RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The University of California-Historically Black Colleges and Universities Initiative has awarded UC Riverside a $156,417 grant to mentor and encourage more African American undergraduates to enroll in UC graduate programs. A total of 18 African American students from historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) will spend eight weeks at the Riverside campus […]
NEW YORK– Popular blogger and People.com editor Janet Mock goes on the record in a candid interview revealing that she was in fact born a boy in a recent interview with Marie Claire.
Xerox CEO Ursula Burns, the first African American woman to head a Fortune 500 company, believes it is time to get back to basics when it comes to American schools. “We took our focus away from excellence and performance and accountability,” Burns told CNN’s Soledad O’Brien about the dilemma of science and math education in […]
LONDON– Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, a lecturer in the London School of Economic’s management department is under fire for an article he published on Psychology Today claiming that black women were rated to be less attractive than women of other races.
NEW YORK– May 21, 2011 will mark the end of the world and the second coming of Christ, or at least that’s what some Christian groups believe. For months, Christian network Family radio has trumpeted the coming of judgement day on more than 2,000 ads around world. The network’s president, 89-year-old Harold Camping claims to […]
Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, received the 18th NAACP Springarn Medal on May 20,1932 for his struggle for the education of Blacks, here and Haiti, and for his expression of ideals in his book, What the Negro Thinks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS PERSON VISIT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Montgomery’s former Greyhound Bus Station is reopening as a museum honoring the Freedom Riders on the 50th anniversary of the day they were attacked in Alabama’s capital city. Several of the original Freedom Riders are attending the dedication Friday. One of them, Jim Zwerg of Tucson, Ariz., says the new museum is […]
A teen mom faces life behind bars after she was caught on tape attempting to smother her baby at a Forth Worth Tex. hospital. Shantaniqua Nykole Scott, 18, was convicted Thursday in Forth Worth, after a stunned jury watched video of Scott try to smother her 4-month-old son on two different occasions. VIDEO: http://www.kcentv.com/global/video/videoplayer.js?rnd=612199;hostDomain=www.kcentv.com;playerWidth=485;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=5866888;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.kcentv.com%252Fcategory%252F170056%252Fvideo;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript_EMBEDDEDscript The […]
BROOKLYN-A photo exhibit in Brooklyn, of foster children is helping them find permanent homes. The exhibit is in the busy Atlantic terminal in Brooklyn and the pictures were taken my world known photographers. The New York Daily News reports: For the next month, commuters passing through downtown Brooklyn’s busy Atlantic Terminal will be greeted by […]
The 2nd annual event was held at the Forest Park Golf Center which was the perfect backdrop for this classy event. Guest was treated to delicacy from the South, the Caribbean’s and Vegetarian dishes that would make you swear off meats. Not only where their ample amount of food for all guest […]