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Obama signs executive order recognizing HBCUs
5:55 PM on 02/26/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama says these schools have felt the pain of the recession most acutely because they enroll a higher proportion of low and middle-income students...
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Obama to increase funding to HBCUs
10:53 AM on 02/01/2010
President Obama's administration has agreed to increase funding to the nation's historically Black colleges and universities...
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Lincoln University shouldn't throw its weight around
8:00 AM on 11/24/2009
OPINION - Predicating students' (most of them black) educational achievement on bodily appearance threatens to undo many of the positive coping skills that blacks (women in particular) have developed in order to maintain positive mental health.
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Lincoln University requires overweight students to take fitness course to graduate
9:45 AM on 11/23/2009
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts...
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Mississippi governor wants to merge state's 3 HBCUs into one
8:36 AM on 11/19/2009
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday unveiled a budget that includes sweeping reorganization of state government, including proposals...
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Bernanke ignores history of black and white wealth rift
7:50 AM on 10/30/2009
Bernanke responded that the source of the problem was the lack of "financial literacy" and "financial education" on the part of blacks
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Hypocrisy reigns for critics of the first non-black Miss Hampton U
9:00 AM on 10/14/2009
OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the historically-black institution...
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Crowning of first non-black Miss HU divides campus
10:05 AM on 10/13/2009
FROM DAILY PRESS> BY Samieh Shalash - HAMPTON -- Hampton University crowned its first non-black Miss HU Friday, leading to a division on campus that prompted her to write President Barack Obama. Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th annual Miss HU scholarship pageant. The senior...
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Pittsburgh protesters aren't looking for another Seattle
8:55 AM on 09/24/2009
There have been concerns that more militant outfits are seeking the kind of carnage witnessed in Seattle, and the city government has acted cautiously...
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How the recession stopped my education
8:46 AM on 09/09/2009
Check out this interview with a Spelman student who's not going back to school. From essence.com: As college students around the country begin their first month of classes, after a long summer break, there are a number of students who won't have that same opportunity to go back to school....
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Spelman student killed by stray bullet on campus
10:31 AM on 09/04/2009
VIDEO - A 19-year-old college student walking with friends was struck and killed by a stray bullet early Thursday on the campus of Clark Atlanta University, police said.
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As nation's schools open, Obama hails black colleges
10:41 AM on 09/01/2009
FROM THE LA TIMES: As millions of Americans, wearing new shoes and carrying undoodled notebooks, shuffled back into classrooms across the country, President Obama released a special proclamation today, saluting the country's historically black universities and colleges. In fact, the Democrat proclaimed the entire week National Historically Black Colleges and...
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It's a different world for 14-year-old Howard University student
9:10 AM on 09/01/2009
VIDEO -- As the school year gets under way at Howard University, one of the new faces on campus already has done enough work to rise to sophomore standing and he's only 14 years old.
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HBCUs are still vital to American education
8:00 AM on 09/01/2009
OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even white, students...
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Morris Brown president speaks out on battle for HBCUs
7:57 AM on 09/01/2009
VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the nation's African-Americans, who were once barred from attending school with whites...
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