By William H. Kelley III The Jackson State University Department of Music is partnering with the Central Mississippi Blues Society to celebrate the city of Jackson’s bicentennial with a two-day-long blues extravaganza November 13-14. JSU students and visitors from all over are invited to immerse themselves in a series of free workshops and performances led
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By Emmanuel Freeman Symone D. Sanders-Townsend, political strategist and former senior advisor and chief spokesperson to Vice President Kamala Harris, will headline TSU’s fall 2022 commencement on Saturday, Dec. 3. Sanders, host of the new MSNBC program Symone, will give the keynote address for nearly 600 undergraduate and graduate students in the Gentry Center Complex. The
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Courtesy of Hampton University Dr. Neelam Azad, University Endowed Professor of Pharmacy, has been appointed vice president for research at Hampton University (HU). Dr. Azad joined Hampton University in 2008 as assistant professor of pharmacy and quickly rose through the ranks to chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 2014. She attained full professorship
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Courtesy of Delaware State University The Women’s Volleyball Team has returned Delaware State University to the MEAC championship pinnacle. For the first time in nearly four decades, Delaware State is volleyball champion of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The third-seeded Hornets defeated top seed Coppin State 3-1 (25-11, 19-25, 25-15, 25-16) in a raucous Memorial Hall Gym Nov. 20 evening
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By D. Thompson Kate Spade New York senior executives met with over 40 students from BSU’s Fine and Performing Arts Department on Sunday evening, Nov. 13 at the National Harbor store for a panel discussion on fashion design, mental health and the partnership the university has with Tapestry, the parent company of the luxury handbag
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Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) today published the latest edition of its “Danforth Dialogues” podcast, featuring a conversation between MSM’s President and CEO Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice and Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), in which the two leaders discussed a shared commitment to improving health care. Dr. Montgomery
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By Scott Wong New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the fourth-ranking House Democrat, said Friday that he will run to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the party’s leader after Republicans took back control of the chamber in last week’s midterm elections. His announcement in a letter to colleagues came a day after Pelosi said in a powerful floor speech that she
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By Sholnn Z. Freeman Howard University officially launched the Center for Journalism & Democracy, in a day-long Democracy Summit on November 15. The event brought together center founder Nikole Hannah-Jones, democracy experts, journalists, students, and faculty. At the summit, the Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist spoke about the fragility of American democracy, the need for new directions in
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By Thonnia Lee Tuskegee University and Auburn University announced a Memorandum of Understanding, or MOU, to expand partnerships between the universities and collaborate on community outreach at a special signing ceremony on Monday afternoon. The MOU is a commitment to blend resources and intellectual capacity to address racial and health disparities in communities across the
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Courtesy of Coppin State University Coppin State University has received a $3.7 million Teacher Quality Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant will be used to support Coppin’s Pathways to Professions (P2P) initiative over the next five years. The P2P program aims to increase teacher diversity while also boosting student success in
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