By Michael Russell:
A state supported, two year public and historically black college, Bishop State community College is located in Mobile , Alabama , in United States . Predominantly black college in the small urban setting, with commuter campus, ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 6:11PM
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By Jeff Sadow:
As the two bills to merge Southern University New Orleans and the University of New Orleans begin wending their ways through the legislative process, it’s helpful to recognize the insufficiency of contentions made of those who o ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 6:01PM
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By PR Newswire:
The Imagine Fund, a private scholarship organization created to offset the impact of the 2006 Michigan ballot proposal that restricted affirmative action in the public sector, recently awarded a scholarship to a Michigan State Univ ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 5:52PM
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By Ed Cassiere:
Xavier University of Louisiana's Zach Taylor was selected NAIA Men's Tennis Player of the Week for April 25-May 1. He also won a similar honor from the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference.
Taylor, a junior from Monroe, La., and a g ...
Posted Friday, May 6th 2011 at 5:46PM
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By The Republic:
The Senate Education Committee has delayed plans to debate the merger of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans.
The committee had scheduled a Thursday hearing on the divisive proposal, but its ch ...
Posted Thursday, May 5th 2011 at 12:16PM
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By Ashley Griffin:
Looking around the N.C. Central University, you sometimes might think you're at a women's college.
For every male student at NCCU there are about two female students. And the gender imbalance is not just here on the verdant g ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 2:47PM
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By Kristen Briscoe:
Howard University's Mock Trial team will be advancing to the Championship Round of Nationals after both squads competed in the opening rounds this past weekend.
After being the first Historically Black College to ever win a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 2:39PM
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By Ryan J. Rudd:
Andrew Young, a former U.S. Ambassador and civil rights activist stressed the importance of voting, provided encouragement and reflected on his civil rights experience during a lecture at Prairie View A&M University.
When the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 2:31PM
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By Josephine Nicholas:
“Statistics show that 85% of business success is connected to people skills,” says Josephine Nicholas, PR Agent with Insert Catchy Headlines, and a certified Business Protocol and Etiquette instructor based out of Ann Ar ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 2:13PM
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By Joye Griffin Mary Williams:
UNCF (United Negro College Fund) today announced that the nation's largest scholarship program, the Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program, has awarded good-through-graduation college scholarships to this year's coh ...
Posted Wednesday, May 4th 2011 at 12:44PM
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By Chris Mudarri:
Area history comes alive this week with a film premier kicking off the second national Rosenwald School Conference hosted by UNCW.
“Every setting for us was a learning setting,” Pender County Training School alumna Ida Da ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 5:11PM
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By Monica Hernandez:
On Easter Sunday, lawmakers around the state were gearing up to battle it out in Baton Rouge. The 2011 legislative session begins Monday.
And one of the most contentious issues is the proposed merger of UNO and SUNO.
"Ou ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 5:04PM
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By Ryan Watkins:
Spelman College will host a summit this Friday, April 29, examining gender and sexual politics at historically black colleges. The summit is being organized by the university's Women's Research and Resource Center.
“The summi ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 5:00PM
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By Adrienne Philips:
Congratulations to Mr. Jonas Tellis, of Birmingham, Alabama, who was accepted into the Early Childhood Services Master’s Program at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Tellis who is majoring in Child Care Ma ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 4:50PM
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By Charlene Mikaelian:
Dante Lee, the 29 year old Internet media mogul who is the founder of Diversity City Media and the co-founder of Lee Moss Media, has officially launched his first overseas business venture. Lee has opened an office in downtown Manila, Philippines - the country's capital - ...
Posted Thursday, April 28th 2011 at 4:41PM
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Hosted by: Detroit HBCU Network
Come join the DETROIT HBCU NETWORK to help us to celebrate our 2nd Annual HBCU ALUMNI WEEKKEND!
The Detroit HBCU Network seeks to collectively carry on the spirit of the black college experience in the Metro Detr ...
Posted Friday, April 15th 2011 at 3:23PM
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By Kimberly Nordyke:
Bounce TV, being billed as "the nation's first-ever over-the-air broadcast television network designed exclusively for African-American audiences," will air movies, live sporting events, off-net series and original programming ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 3:13PM
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Party with people from NY, ATL, NC, SC, LA, FL, OH, IL, TN, KS, MI, TX, CA, NJ, CT, KY, IN, VA, and other countries as we invade Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic for year number 4!
As we say every year...What goes on in the Dominican stays in t ...
Posted Thursday, April 14th 2011 at 2:44PM
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By Adrienne Phillips:
Rust College will celebrate its 145th Commencement, with the graduation of approximately 150 seniors earning their degrees in the fields of English, Mass Communications, Political Science, Social Science, Sociology, Social Wo ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 3:45PM
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By LaRia Land:
The foreign language Bachelor of Arts degree programs will no longer be offered in Spanish and French, and the department will be completely phased out in two years, Goldie Byrd, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Car ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:50PM
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By Ryan J. Rudd – Black College Wire:
Andrew Young, a former U.S. Ambassador and civil rights activist stressed the importance of voting, provided encouragement and reflected on his civil rights experience during a lecture at Prairie View A&M Un ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:45PM
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By Karrie Leonard:
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, said a plan must be formulated now to put black people back to work and resurrect the black economy. There is urgency for a "war on unemployment," Morial said.
T ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:41PM
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By Valerie J. Lewis Coleman:
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, forty students from Trotwood-Madison High School will debut the anthology A Kingdom Waiting: Loss, Triumph and the Young Spirit at the second annual Dayton Book Expo.
The event will be ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:35PM
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The best seats in the house on Wednesday, May 18, 2011, at The Get Motivated Seminar with Rudy Giuliani and Bill Cosby at the Wright State University Nutter Center. Join Rudy and the Dream Team of Expert Trainers for a day that you will never forget. ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 2:13PM
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By James Parks:
Black unemployment rose last month even though the economy created 216,000 jobs.
Even though 216,000 jobs were created in March and the nation’s unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent overall, the jobless rate for blacks ro ...
Posted Wednesday, April 13th 2011 at 1:23PM
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