By Kenneth Mullinax The popular digital marketing course – Empower by GoDaddy – is back, and is again sponsored by Alabama State University’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC). The free course is offered only to local small businesses headquartered in Alabama. Interested business owners should register online at https://asbdc.ecenterdirect.com/events/9599 NO
By Angela Johnson Amanda Gorman made news and history as the youngest inaugural poet when she wrote “The Hill We Climb” for President Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration. Two years later, her poem is back in the news as Daily Salinas, a parent of two
By Jessica Washington There isn’t a lot we can agree on in this country. But generally, the idea that the mistakes you make as a child shouldn’t necessarily haunt you for the rest of your life is one of them. Unless, of
By Sylvester Brown Jr. As Lynn Squires, an English/Arts teacher at Washington EleMiddle School, walked into the room she shouted: “HU.” The 15 or so college students, each standing next to personalized poster boards, responded in unison: “U know!” The chant was
Courtesy of Bowie State University Doctoral students and faculty members from Bowie State’s Educational Leadership Department traveled to Finland and Sweden to conducti a comparative research analysis of the two Scandinavian nations’ educational systems to those in the United States. The research
By Jonathan Weisman Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina opened his presidential candidacy with a story of the nation’s bitter, racist past. It is one that he tells often, of a grandfather forced from school in the third grade to pick cotton
By Jackie Torok North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University associate sociology professor Stephanie Teixeira-Poit, Ph.D., has been elected vice president of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS). Her term begins in August. RSS, a professional social science association that promotes the generation,
Courtesy of West Virginia State University The Bachelor of Science in nursing program at West Virginia State University (WVSU) has received accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a national accreditation agency for nursing programs. The CCNE granted WVSU’s program
Courtesy of Tuskegee University The Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine (TUCVM) welcomed 58 new doctors of veterinary medicine into the profession on May 6 during the Graduate and Professional Schools formal ceremony in Chappie James Arena. But it was the Veterinary
Courtesy of University of Maryland Eastern Shore It was a celebration for the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as the much-anticipated opening of its new School of Pharmacy and Health Professions building became official. The facility, constructed on the continually developing and
