June 22, 2022

Black Americans living abroad reflect on Juneteenth

As the United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black history. President Joe Biden moved quickly last year toĀ federally recognize the dayĀ Black Americans have been celebrating since the last

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JSU awarded Health Leadership Award for establishing a tobacco-free campus

By Kyle Kidd Jackson State University recently received the 2022 ā€˜Tobacco Control Health Leadership Award from the Arizonans Concerned About Smoking, Arizona NAACP, and the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Officers Association during the U.S. Public Health Service Symposium. This award recognizes JSUā€™s role model tobacco-free campus policy in which tobacco product is defined as

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TSU Takes Over Miami With National Alumni Conference, The Tiger Renaissance

By Alexis Clark TheĀ Tennessee State University National Alumni Association (TSUNAA)Ā turned the City of Miami ā€œBlue and Whiteā€ for the 66th National Convention in the sunshine state. It had been four years since TSUNAAĀ held an in-person annual convention due to the pandemic. More than 200 members attended the alumni conference including TSU President Glenda Glover.Ā The three-day

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American Cancer Society Awards Howard University $4 Million to Establish Cancer Health Equity Research Center

By Sholnn Z. Freeman The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded Howard University a four-year $4.08 million grant to establish aĀ Cancer Health Equity Research CenterĀ (CHERC), one of multiple such centers that ACS is creating with other educational institutions and amounts to an investment of $16 million nationally. ACS officials said addressing the root causes of

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FAMU Professor Secures $3.5M to Support Wellness of Floridaā€™s First Responders

By Andrew Skerritt A Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, Institute of Public Health (CoPPS,IPH) faculty member secured an estimated $2.5 million from the Florida Department of Children and Families to continue collaborative efforts to support the wellness of the stateā€™s first responders. This new award is in addition to more

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TSU partnering with six HBCUs and MSIs to share online courses for new pathways to college completion

Courtesy of Texas Southern University Texas Southern University has joined a group of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in an innovative new partnership. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) announced its HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Consortium, a collaboration designed to help HBCUs and MSIs enable students to stay on track toward

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