Panthers from several sports are recipients of the 2017 Arthur Ashe Sports Scholar Award.
The award is named after the famed African American tennis player who was the lone African American male to ever win the singles championship at Wimbledon, the US Open, as well as the Australian Open.
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Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2017 at 9:11AM
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Prairie View A&M University has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy to form the HBCU Clean Energy Consortium. This new agreement will focus on the following: bringing solar energy to working communities, developing research in innovative technologies at HBCUs, and increasing ...
Posted Wednesday, May 10th 2017 at 9:00AM
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School is out, which means the beginning of summer camps at Alcorn State University is right around the corner.
Alcorn’s School of Agriculture and Applied Sciences has a number of fun summer camps for students to participate in. Starting in June, ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 6:02PM
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ASU Board of Trustees member, Brenda Brown Hunter, was instrumental in making this happen -
Two students in Alabama State University's Forensics Sciences program are among a handful of first-ever students nationwide to be selected to participate i ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 6:01PM
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Today, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressman Cedric Richmond (D-La.), and the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), issued the following statement in response to Presiden ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 5:58PM
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Undefeated boxing champion, daughter of the legendary Muhammad Ali, author and TV host Laila Ali will be the keynote speaker at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s May 13 main commencement ceremony, school officials announced today.
The ceremony begins at 8:30 a.m. at the ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 11:01AM
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Albany State University theatre student, Krista Barrett, will engage in speech therapy research this summer at the University of Maryland, College Park, one of the country’s leading research institutions.
The Summer Research Initiative (SRI) is being held from June 5 to July 28 on the university’ ...
Posted Tuesday, May 9th 2017 at 10:50AM
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Dr. Gregory A. McPherson will perform an original score at the international enclave in Norway.
Alabama State University alumnus and composer, Dr. Gregory A. McPherson, has recently accepted an invitation to conduct one of his original pieces at t ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 7:59PM
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Johnson C. Smith University’s Division of Institutional Advancement is pleased to announce the appointment of Antia Dawkins as the assistant director of marketing in the Department of University Communications and Marketing.
Dawkins is responsibl ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 6:31PM
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Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf will bring the Keynote Address when Cheyney University’s Class of 2017 receives its long-awaited academic degrees on Saturday, May 13th on the University’s Historic Quadrangle. The 11 am ceremony will take place before ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 6:25PM
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Alabama State University's College of Business Administration (COBA) held its annual awards banquet recently in the John Garrick Hardy Student Center ballroom and honored students, alumni and business leaders for a myriad of accomplishments.
One ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 6:23PM
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Hampton University Senior Jordyn Hawkins-Rippie is by all accounts an over achiever. With prestigious accolades, programs and internships under his belt, the 22-year-old has accomplished more than most middle-aged adults. But while titles and awards have earned him the right to boast, his gentle, ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 4:30PM
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Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) have received increased funding as hoped for but the money did not come from a White House push. The push was through Congress according to Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond (D-LA). ...
Posted Monday, May 8th 2017 at 4:18PM
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ABOVE: (L-R) Forward Times Publisher/CEO Karen Carter Richards, esteemed photojournalist Earlie Hudnall and Forward Times Associate Editor Jeffrey L. Boney, with TSU students Nicole Tall and Naeemah McCants, who are both journalism majors
The Texa ...
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