by Candace | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, HBCU Pulse
More Latino students are enrolling in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) like never before. According to recent studies, the enrollment of Latino students in HBCUs increased by 90% from 2000-2010 and has continued to rise steadily ever since,...
by Face2Face Africa | Jun 3, 2016 | Africa
One month after she became the first woman ever to be crowned Miss Africa Continent, 24-year-old Rebecca Asamoah can’t wait to begin reading her Master’s degree at Monash University, one of the most prominent universities in Australia. With the scholarship, which is...
by Forest Parks | Jun 3, 2016 | Culture
Let’s hope that Nick Canon stays true to his tweets after a rant that started about him being sick of slave movies ended in him saying he plans to rush and start development of a positive project himself. The media mogul is well connected enough to not let this...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 3, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born Isabella in 1797 in Ulster Country, New York, she ran away from slavery in 1843 and changed her name to Sojourner Truth. At a time when oratory was a fine art, Sojourner Truth, through her strong character and acid intelligence, was among the best and most famous...
by Forest Parks | Jun 2, 2016 | News, Politics News
Have you heard of black bike week, otherwise known as Atlantic Beach Bikefest? Every year in South Carolina many many black bikers congregate in an area just north of Myrtle Beach for meeting of blacks who love biking. Something that’s usually overwhelmingly...
by Forest Parks | Jun 2, 2016 | News, Politics News
I’ve lived in Egypt, for two years of my live. I know this country well and I know there are a lot of good people there. Sadly it seems that not one of them maintains any position in the government. A seriously corrupt old man’s club that basically has...
by Forest Parks | Jun 2, 2016 | Culture
This star was a wide receiver for the Lions between 2012 and 2014, while blazing trails on the field he wasn’t being flashy off. He worked out how much he needed to live well and stuck to that, putting away the rougly $900k per year he has been earning. Sadly...
by Face2Face Africa | Jun 2, 2016 | Africa
Just a tiny span of water separates the northernmost part of Morocco from the southernmost part of Spain. In 711 AD on this day in history, a mighty general named Tariq ibn Ziyad led an army of 300 Arabs and 10,000 Berbers across that span to invade Spain and...
by Freddie Ra | Jun 2, 2016 | Profiles in Black History
Born on April 23, 1856 in Columbus, Ohio, Granville Woods was the individual most responsible for modernizing the railroad. During his lifetime, Granville T. Woods earned over thirty-five patents ranging from a steam boiler furnace in 1884, an incubator in 1900, to...
by Candace | Jun 1, 2016 | Did You Know
Tera Poole, a native from Ohio rose against all odds to become the first Black Valedictorian at the World’s First School of Dentistry. She was one of the 9 Black Female students who graduated from Maryland School of Dentistry On May 20. Two days later after graduation...
