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Virus clusters erupt at US universities as semester begins - Black News Channel

By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press From the dorms at North Carolina to the halls of Notre Dame, officials at universities around the U.S. scrambled on Monday to deal with new COVID-19 clusters at the start of the fall semester, some of them linked to off-campus parties and packed clubs. At Oklahoma State in Stillwater, where a widely circulated video over the weekend showed maskless students packed into a nightclub, officials confirmed 23 coronavirus cases at an off-campus sorority house. The university placed the students living there in isolation and prohibited them from leaving. 'As a student, I'm frustrated as […]

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Little Richard laid to rest at Alabama alma mater

Little Richard laid to rest at Alabama alma mater

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Source: Black News Black Press | Los Angeles Sentinel | Los Angeles Sentinel | Black News

Heating and Air Conditioning Pioneer: David Crosthwait Jr.

Tennessee is the home to a number of inventors, one of them–David Crosthwait–was responsible for a number of advances in air conditioning and

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Source: Black Then

Student Actions Prompt UMN To Rethink Its Relationship With Minneapolis Police

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Jael Kerandi, the University of Minnesota's student body president, about the university's decision to "adjust" its relationship with the Minneapolis Police Department.

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Source: Stories About Black History

Little Richard Laid to Rest at Alabama Alma Mater | Afro

By The Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Will calls for change improve diversity in sport front offices?

This has been a guiding purpose since 2006 for The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) for grading pro leagues and the NCAA on racial and gender

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Source: MN Spokesman Recorder

Bolen, David Benjamin (1923- )

Outstanding college athlete and diplomat David Benjamin Bolen, the son of a postal worker, was born in the rural hamlet of Heflin, Louisiana on December 23, 1923. As a small child he discovered his superior running ability during an Easter egg hunt. Homeschooled by his mother until his family

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Source: Black Past

Dec

23

1923

Republican Talking Head Compares Obama HBCU Speech To 'Political Drive-By Shooting'

Republican Talking Head Compares Obama HBCU Speech To ‘Political Drive-By Barack Obama delivers remarks during the commencement ceremony at Morehouse College (Official White House Photo by Pete

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Source: Black Enterprise - The Premier Resource for Black Entrepreneurs and Career, Tech, and Money Content for Black People - Black Ent

Steve Biko , in full Bantu Stephen Biko (born December 18, 1946, King William’s Town, South Africa—died September 12, 1977, Pretoria), founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. His death from injuries suffered while in police custody made him an international martyr for South

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Source: Brittanica

Aug

18

1977

10 Interesting Facts About Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela will forever be remembered for the key role he played in dismantling South Africa’s system of racial apartheid. The activist and politician, who died on Dec. 5, 2013, at the age of 95, became an international symbol of peace and

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Source: ThoughtCo

Jul

18

1918

UWI Caribbean students feel trapped, abandoned in Ja

Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Allan Boesak , in full Allan Aubrey Boesak (born Feb. 23, 1946, Kakamas, S.Af.), South African clergyman, who was one of South Africa’s leading spokesmen against the country’s policy of racial separation, or

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Source: Brittanica

No contract for CMU $701m building, says project manager

PROJECT MANAGER at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Elaine Hayden, told a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday that her reputation would “take a beating” after admitting that she had no evidence to substantiate that there was a contract between the institution and Business Supply

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ruth First , in full Heloise Ruth First (born May 4, 1925, Johannesburg, South Africa—died August 17, 1982, Maputo, Mozambique), South African activist, scholar, and journalist known for her relentless opposition to South Africa’s discriminatory policy of apartheid. In 1982 she was assassinated

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Source: Brittanica

Aug

17

1982

U.S. coronavirus death toll exceeds 120,000 Americans

Medical workers in personal protective equipment (PPE) test for COViD-19 at Abyssinian Baptist Church, one of 11 churches across the city as well as Nassau County and Westchester that has begun testing for the virus on May 13, 2020 in New York

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Source: theGrio

Danielle Geathers Becomes MIT’s First Black Woman Student Body President

Just weeks after it was announced that Princeton University graduate Nicholas Johnson made history by becoming the school’s first-ever Black valedictorian, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has elected its first African American woman student body president, CNN

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Source: NewsOne

Embry-Riddle to resume face-to-face instruction on June 30 –

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to reopen the institution’s residential campuses in Florida and Arizona for face-to-face instruction on June

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Source: Daytona Times

UWI Caribbean students feel trapped, abandoned in Jamaica

(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Marquette University Revokes Admission Due to Racist Social Media Post About George Floyd’s Death – Free Press of Jacksonville

Officials at Marquette University had learned of the Snapchat post last week and that the student had also used racially offensive language in other

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Source: Free Press of Jacksonville – Florida’s First Coast Quality Black Weekly

ODOTE: Varsities should adopt online education

As one who has been engaged in imagining and pioneering such online examinations at a public university, the coverage coming on the day we were scheduled to commence those examinations were a reflection

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Source: Business Daily

Livingstone College [Salisbury] (1879-- )

Livingstone College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Salisbury, North Carolina. The large, urban campus is located about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, North

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Source: Black Past

NCU Alumni Federation happy with contribution to mediathon

THE NCU Alumni Federation — international alumni arm of Northern Caribbean University — has said that US$300,000 and $3.6 million in pledges and donations were reported immediately after the end of the six-hour-long mediathon held last

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Lewis, Delano Eugene (1938 - )

On November 16, 1999 President William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton nominated Delano Eugene Lewis to be the United States Ambassador to South Africa. Lewis was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and served in that capacity from 1999 to 2001. Having spent much of his adult life to that point as an attorney

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Source: Black Past

Nov

16

1999

Ghana coronavirus: 6,808 cases, phase out lifting of restrictions - church group

Total confirmed cases = 6,683 (new cases

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Little Richard Laid to Rest at Michigan Alma Mater

Rock 'n' roll legend Little Richard was laid to rest Wednesday at his Alma mater, Oakland University in

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Source: The Washington Informer

Morris College [South Carolina] (1908-- )

Morris College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Sumter, South Carolina. The college is 45 miles from Columbia, South Carolina. Housed on 33 acres, Morris has 24

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Source: Black Past

Aug

14

1961

HBCUs, Other MD Colleges Plan for In-Person, Remote Learning in Fall | Afro

The 12 state schools that constitute the University System of Maryland will use a mix of in-person and remote learning when they reopen in the

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was born in September 16, 1950 in West Virginia and excelled in studies from an early age, regardless of his underprivileged family background. Graduating from high school as valedictorian in 1968, Gates attended a local college before enrolling in Yale University from where

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Source: Black History Resources

Sep

16

1950

June 15 is day of giving for B-CU –

Bethune-Cookman University has announced an “Advancing the Legacy’’ national day of giving to raise $100,000 in a single day to assist scholars during their matriculation through

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Source: Daytona Times

Wells, Barry L. (1942- )

Ambassador Barry L. Wells has had an extensive career in international affairs with the United States Foreign Service after an earlier period as a university professor and administrator. Wells was born in 1942 in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from East High School in that city in 1959. He received

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Source: Black Past

University of Mississippi students Caused A Riot

University of Mississippi students and adults from Oxford, Miss., and other Southern communities rioted on the university campus. Two persons were killed and one hundred or more were wounded.

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Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

30

1962

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