Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) Family Medicine Residency Program Director Riba C. Kelsey, MD, has been honored with the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians (GAFP) 2022 Educator of the Year Award and will be recognized during the GAFP annual meeting in November. “Dr. Kelsey is a remarkable physician and educator, and she is being honored
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By Lynn Sweet Former President Barack Obama and ex-First Lady Michelle cast votes Monday at the city of Chicago’s early voting center, arriving about 12:30 p.m. at the 191 N. Clark St. “supersite.” Obama greeted poll workers when he arrived. The couple stood at adjoining booths filling out their ballots. At one point the former president
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By Sholnn Z. Freeman The Howard University Urban Health Initiative will host the Second Annual Peers Reaching Out To Peers Summit, known as PROPS, which focuses on the opioid crisis. The event will be held in the first-floor auditorium of the Numa PG Adams Building, 520 W Street, NW, on Saturday, October 8, from 2-5 p.m. The Peers Reaching Out To Peers
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By Anthony Howard Thirteen College of Business (COB) and College of Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) students spent the summer interning at the corporate offices at Walmart and Sam’s Club in Bentonville, Arkansas. Some students were asked to join the company in more permanent positions. According to Jennifer Steele, special projects coordinator for the COB,
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Courtesy of Delaware State University Delaware State University has been awarded a $1 million grant to develop and investigate ultra-thin materials for use in various electronic, optical and magnetic devices. Dr. Mukti Rana, Professor of Physics & Engineering, serves as the principal investigator of this five-year grant funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Most
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Courtesy of Denmark Technical College Denmark Technical College and Voorhees University kicked off the 2022-2023 academic year with Operation Olive Branch, which welcomed 313 new and transfer students to the two campuses on Aug. 9. Operation Olive Branch is a unity initiative planned by the presidents of both institutions to enhance the college experience for
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“Death of a Salesman” actor Wendell Pierce, “The Piano Lesson” director LaTanya Richardson Jackson and “Till” star John Douglas Thompson are among the honorees set for the inaugural Salute to Broadway presented by the African American Film Critics Association. The event is set for Oct. 17 at The Lambs Club in the heart of Midtown’s theater district. “It’s no
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Courtesy of Fayetteville State University Francena Turner, Ph.D., adjunct lecturer of history at Fayetteville State University (FSU) and FSU alumna, recently published an essay highlighting the university’s participation in the Black Campus Movement in the late 1960s into the early 1970s. Turner’s article, “Movements Come and Go and are Soon Forgotten: The Black Campus Movement
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By D. Thompson Bowie State University, the first Historically Black College or University (HBCU) in Maryland, is one of three minority-serving institutions selected by the Adobe Foundation to receive $1 million as part of an expanded effort to advance initiatives to make learning digital skills more equitable and enable success of diverse student from underinvested
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Courtesy of Delaware State University For most of her schooling, Makaiya Atley did not have any teachers that looked like she did. A member of the Class of 2022 at Freire Charter School, Atley said she felt misunderstood at some of the mostly white schools she attended in New Castle County, Delaware, and downright insulted at
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