By Zahara Hill BLACK VOICES 05/24/2017 As a kid, high school junior Jahmir Smith never had a dream college. But for a number of universities, he’s their dream student. The 17-year-old North Carolina native has already been accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and has received 33 full-ride scholarship
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By ERRIN HAINES WHACK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents from a majority of the country’s historically black colleges and universities are in Washington this week, calling for $25 billion in the upcoming budget to help address priorities including infrastructure, college readiness and financial aid as President Trump prepares to
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By Ayesha Rascoe, Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a measure on Tuesday aimed at boosting government support for the nation’s historically black colleges, a senior White House official said. Trump, a Republican, has pledged to improve the lives of black Americans, who voted overwhelmingly in
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Published: Feb 17, 2017 Vicki Santos | College of Liberal Arts As part of Auburn University’s celebration of Black History Month and the annual speaker’s series of the Africana Studies program in the College of Liberal Arts, author and Harvard faculty member Sarah Lewis will give a free public presentation
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February 8, 2017 Written by Stacie Pierpoint This year’s Black History Month theme “Crisis in Education,” set by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), examines the role that education has played in the history of African Americans from times of slavery, through the Civil War, to
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Published July 4, 2014 On July 4, 1881, educator and activist Booker T. Washington founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, known today as Tuskegee University, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Washington served as the school’s first principal and presided over the first day of class, which was held in a one-room church before
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By: Lawrence WarePosted: June 20, 2016 I was an inquisitive child. My grandmother called me nosy, but I like to think I had an insatiable thirst for knowledge. I would often ask questions that were answered with an, “It’s none of your business.” “Why did he never marry?” “It’s none
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Taryn Finley Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Poet Clint Smith III takes a critical look at the Founding Fathers’ role in oppressing black people in his latest poem entitled “History Reconsidered.” His piece served as a letter to five of the United States presidents who owned slaves, George Washington,
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By Ed Adamczyk | June 15, 2016 at 8:16 AM The iconic African-American magazines were sold to a Black owned Texas private equity firm. CHICAGO, June 15 (UPI) — Johnson Publishing sold African-American lifestyle magazines Ebony and Jet to a Texas private equity firm. The family-owned company, which has published
Continue readingMarch 01, 2013 1:00 am • By SHERRYL M. PETERS, T&D Correspondent A workshop on preserving personal and community histories was recently held at Williams Chapel AME Church in Orangeburg. “Preserving Orangeburg African-American Buildings, Sites and Culture” focused on researching available resources to aid in preservation projects and was presented
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