Earlier today event organizers for the Pepsi National Battle of the Bands presented by Toyota announced that this year’s event will take place on Saturday, August 27 at NRG Stadium and will kick off at 6:00 p.m. CST. This announcement also revealed the highly anticipated marching band lineup and marks the beginning of the event’s
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By Curtis Bunn In her two decades working in the Louisiana State University athletic department — a college athletics powerhouse — Sharon Lewis considered protecting the female workers and students a crucial part of her job. She said she was diligent about reporting racial and sexual offenses to her superiors — “several,” she said, filed over
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By Emmanuel Freeman Tennessee State University and the Metro Nashville Public Schools have announced a new partnership in which the university will offer 100 MNPS students full scholarships beginning the fall 2023 academic year. TSU President Glenda Glover was joined by Nashville Mayor John Cooper and MNPS officials at a press conference on the TSU campus Wednesday
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Courtesy of Grambling State University Dr. Roy I. Jones, Executive director of the Call Me MiSTER program and Provost Distinguished Professor for Clemson University’s College of Education, will serve as keynote for Grambling State University’s Call Me MiSTER Conference. The first event of its kind in Louisiana, the conference will be held on June 30
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By Arrman Kyaw Morris Brown College has received $100,000 from Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. for an endowment for scholarships and other needs to help the school’s sustainability. “Alpha Kappa Alpha is pleased to make this donation to Morris Brown College, as we continue our support of the county’s HBCUs,” said AKA International President and
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By Zack Linly Predominately white schools are not always safe places for Black students. Sometimes, those Black students who express their pro-Blackness will be met with a special kind of white fragility that also extends to the policies of their schools. Also, there’s just bound to be a lot of racism in general. And said
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Courtesy of Howard University Howard University School of Law is happy to announce that Tiffany Wright, adjunct professor, and co-director for the Howard University Civil Rights Clinic, has been appointed as associate counsel to the president in the White House Counsel’s Office. Wright, a former appellate lawyer in the D.C. office of Orrick, Herrington, and Sutcliffe
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Courtesy of Benedict College Following a tour of Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey, National Park Service (NPS) Director Chuck Sams announced the award of $16,247,500 in African American Civil Rights grants. Listed as a National Historic Landmark, Hinchcliffe Stadium is one of a few surviving Negro League baseball stadiums and previously received an African American Civil Rights Grant in 2018. This years’
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By Jackson State University The Margaret Walker Center is pleased to announce an exhibition unveiling, wreath laying, and reception in Ayer Hall at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 14, for the 52nd annual commemoration of the Gibbs-Green tragedy at Jackson State University. This event is free and open to the public. In the late hours of May
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