Judgement Yard, Jamaica - Scratchylus is the father of 8 year old rising star Empress Reggae who was recently featured for her poetry as a part of Irie FM's 2012 Marcus Garvey Earthstrong Celebration. Most recently Scratchylus & Empress Reggae has be ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 5:19PM
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The founder and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund Marian Wright Edelman will bring to remembrance the great legacy of Alcorn State University as she delivers the keynote address at the 2013 Heritage Convocation in the historic Oakland Memorial Chape ...
Posted Friday, January 11th 2013 at 2:36PM
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THE AWARD WINNING OUR STORY MOVIE starring SIZZLA KALONJI, EMPRESS REGGAE, SCRATCHYLUS mov YouTube
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Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 8:15PM
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Alcorn’s Myrlie Evers has accepted President Barack Obama’s invitation to deliver the invocation at his public inauguration on January 21. Evers, a champion for civil rights and the wife of civil rights martyr Medgar Wiley Evers '52, is the first lay ...
Posted Tuesday, January 8th 2013 at 3:05PM
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The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) today made a new appointment to their governing structure. President, Dr. Billy C. Hawkins of Talladega College was appointed to the Board of Directors.
Dr. Hawkins has been president of Talladega Colleg ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 4:22PM
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Talladega College will celebrate their spring semester Opening Convocation, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, on Thursday, January 24, 2013. The scheduled speaker for the event is Congresswoman Terri A. Sewell. The Annual Freedom March will ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 2:42PM
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Capital One has approximately 3,000 open positions across the company with a large hiring need in Texas, Virginia, New Jersey, and New York. If you are looking to start a new career in 2013, then look a little closer at Capital One.
Capital One, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, is a divers ...
Posted Friday, January 4th 2013 at 7:49PM
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Community activist, historian, and former assistant principal, Mrs. Enid Pinkney won a major national award along with 22 other recipients in Washington state last month.
Mrs. Pinkney, a 1953 Talladega College graduate won the Peter H. Brink Award for Individual Achievement in Historic Preservati ...
Posted Friday, December 21st 2012 at 3:44PM
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The Allstate Corporation announced that Kermit R. Crawford, Walgreen Co. president of pharmacy, health and wellness, has been elected to its board of directors, effective January 30, 2013. Crawford's election will increase the number of Allstate boar ...
Posted Wednesday, December 19th 2012 at 5:48PM
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Texas Southern University Student Regent, Juan A. Sorto, has been selected as a finalist for the Houston Texans Community Quarterback Award. The Houston Texans partner with the United Way of Greater Houston to recognize work by outstanding volunteer ...
Posted Wednesday, December 19th 2012 at 1:57PM
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Gratitude is at the heart of every season. And at Alcorn, gratitude and hope has been spread throughout the communities of Lorman, Natchez and Vicksburg. As Alcorn continues its tradition of holiday giving and helping local families in need.
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Posted Wednesday, December 19th 2012 at 1:55PM
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Alcorn President, M. Christopher Brown II, Ph.D., has been appointed to serve as the Grand Orator for The Most Worshipful Stringer Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Prince Hall Affiliated, Jurisdiction of Mississippi, by Grand Master Maurice F. ...
Posted Monday, December 17th 2012 at 8:21PM
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The men of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. at Virginia State University donate their time to raise six million dollars to help benefit students.
Please click here to donate: https://online.vsu.edu/NetCommunity/SSLPage.aspx?&pid=206&srcid=257
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Posted Monday, December 17th 2012 at 5:33PM
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by Ronald Roach
In an initiative to create schools exemplifying 21st century innovation, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), a leading HBCU advocacy and support organization, and its member universities are collaborating to establish colleg ...
Posted Monday, December 17th 2012 at 5:08PM
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$25,000 Verizon Foundation Grant to Support Bowie State’s Sustainability Initiatives
Bowie State University will launch an advocacy campaign to engage students, faculty and staff in a series of initiatives to reduce campus energy consumption and ...
Posted Monday, December 17th 2012 at 4:56PM
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A Sophomore from the Rio Grande Valley has taken Texas Southern Golf to another level. Kassandra Rivera played her way to a top 10 national ranking in NCAA Division I women’s golf.
Rivera’s 71.63 average puts her in the company of players from p ...
Posted Monday, December 17th 2012 at 2:27PM
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Alcorn State University was recently approved to charter a chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society. Golden Key is the world’s largest collegiate honor society with more than 400 chapters at colleges and universities around the world.
In ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 2:40PM
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Bowie State University students will soon receive training needed to enter the high-demand cybersecurity field and help close the nation’s workforce gap, thanks to a $453,000 grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration to establish a part ...
Posted Friday, December 14th 2012 at 2:14PM
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The Heritage Sports Radio Network (HSRN) will broadcast plenty of exciting HBCU basketball games. The broadcasts will be national on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and on local stations across the country.
HSRN 2012-2013 HBCU Basketball Broadcast Sched ...
Posted Thursday, December 13th 2012 at 2:59PM
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When the 508 Southern students walk across the graduation stage Friday, ready to start new chapters in their lives, among them will be a young man hailed by the school as academic prodigy.
Polite Stewart Jr., a physics major, began his university ...
Posted Thursday, December 13th 2012 at 2:46PM
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Alcorn President M. Christopher Brown II has released two books, “Educating African American Males: Contexts for Consideration, Possibilities for Practice” and “African American Males and Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity”.
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Posted Friday, December 7th 2012 at 6:02PM
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Every year, at Xavier University of Louisiana, the fraternities and sororities have a neophyte show where all the new initiates are revealed to the rest of the student body.
This is a video displaying the Beta Tau chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraterni ...
Posted Friday, December 7th 2012 at 5:15PM
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The Gulf Coast and Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference announced the All-Conference team for the 2012 season on Thursday. Jose Luis Rodriquez, Soloman Mensah and Rafael Mattos each received all-conference nods for Talladega College.
Rodri ...
Posted Friday, December 7th 2012 at 3:36PM
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Bowie State University (BSU) will launch a campaign to educate students, faculty and alumni about the importance of energy management and gain their support for a campus-wide initiative to reduce energy consumption by 20 percent over the next three y ...
Posted Thursday, December 6th 2012 at 5:35PM
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Five Lincoln University(PA) students from the Greater Philadelphia area were awarded scholarships from the Ducky Birts Foundation at a Thursday morning ceremony held at the University’s International Cultural Center.
The recipients, who each recei ...
Posted Thursday, December 6th 2012 at 5:23PM
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