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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 20, 2009 ) Boca Raton, FL --- In light of the current economy, most institutions are having a difficult time fund raising. Whether it be religious institutions, charities or universities, the money is not coming in as easily as it used to. In this segment of 21st Century Business, Dennis Tubbergen, CEO of GTBK Marketing and CEO of USA Charitable Concepts LLC is here to discuss...
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Alien Life (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation . Here's today's news: g Abodes - A proposed space mission that aims to measure dark energy could also detect planets that current surveys are unable to find. See article . g Life - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up...
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Filed under: Opinion , Politics My mother raised me to believe that black men are supposed to stand up for black women . Heather Ellis is the woman who now faces 15-years in prison for an incident deriving from her being accused of cutting line at a Walmart. Based on my knowledge of the Heather Ellis case (and seeing the Walmart surveillance video that has not yet been released to the public), it...
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Filed under: Professional Profiles , Personal Finance , Budget Keisha Sumner hates working for the man... or woman for that matter. So the 34-year-old embarked on the endeavor of a lifetime: financial independence. She left traditional corporate America cold turkey. No mandatory office hours. No boss. No chain of command. No consistent paycheck. "I love my lifestyle," she says. "Entrepreneurship...
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Pardon Power (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
This article from the Bangor Daily News discusses a recent speech by Kurt L. Schmoke, dean of the Howard University School of Law and former mayor of Baltimore, before a group lawyers and law students at the University of Southern Maine. According to the Daily News , Schmoke aregued that it is time for both presidents and governors to "rethink" the role of the pardon and use that power to...
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illRoots (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Download/Stream Here. Phil Ade and Radio Rah dropped through to chill with Fuze at his weekly show at Howard University, WHBC The Cipher every Friday and Saturday 6-8pm, and decided to drop some bars over The Clipse “Grindin’” instrumental. Thanks Fuze.
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The Reference Frame (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Bad news which is however hardly surprising. The APS has prepared a negative response to the letter by 160 physicists including Ivar Giaever and Will Happer who wanted the society to return to its scientific roots when it comes to the topic of climate change and who proposed a new climate policy statement . Physics World , Google News What was the procedure leading to the official APS reply? The current...
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Acton Institute PowerBlog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Black leaders constantly remind Americans of our racism. Should not these same leaders protest the expansion of government control contained in the health-care reform bill currently working its way through Congress? Here’s why. Notwithstanding their rhetoric of freedom and empowerment, many prominent black leaders appear content to send blacks back to the government plantation—where a small...
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
From the Article: One of the most important troves of African-American historical materials became the subject of national ire and hand wringing this week, when the student newspaper at Howard University reported that the university library’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center — considered one of the foremost repositories of artifacts and manuscripts related to black history — could...
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EphBlog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Proquest provides this information (may require college/university ID) about Bernard Moore’s dissertation. America’s race to incarcerate: Locking up communities of color by Moore, Bernard, Ph.D., Howard University, 2009 , 304 pages; AAT 3350304 Abstract (Summary) Research findings support the conclusion that incarceration in the United States has increased, and numbers of African-American...
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US News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The school had flirted with closing a well-known research facility before students and alumni spoke up.
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The HBCU Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Norfolk State University President Carolyn Meyers has been named one of three finalists for the top post at Morgan State University in Baltimore. The announcement comes as Meyers, who is in her fourth year at Norfolk State, has come under scrutiny by its Board of Visitors. She was the subject of a lengthy closed-session meeting last month, along with reviews of internal audits. Morgan State's Board...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Jeanette Pata never knew Jasper Howard, the University of Connecticut football player who was fatally stabbed last month outside a school dance, but she felt compelled to drive from West Palm Beach to the New Birth Baptist Church in Opa Locka for his funeral a few weeks ago.
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Filed under: Travel Port Royal Golf Course (opened 2009) Bermuda is no stranger to beauty. The island is a breathtaking kalaideoscope - sandy pink beaches, water in 800 shades of turquoise and candy-pastel houses dot its hilly landscape. Bermuda is also known for Bermuda shorts, the "dark and stormy" rum drink, Cassava pie and citizens who are pretty looking and pretty well to do (the per...
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Winnipeg Real Estate (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
You get plenty of information about the Howard University College of Medicine that is this university began in 1868 as the university's medical depar 1 Vote(s)
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