August 2024 - Page 4

HBCU Go Football Expands to Fox Stations in LA, Chicago

By Michael P. Hill HBCU Go Sports has struck a deal for its college football games to air on Fox-owned stations in Los Angeles and Chicago as well as 15 other markets. KCOP in Los Angeles, California, and WPWR in Chicago, Illinois, have both signed on to air games from the HBCU Go lineup starting int he fall of 2024. HBCU

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Kamala Harris Selects Tim Walz as 2024 Running Mate

By Mike Willis Vice President Harris and running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz introduced themselves to a full house with plenty of applause in Philadelphia on Tuesday evening. Harris praised Walz’s accomplishments and set him up for a lightning-fast campaign: He “really does shine a light on a brighter future that we can build together.” She offered

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Trump Targets Kamala Harris With Race and Gender Attacks

By Amanda Terkel In the roughly two weeks since President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid and endorsed his vice president, Kamala Harris, to take his spot at the top of the ticket, Donald Trump has increasingly gone after his new opponent’s race and gender. Harris, whose mother was Indian and father is Jamaican, would make

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Monica G. Williams Named President of TWU Houston Campus

Courtesy of Texas Women’s University Monica G. Williams has been named the inaugural president of the Houston campus at Texas Woman’s University. She will begin her new role on August 26. Across its three campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Houston, Texas Woman’s University enrolls over 5,800 graduate students and 10,000 undergraduate students, 17 percent of

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Kamala Harris Nears VP Pick With Trusted Allies in Lead

By Alex Gangitano Vice President Harris and her team are interviewing running mate candidates before she announces her pick next week, and the top choices all have established relationships with Harris, which could influence her decision. In her time as attorney general of California, U.S. senator and vice president, Harris has gotten to know those who have been identified as

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Lauren Scruggs Makes Olympic Fencing History for U.S.

By Alexandra E. Pedri After Lauren Scruggs clinched the gold medal for the United States in the women’s fencing team foil competition on Thursday, she threw off her mask and spun around, her eyes and mouth wide open. It was the team’s first-ever gold in the event. But it wasn’t the first big moment for Scruggs at

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Solomon Ofori-Acquah to Lead Georgia Sickle Cell Initiative

Courtesy of Morehouse School of Medicine An accomplished researcher in genetics and sickle cell disease is returning to Georgia to lead a science and medical collaborative that aims to find new treatments and cures for the disease. Solomon F. Ofori-Acquah, PhD, is currently director of two research enterprises, both of which he started: the West

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Gail Lumet Buckley, Historian and Author, Dies at 86

By Richard Sandomir Gail Lumet Buckley, who rather than follow her mother, Lena Horne, into show business, wrote two multigenerational books about their ambitious Black middle-class family, died on July 18 at her home in Santa Monica, Calif. She was 86. Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and film and television producer, said the cause

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Hurricane Debby Threatens Savannah State, Other HBCUs

By Vaughn Wilson Hurricane Debby has Savannah State in its sights, and other HBCUs could feel its impact. Tropical Storm Debby became a hurricane on Sunday night after churning in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.  On Saturday night it began dropping heavy rains in South Florida on the western shores.  It battered Naples and

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