By Brandon King Saturday night in Nashville there was a sobering reminder that competition, no matter how fierce, will always be superseded by people. With 3:04 left in the second half of Tennessee Tech’s matchup with Tennessee State, Tennessee Tech junior guard Diante Wood was injured when he fell into a group of players under the
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Rev. Al Sharpton, National Action Network (NAN) founder and MSNBC host, led a march to the Florida Capitol on Wednesday to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis’ rejection of a high school African American history course, accusing the Republican of censoring a fundamental chapter of the nation’s past. The civil rights leader walked through Tallahassee to the
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By D. Thompson Bowie State University has received funding from the U. S. Department of Education’s Augustus F. Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program that will exceed $1.5 million over four years to support The Bowie Black Male Educators Project. The university is one of only twelve institutions, and the only HBCU to be awarded a
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Courtesy of Grambling State University The National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) today announced the opening of the 2023-2024 Legends HBCU Scholarship — a scholarship fund and scholars program for undergraduate students attending HBCUs across the country. This Legends HBCU Scholarship is the latest program from the NBRPA’s Legends Care initiative and will become an
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By McGraw Hill When the physician assistant (PA) students at Morehouse School of Medicine hosted their first-ever PAs in the Park event in 2021, they had one goal in mind: to advance health and health equity by offering services that respond to Atlanta residents’ healthcare and wellness needs. The 2022 event, held in Washington Park
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By Sholnn Z. Freeman Watching America’s treatment of migrant families, Howard University pediatric dental resident Jose Garcia (DDS ’19) recalled feeling a deep sense of injustice. These families had embarked on long journeys to seek asylum at the U.S. border only to be met with the horrors of family separations, and even instances of migrant children reported
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