When Ellen saw 8-year-old Sophia Grace and her 5-year-old cousin Rosie perform on Youtube, she wanted them on the show right away. All the way from England, these two amazing girls performed a Nicki Minaj song, Super Bass, and were all surprised when ...
Posted Friday, October 14th 2011 at 1:51PM
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College JUNIORS and SOPHOMORES: Opportunity For Students To Interview In Person For Summer Internships With Unilever
Interview for summer internships and network with Unilever employees at the second annual Diversity Leadership Conference (UDLC) hosted by Unilever on February 23 -24, 2012. ...
Posted Thursday, October 13th 2011 at 4:35PM
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Joining forces with nationally syndicated radio personality and education advocate Tom Joyner, Ford is helping college students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities further their education through the “All In Technology” scholarship ...
Posted Thursday, October 13th 2011 at 2:11PM
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The 105 Voices Of History is a Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Choir National Initiative created to promote diversity in America's national venues for the Arts. It provides a National Platform to increase the exposure of all HBCUs ...
Posted Wednesday, October 12th 2011 at 10:54AM
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The HBCU Network (www.HBCUNetwork.com), a 24hour 365 days-a-year network dedicated to the education, entertainment, sports, and lifestyles of the 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) across the United States, launches the first i ...
Posted Tuesday, October 4th 2011 at 3:31PM
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Harris-Stowe State University will hold a special naming ceremony for its Midtown campus, Friday, September 30, 2011, at 9 a.m. The university is honoring outgoing president Dr. Henry Givens, Jr. by naming the main campus, located at 3026 Laclede Ave ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 4:12PM
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Alcorn will honor outstanding students, alumni, faculty and staff at its 2011 Founder’s Day Convocation in the historic Oakland Memorial Chapel at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 27.
Myrlie Evers, a champion for civil rights and the wife of civil ...
Posted Thursday, September 22nd 2011 at 3:07PM
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The Alcorn family is proud of George Osei, a junior majoring in the radiation technology/health physics program in the Department of Advanced Technologies, for being the recipient of the prestigious US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fellowship ...
Posted Friday, September 9th 2011 at 3:14PM
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You're shopping at the mall with your children when one of them suddenly disappears. A quick search of the nearby area is unsuccessful. What do you do?
Now there's a free new tool from the FBI that can help. Our just launched Child ID app - the f ...
Posted Tuesday, September 6th 2011 at 7:32PM
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Coming off a record summer enrollment of over 1,900 students, Alcorn kicked off its new academic year by welcoming a record breaking freshman class of more than 1,500 students and 495 transfer students. “Alcorn is working hard to meet the standards s ...
Posted Friday, September 2nd 2011 at 2:31PM
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Alcorn State University Extension/Research and Demonstration Farm will hold its annual Sweet Potato Jamboree/Fall Vegetable Field Day on Thursday, September 22, 2011, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., 294 Grainger Dorsey Rd, Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
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Posted Thursday, September 1st 2011 at 2:26PM
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On Monday the public gets its first glimpse of a new attraction on the National Mall – the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. More than 25 years in the making, the King Memorial is set amid four acres of cherry trees on the northwest shore of the Tidal ...
Posted Monday, August 22nd 2011 at 2:08PM
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Kanye West (#4 overall) topped the list of the most unliked personalities in the US on a recent Ipsos poll. Over 2,000 US adults were polled to pick America's favorite and most trusted personalities. These were those who were at the other end of the ...
Posted Friday, August 19th 2011 at 4:12PM
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Denzel Washington (#2 overall) topped the list of African-Americans on a recent Ipsos list which polled over 2,000 US adults as America's favorite and most trusted personalities, and the one whose endorsement of a company would be most likely to driv ...
Posted Friday, August 19th 2011 at 4:02PM
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The Maroon & White Fund, a 501(c)(3) support organization, will host a national tribute to the Morehouse College Glee Club's "100 Years in Song" with a weekend celebration to include the launch of the "Power of Ten" scholarship fundraising initiative ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 6:42PM
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Dr. Dalton H. McAfee, extension administrator at Alcorn State University, was recently appointed to the board of directors of the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC), according to Dr. Bobby Moser, board chair.
Dr. McAfee will serve on th ...
Posted Thursday, August 18th 2011 at 3:56PM
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Alcorn President and university members to appear on Talking Sports Live with Deuce McAllister and Rob Jay
WHAT: President M. Christopher Brown II of Alcorn State University along with Vice President for Institutional Affairs Marcus Ward, Head Men ...
Posted Tuesday, August 9th 2011 at 2:53PM
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Students, Alum and Supporters of the HBCU Nation we need your help!
Lets show the world that you want the first ever HBCU Television Network in your channel line-up. It's time to showcase the magnificent 174-year old HBCU brand to the world!
Ho ...
Posted Friday, August 5th 2011 at 5:19PM
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Last week concluded the first National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) Accounting Career Awareness Program (ACAP) at Harris-Stowe State University, during which 25 local minority high school students resided on campus for a week to increase t ...
Posted Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 at 3:49PM
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By The Root as posted on The Huffington Post.
The Huffington Post has picked up a Maynard Institute report that a Chicago news station is under fire for purposely taking the words of a 4-year-old boy out of context to portray him as a future crimi ...
Posted Tuesday, August 2nd 2011 at 8:59PM
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After Being Paralyzed in a Car Accident, Kenny Lee Makes an Effort to Return to the Court
Former Harris-Stowe State University student-athlete Kenny Lee is participating in the Man-to-Man celebrity wheelchair basketball game on Saturday, August 13 ...
Posted Monday, July 25th 2011 at 7:47PM
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Harris-Stowe State University President Dr. Henry Givens Jr. will be honored with the MOKAN Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, July 29, 2011, during the company’s 36th anniversary awards dinner.
MOKAN, a St. Louis construction contractors assis ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 6:02PM
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Stillman's Brittany Poston is busy in the lab this summer, as she has been awarded the opportunity to participate in the Summer Undergraduate Research Program at the University of West Georgia (UWG), in Carrolton.
A Westpoint, Miss., native, Posto ...
Posted Tuesday, July 19th 2011 at 5:21PM
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Stillman junior nursing major, Janae Jones, placed 6th in the national overall women's 400-meter at the NCAA Division II Track and Field National Championships in Turlock, Ca. She also ranked 11th in the nation for the women's 200-meter.
To be an ...
Posted Wednesday, July 13th 2011 at 1:33PM
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Originally titled
Morehouse Whiz Kid is Causing a Stir: 13-Year-Old Dominates College
By Boyce Watkins, PhD
At thirteen years of age, Stephen Stafford is causing quite a stir at Morehouse College. Stafford has a triple major in pre-med, math and ...
Posted Friday, July 8th 2011 at 4:34PM
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