Courtesy of North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is embarking on training its frontline staff and managers through a new customer service initiative, “Bringing the Aggie Experience to Life.” The university incorporated this initiative in its recently unveiled “Preeminence 2030: North Carolina A&T Blueprint.” This latest strategic plan, which builds on
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By Andrew Skerritt U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Marcia Fudge exhorted Florida A&M University spring 2023 graduates to stand up and be counted to face the mounting challenges ahead. “Class of 2023, you are the next generation of leaders who will demand this country lives up to its promise. You are the ones
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By Ken Makin Shortly after the NFL draft ended, the Twitter account for Florida A&M University’s football program offered a glimpse into the moment one of the biggest draft prospects in the historically Black college community got the call. The Dallas Cowboys had just signed FAMU linebacker Isaiah Land as an undrafted free agent. Land,
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By Emma Sánchez Fort Lee in Virginia will be officially renamed Fort Gregg-Adams on Thursday after two Black officers who made significant contributions to the U.S. Army. The post is one of nine Army bases that will be renamed as part of the process of redesignating bases named after Confederate leaders, according to an Army statement. “We
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By Emmanuel Freeman United States Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, the man who led the congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, told Tennessee State University graduate school candidates to be aware of forces that are trying to change the course of democracy in the country by twisting facts and reality to
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Grace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s Bayreuth Festival during a career of more than three decades on the world’s top stages, has died. She was 86. Bumbry died Sunday at Evangelisches Krankenhaus, a hospital in Vienna, according to her publicist, David Lee Brewer. She had a
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Courtesy of Spelman College Spelman College announced today, plans to hold the College’s 2023 Baccalaureate Ceremony on Saturday, May 20, 2023, 10:00 a.m. (ET), at the Georgia International Convention Center. The guest speaker is Reverend Traci Blackmon, associate general minister of Justice and Local Church Ministries for the United Church of Christ. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of
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