Do you want people to think you are intelligent? Has someone ever told you “You’re much smarter than you look.”?
No doubt it can sting to be perceived as less intelligent, particularly when you never had a chance to showcase your intellect in the first place! And while this might be a socia ...
Posted Monday, June 12th 2017 at 2:56PM
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Fans of Virginia Union University Athletics, we are gearing up for an exciting season of football. You can purchase 2017 season tickets for the discounted price of just $85! The season tickets are on sale NOW in the VUU Department of Athletics in the Belgium Building.
The season tickets will a ...
Posted Monday, June 12th 2017 at 1:54PM
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Clark Atlanta University (CAU) has named Tomisha Brock as Director of University Bands and Assistant Professor of Music. This historic announcement makes Brock the first woman to serve as band director and the first female director in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC).
“I am ...
Posted Monday, June 12th 2017 at 1:42PM
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The Alabama A&M men's basketball team will officially kick off the summer by hosting Donnie Marsh's Basketball camp, which will be held from June 12-15 at the T. M. Elmore Gym.
The camp is open to boys and girls in the 2nd through 12th grade and will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. throughout the week. ...
Posted Sunday, June 11th 2017 at 8:03PM
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Gabriela Garcia and Tashara Parker, KYTX
After nearly a decade of dedicated service to her students, Reverend Orenthia Mason is retiring.
A self-proclaimed, "North Tyler girl", Mason graduated at the top of her class when she completed her degree from Texas College in Elementary Education in ...
Posted Sunday, June 11th 2017 at 7:58PM
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Art projects that center on building community pride have helped reduce tension among elementary and middle school students, and now their works are on display at Jackson State University through June 30 thanks to a partnership between JSU and Jackson Public Schools.
The students’ artwork i ...
Posted Wednesday, June 7th 2017 at 2:54PM
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On this day we honor our Military men and women who make our country civil.
But least we not forget the family that stands with each Soldier!
It takes a support system to get through the battle our Soldiers faced and will face during service.
Families take on the discipline the Soldiers are tau ...
Posted Monday, May 29th 2017 at 11:25AM
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On May 25th, a few of the HBCUConnect.com team members land in Baltimore to host a special recruitment event sponsored by Amazon's fulfillment team! ...
Posted Saturday, May 27th 2017 at 11:51AM
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BY OLIVIA S. GOODHEART
Five Jackson State University W.E.B. Du Bois and Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey Honors College students used a combination of inventiveness, partnership and hard work to win the fifth annual Up to Us campus competition. Students from 75 colleges and universities around the coun ...
Posted Thursday, May 25th 2017 at 10:09AM
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HBCU graduates continue to come up with innovative ways to brand practical, everyday services as their own and LaQuita Foreman is no exception to this new phenomenon. A D.C. native, LaQuita started her professional journey in 2008, while attending Saint Augustine’s University. A woman of great expr ...
Posted Thursday, May 25th 2017 at 10:06AM
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Actor Saint Ranson is preparing for his role as legendary singer Wilson Pickett in the Amazon Independent film, "In the midnight hours". Ronson was selected to portray Pickett after 8 years of casting and scouting efforts by producer and director Stanley V. Henson, Jr. Saint Ranson was born on Decem ...
Posted Wednesday, May 24th 2017 at 11:31AM
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Erick Willie, the first tubist to graduate from the University of the Virgin Islands with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, immediately put his degree to use upon graduating in 2014. He started to teach music at Arthur Richards Junior High School on St. Croix, and has been introducing youngster ...
Posted Wednesday, May 24th 2017 at 11:08AM
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The Virginia Union University women's basketball program has announced that Shareka and Shameka McNeill have signed National Letters of Intent to play for the Lady Panthers beginning in the in 2017-18 season.
While at Harding University High in Charlotte, N.C., both scored 1,000 points each in ...
Posted Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 at 10:37AM
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Eleven Southern University graduate students were left with nothing but the clothes on their back after a fire broke out at their apartment complex on Highland Road in Baton Rouge on May 6, 2017. At least five of the students were candidates in the May 12th Spring 2017 Commencement. The students wer ...
Posted Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 at 10:28AM
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By ADD SEYMOUR JR.
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The newest group of Morehouse Men must lead the charge of a new, post-Obama era, CNN political analyst Van Jones told the Class of 2017 during Morehouse College’s 133rd Commencement ceremony Sunday.
“You graduate as the first Morehouse Men t ...
Posted Tuesday, May 23rd 2017 at 10:23AM
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Shian Williams, a communication disorders graduate student from Stone Mountain, Ga., was selected to receive the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship.
Williams is among 23 North Carolina recipients who will work in the health field next year learning to effectively address the social factors that impact ...
Posted Monday, May 22nd 2017 at 1:50PM
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The National Black Theatre Festival® (NBTF) this year will highlight the work of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University resident costumer designer Gregory Horton, who is being recognized at the event’s opening night gala for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design.
NBTF is t ...
Posted Monday, May 22nd 2017 at 1:40PM
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This year the UNCF awarded B-CU $100,000 to provide graduating seniors the opportunity to graduate with a zero account balance so that they could advance into the workforce without an outstanding balance with the university. Last week nearly 800 family and friends shared their excitement as 374 stud ...
Posted Monday, May 22nd 2017 at 1:38PM
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By Molly Bloom - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Second chances were invented for kids like Keith Glass. Third, fourth, and fifth chances too.
Glass started high school at South Atlanta with ambitions of being a rapper. He invested in a set of gold grills. As for college, “All I heard was t ...
Posted Friday, May 19th 2017 at 10:50AM
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The Department of Nursing at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) has been granted full approval by the Arkansas State Board of Nursing (ASBN) for the pre-licensure (generic) program. The approval extends through 2020.
“The new nursing program at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluf ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:26PM
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Tennessee State University will receive nearly half a million dollars from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expand its research on meat goat production.
The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture on May 16 announced 47 grants totaling almost $17.5 million to improve sustainable ag ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:20PM
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Almost anyone on the Savannah State campus these days will recognize Carl Sneed. He is the guy with a mesh fishing hat and a big grin. One reason for the eternal smile is that Sneed returned to SSU after a trip around the solar system – at least via his work.
A Savannah native, Sneed was always t ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:17PM
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Contact: Tenisha Taylor Bell
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tbell@cau.edu
ATLANTA (May 17, 2017) Clark Atlanta University will bestow four doctoral degrees honoris causa during the 2017 Commencement Convocation Monday, May 22, 8 a.m. at Panther Stadium, 735 Beckwith St. SW. “These four pioneers were selecte ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:12PM
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Virginia Union University's Taylor White, who was the 2015-16 CIAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was chosen to the All-CIAA Volleyball Team in 2016 was honored as Co-Valedictorian of the Class of 2017 at the University's Commencement on Saturday, May 13, in Richmond, Va.
White, who was co-vale ...
Posted Thursday, May 18th 2017 at 4:09PM
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HBCU Records, a student-run indie record label formed by the University's Curb Institute, is preparing to release its first mixtape fall 2017. The mixtape, which is currently untitled will feature, Daniel "DJ DGlove" Glover, a student from the College of Liberal Arts who will mix on the production a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 17th 2017 at 9:41AM
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