By The Admin on February 23, 2011
The 2011 Urban Invitational presented by the U.S. Army will feature three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the first time in the tournament’s four-year history. HBCUs Bethune-Cookman University (Daytona Beach, Florida), Grambling State University (Grambling, Louisiana) and Southern University (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) will participate in the round-robin, collegiate baseball tournament with NCAA Division-I [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on February 23, 2011
The AFRO
- It’s easy to grow bored with public opinion polls, so many are there to consider. But, occasionally one comes along that rivets the attention. Like a new one by the Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University that shows the people who have been among the hardest hit by the country’s economic [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on February 23, 2011
CVS/pharmacy and UNCF (the United Negro College Fund) have announced that they are partnering to celebrate Black History Month. As part of the partnership, CVS/pharmacy has committed $50,000 in support of UNCF initiatives, including the UNCF Campaign For Emergency Student Aid which helps thousands of recession-impacted college students at 39 historically black colleges and [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on February 23, 2011
Auburn Journal
- The three-dozen souls whose bodies reside in graves marked “Unknown” at Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery have gone to their eternal reward but efforts to remove a racial epithet from their markers remain in limbo, stymied by word of a threatened lawsuit.
The burial plots of deceased African American residents, mostly Gold Rush miners, were [...]
Posted in Race
By The Admin on February 23, 2011
New York Times
- I mentioned in a recent post that students who choose to attend a historically black college instead of a more selective college may be hurting their future earnings prospects. There’s more evidence for this finding than I knew. A 2007 study, by Roland Fryer and Michael Greenstone, came to a similar conclusion.
The [...]
Posted in Education
