The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
MOBILE — Dameyune Craig played football in the Southeastern Conference, spent four years as a backup in the NFL and is now coaching on the college level. During that time, few players have impressed him more than Tuskegee University quarterback Jacary Atkinson.
HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
After several months of speculation, Dr. William Lide has been terminated as the commissioner of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Unsatisfactory financial audits and operational mismanagement led to the termination, according to Dr. Benjamin Payton, president of Tuskegee University and...
HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Courtesy: TheSIAC.com The NCAA Division II Men's and Women's Tennis Committee has selected the teams and 16 first- and second-round sites of the 2008 NCAA Division II Men's Tennis Championships. Tuskegee University men's and women's team were automatic qualifiers. Benedict...
HBCU Sports Blog (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Courtesy: TheSIAC.com Entering Sunday’s Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Baseball Championship, Stillman coach Donny Crawford knew he had to piece together enough pitching to win two games against Paine College. Although the Lions twice had Stillman on the ropes, the Tigers’...
AfriClassical (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
[ The Spirituals of William L. Dawson; The St. Olaf Choir; Anton Armstrong, conductor; Marvis Martin, soprano; St. Olaf Records 2159 (1997)] Tuskegee University Annual lecture, concert celebrate legacy of famed composer Dawson Tuskegee, Ala. (April 6, 2008) - The 17 th Annual William Levi Dawson Lecture was held on April 4 in the University Chapel. The lecture was given by Clyde Owen Jackson, a former...
Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
The digital collection are primary resources from HBCU libraries and archives. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project includes more than 1,000 scanned pages and represents HBCU libraries' first collaborative effort to make a historic collection digitially available. The collection includes campus charters, photographs, student yearbooks, early campus architectural drawings, university...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
HARTFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aetna (NYSE:AET) today announced that it will serve as a corporate sponsor of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), comprised of Shaw
NewsObserver.com - Local & State (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
The Tuskegee University Golden Voices Choir's spring tour is stopping in the Triangle this week. Stops include:
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
My big break came at a difficult point in my life. Born and reared in Hempstead, N.Y., my family moved to Atlanta when I was 14 years old.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
The United Negro College Fund is honouring actor Denzel Washington and his wife at its 64th anniversary dinner in New York.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
German astronaut Hans Schlegel geared up for his first spacewalk today, two days after an illness forced the shuttle Atlantis crew member to skip an outing to install the international space station's new European lab.
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/13/2008
After an illness prevented him from participating in a spacewalk earlier this week, Atlantis astronaut Hans Schlegel said Tuesday he's feeling well enough to join a colleague for a long stroll outside the international space station today.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Tri-state black college tour seeks to motivate youth to vote in the upcoming primary BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After successfully galvanizing young voters for the South Carolina primaries, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's youth division, Black Youth Vote (BYV) will launch a Justice Speak Out College Tour in Alabama on Thursday, January 31, 2008. The...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
A man known for discovering many uses for the peanut is the focus of a new exhibit at the Field Museum in honor of Black History Month. CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports on the exhibition of the life and work of inventor and scholar George Washington Carver.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
Tiger Woods contends Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman meant no harm when she used the word "lynch" during television commentary about...
