NORFOLK, Va. - The official seedings and matchups were announced Friday morning, March 5, for the 2010 MEAC Basketball Tournament, which runs next Tuesday through Saturday at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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Posted Wednesday, March 10th 2010 at 10:05AM
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March 5, 2010
By Ed Hill, Jr.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As a point guard for the Georgetown women’s basketball program, Niki Reid Geckeler proved to be one of the best in school history. A four year starter, she left her mark on the progr ...
Posted Monday, March 8th 2010 at 4:20PM
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February 28, 2010
BATON ROUGE, LA – The Alabama State women’s and men’s teams swept the 2010 SWAC Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Carl Maddox Fieldhouse.
The defending champion Lady Hornets won in impressive fashio ...
Posted Monday, March 1st 2010 at 11:54AM
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When then Senator Barack Obama broke the glass ceiling of electoral politics and became the first African American to ...
Posted Tuesday, February 23rd 2010 at 12:34PM
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-- Also Secures Advertising Deals With Tide and U.S. Census Bureau --
Columbus, OH - Lee Moss Media, an award-winning African American marketing, public relations, and diversity recruiting firm, has hit the ground running in 2010. The 10-year old ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2010 at 1:23PM
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The McGraw-Hill Companies was recently names a “Top 50 Employer” by Equal Opportunity Magazine. Published since 1968, the magazine is a career-guidance and recruitment publication distributed to more than 1,400 university placement offices ,leadi ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2010 at 11:27AM
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Florida A&M University will become the first HBCU to send a team to Haiti, when a group leaves this week on behalf of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Henry Lewis, dean of the college, will be traveling to Haiti along with three or four pha ...
Posted Sunday, February 14th 2010 at 10:10PM
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February 13, 2010
HAMPTON, VA – Saint Augustine’s College swept the 2010 Indoor Track titles Saturday (Feb. 13) at the Boo Williams Sportsplex in Hampton, VA. In school history, today’s victories marked the 25th CIAA Indoor title for the SAC men and the 16th CIAA Indoor title for th ...
Posted Sunday, February 14th 2010 at 10:07PM
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Hampton, Va. –Hampton University will host the 32nd Annual Conference on the Black Family on March 17-19. The theme for this year’s conference is “The Holistic Black Family: Mind, Body and Spirit” and will feature discussions ...
Posted Friday, February 12th 2010 at 10:56AM
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February 5, 2010
FAYETTEVILLE - In the moments after Fayetteville State's 82-66 win over Livingstone on Thursday (Feb 4), Shacovia Sheppard was worried about how many turnovers she had.
First-year head coach Eva Patterson-Heath scanned her stat sheet and told the junior forward t ...
Posted Sunday, February 7th 2010 at 2:48PM
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Huntsville, Ala. ---- Although small in stature, Dr. Tessie D. Bush of Detroit, Mich., was a ferocious defender of Alabama A&M University and tirelessly encouraged her fellow alumni to step up their support for “the greatest school on earth.” Sh ...
Posted Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 at 11:26AM
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Huntsville, Ala. ---- A joint Alabama A&M University and Huntsville Police Department law enforcement team have made an arrest in a recent firearm incident which officers say occurred along Meridian Street early Sunday morning, January 24, around 3:3 ...
Posted Tuesday, January 26th 2010 at 9:56AM
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By Antonio Hairston -- Black College Wire
Gregory Souvenir/The Famuan
Rodeline Felix of the Haitian Cultural Club
FAMU Raises Funds for Haitian Student in Need
During a Haiti relief program in Lee Hall, a Florida A&M staff member a ...
Posted Friday, January 22nd 2010 at 10:56AM
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January 13, 2010
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., - The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) announced today the five members of its’ 2010 Hall of Fame Class that will be honored during a banquet on Friday, March 12, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the M.C. Benton, Jr. Convention Center in Winston ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 2:12PM
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January 5, 2010
DURHAM, N.C. – North Carolina Central University head women’s basketball coach Joli Robinson notched her 200th career win as the Lady Eagles (3-11) claimed a 67-58 victory over Winston-Salem State University (2-11) Tue ...
Posted Thursday, January 14th 2010 at 2:03PM
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January 5, 2010
Atlanta, Ga. - Clark Atlanta University has removed the interim tag for Athletics Director Dr. Tamica Smith Jones effective January 4, 2010.
The Atlanta native was appointed Liaison to the Office of the President for At ...
Posted Monday, January 11th 2010 at 2:16PM
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January 7, 2010
Hartley, DE - The Heritage Sports Radio Network (HSRN) will tip-off the 2010 Basketball Season with the CIAA match-up (Men's & Women's) between the St. Augustine's Falcons and the Trojans of Virginia State on Monday, January 11, 2010 in Petersburg, Virginia. HSRN's ...
Posted Sunday, January 10th 2010 at 8:20AM
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By Vanessa Philogene -- Black College Wire
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Have we finally moved on from racial prejudice in this country? If it’s OK to have a black man in the White House, what about a black man in the embrace of a white wom ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 10:33AM
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By Jaliza Braxton -- Black College Wire
The Spartan Echo
Army Lt. Nichole Braxton
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Imagine not being able to see your brother or sister for months because he or she is at war.
Last February, my sister, U.S. Army Lt. Nichole Braxton, was deployed to I ...
Posted Tuesday, January 5th 2010 at 10:30AM
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Graduating High School Seniors Can Win Full Scholarship to a Black College
(Dallas – Dec. 10, 2009) Winners of the Tom Joyner Foundat ...
Posted Monday, January 4th 2010 at 9:51AM
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January 1, 2010
Whitehall, OH
Former Virginia Union basketball coach Dave Robbins will be one of eight inductees in the Class of 2010 of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
Robbins led the Panthers to three Division II national titles and his 713-194 career records spands three d ...
Posted Sunday, January 3rd 2010 at 11:00AM
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An Alabama A&M Bulldog and a Florida A&M Rattler unite in love. Gabriel Sheffield, spring 2007 Alabama A&M University graduate, proposes to Jasmine Harris, fall 2007 Florida A&M University graduate, in the pages of Essence magazine. With a heartfelt letter to Essence Magazine, Gabriel was ente ...
Posted Tuesday, December 29th 2009 at 3:35PM
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By Matt Beatty -- Black College Wire
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Devin Dixon
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Opening for rap artists such as Drake, Ludacris, The Lox and Young Jeezy means either you have serious lyrical skills or you are the luckiest person in the world.
When it com ...
Posted Sunday, December 27th 2009 at 2:44PM
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December 14, 2009
Final SBN Poll
(Pittsburgh, PA) – The South Carolina State University Bulldogs have captured the 2009 SBN Sports Black College National Football Championship. The Bulldogs posted a 10-2 record on the way to winning The SBN Jake Gaither National Championship Trop ...
Posted Sunday, December 20th 2009 at 12:24PM
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Hampton, Va. - Hampton University was recently awarded two grants totaling more than $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. The cross-discipline grants both seek to increase retention efforts and the production of minority professionals in the fields of science, technology, enginee ...
Posted Thursday, December 17th 2009 at 4:34PM
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