Courtesy of Fayetteville University Campbell Law Schoolâs traveling exhibit honoring the contributions of trailblazing African American judges in North Carolina has landed at Fayetteville State University for the month of February. The âFirst African Americans on the North Carolina Benchâ features a timeline of the lives and achievements of each judge and justice from 1968-2006.Â
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By Kenneth Mullinax, A partnership has been created between Baptist Health and Alabama State University with a goal to offer exposure and opportunities for an inaugural class of student-scholars at the University who are studying or have an interest in pre-medicine courses. The goal of the program is to extend studentsâ knowledge of the medical profession and
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By Xavier University The artworks of several Xavier University of Louisiana alums and a Xavier professor were recently on display at the AshĂ©Â Cultural Arts Center as part of the âArt of the Black Experienceâ exhibit. The exhibit was available to view until February 19. Ayo Scott (’03), Kara Crowley (’17), Louise Mouton Johnson (’76), XULA Adjunct Professor of Art Sheleen Jones
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Courtesy of Norfolk State University, When it came to celebrating her 75th birthday, the best present that Mozella Delk â68 could receive was the financial contributions from family and friends in support of Norfolk State University students. Her birthday event was a âGreen and Gold Extravaganzaâ held at the Norfolk Yacht & Country Club. The
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By Elias Rodriques In the 1960s, the Free Southern Theater, an organization founded by a group of activists with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), traveled to a church in a predominantly Black, rural corner of Mississippi. There they staged Samuel Beckettâs Waiting for Godot, an absurdist drama about characters conversing as they wait for someone
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By Ian Abbey, Ph.D. I spent a year teaching mostly dual-credit and early college United States history classes in a rural district in northeastern Texas. It was a good year; my supervisors and colleagues, along with the vast majority of my students, were wonderful to work with. When we covered the Civil Rights Movement, I
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By Kristen Welker, Pete Williams and Lauren Egan  President Joe Biden announced Friday that he will nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to succeed Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court. âFor too long our government, our courts, havenât looked like America,â Biden said in an event at the White House.
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Written by Howard University Newsroom, Twelve Howard University Department of Theatre Arts students will star in a free staged reading of âDeath and the Kingâs Horsemanâ by Wole Soyinka taking place at 7 p.m. on Saturday, February 26, 2022, at the Michael R. Klein Theatre at the Lansburgh. Over the past two years, Shakespeare Theatre Company has worked alongside Howard
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