Talents in sports and the arts often hide the very ordinary lives that of mega-celebrities. Such is true for star quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, who will be leading the San Francisco 49ers into battle against the Baltimore Ravens in Super Bowl LXVII. ...
Posted Monday, February 4th 2013 at 2:20PM
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BRITISH singjay Scratchylus and singer Junior Reid unite in song for the children with Dem Caan Visit The Frontline.
Scratchylus, a Londoner of Jamaican parentage, is excited about the project which he says is timely.
"What we are bringing fo ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 5:39PM
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http://www.televisionjamaica.com/Programmes/VideoAlley.aspx/Videos/23784
Here is the video to the recording of TVJ Video Alley with Empress Suzie Q, STARRING INNA DE YARD ALLSTARS, EARL CHINNA SMITH, KIDDUS I, RAS MICHEAL, EMPRESS REGGAE, SCRATC ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 4:28PM
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Alcorn State University is working with Natchez Inc., a partnership expected to produce more than 20 creative jobs in Southwest Mississippi.
Using a $10,000 Mississippi Development Authority Creative Economy Grant, Alcorn and Natchez Inc. will par ...
Posted Friday, February 1st 2013 at 2:21PM
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By Mike Freeman | National NFL Insider
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick will soon attempt something only one other person has done in almost half a century of Super Bowls: be a starting quarterback of African-American descent to wi ...
Posted Thursday, January 31st 2013 at 2:34PM
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Our Story will be broadcasting exclusively on Video Alley, with Empress Suzie Q, TV J on Saturday, January 26th, 2013 at 6PM from Inna De Yard.
STARRING INNA DE YARD ALLSTARS, EARL CHINNA SMITH, KIDDUS I, RAS MICHEAL, EMPRESS REGGAE, SCRATCHYLUS, ...
Posted Friday, January 25th 2013 at 4:08PM
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50 Years of the Dream
by Asher Lewis
Posted Jan 18th, 2013
2013 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most moving and poignant events of the last century - the delivery of the “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. have insp ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 5:23PM
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By Dawn Dugan, Salary.com contributing writer.
For job seekers, the resume may be the most important document they need. After all, what's on that simple piece of paper can mean the difference between landing an interview and landing in the circular file.
While most job seekers concentrate on ...
Posted Friday, January 18th 2013 at 2:39PM
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Fourteen Alcorn students have been selected to witness the nation's government in action and attend the quadrennial presidential inauguration January 17-22, 2013. Their trip will include participating in community service projects during "A National ...
Posted Thursday, January 17th 2013 at 5:43PM
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Fighting the Good Fight -- Leukemia _ Carol Martin Hicks
Carol is in the fight of her life and needs a bone marrow transplant.... Carol was recently diagnosed with a form of leukemia called "Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia" (ALL).
In bone marrow tra ...
Posted Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 5:10PM
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National Museum of American Jewish History Honors Legacy of Martin Luther King on Monday, Jan. 21
Museum to be OPEN and FREE with Family Activities!
The National Museum of American Jewish History is OPEN and FREE on MLK Day, a day filled with ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 5:14PM
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When Texas Southern University Student Regent Juan Sorto arrives in Washington, D.C. January 21st for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, he will not only be there to bask in the experience of watching the democratic process at work, b ...
Posted Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 3:04PM
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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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Willa Brown Chappell was a pioneering aviator who co-founded the National Airmen’s Association of America, an organization whose mission was to get African Americans into the United States Air Force.
Inspired by Bessie Coleman, Chappell (then know ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 4:03PM
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We all know about the famous Tuskegee Airmen, but have you ever thought about women being pilots in those times as well? Start thinking and do your research on these extraordinary women. Today we honor the often overlooked Tuskegee Airwomen.
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 4:01PM
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Anderson, Charles A. "Chief" (1907-1996)
Eleanor Roosevelt and Charles Anderson, April 1941
On April 19, 1941, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee Institute. During her visit she asked Chief Anderson if African Americans could really navi ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:59PM
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The Tuskegee Airmen were dedicated, determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military airmen, at a time when there were many people who thought that black men lacked intelligence, skill,
courage and patriotism. They came fro ...
Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:57PM
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama greet Tuskegee Airmen prior... to a screening of Red Tails Movie in the Family Theater of the White House, Jan. 13, 2012.
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Posted Monday, January 7th 2013 at 3:55PM
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