Bennett College Former President Will Be Keynote Speaker at Links Incorporated Hosted Luncheon

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Economist, author and commentator Julianne Malveaux is the keynote speaker for the White Rose Friendship Awards Luncheon hosted by the Rochester chapter of the Links, Incorporated, 11:30 a.m. May 9 at the Rochester Plaza Hotel.

Malveaux, the 15th president of Bennett College for Women, is the founder and president of Economic Education, a personal finance and economic policy organization in Washington, D.C.

Malveaux is a labor economist whose writing has appeared in newspapers and magazines and she has been a commentator on several television networks. read more…

Benedict Advances to SIAC Championship Game

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Jordan Smith scored 20 points, making six 3-pointers, to help lead the Benedict College Tigers to a 60-58 victory over Morehouse College on Saturday in the Bill Harris Arena, sending Benedict into the SIAC Tournament championship game.

Benedict (18-11) will face Lane College (17-11) in the men’s championship at 1 p.m. on Sunday. Lane upset Paine, the No. 1 seed, in another semifinal on Saturday.

The Tigers got a jumper from Andrew Crawford with 30 seconds left to take a 57-56 lead, and they were able to hang on for the victory. Morehouse missed a layup on their end of the court and Roberto Mantovani grabbed the rebound. Brennan Reynard hit two free throws with nine seconds left for a 59-56 lead. Morehouse turned the ball over trying to inbounds the ball and Mantovani added one free throw for a 60-56 lead. Morehouse hit two free throws with three seconds left for the final margin. read more…

Barber-Scotia Alum Recalls Selma 50 Years Ago

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When Pat Tanner marched along the highway from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, she had no idea the Alabama march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would go down in history.

Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when nonviolent marchers first attempted to walk from Selma, Alabama, to the state’s capital of Montgomery to fight for equal voting rights for all Americans.

“We had no idea we were going to be part of something historical. You just saw wrong that you wanted to right,” the Canton resident and former city council member said of her time in the march. “What I saw and what I felt will be with me for a lifetime, until the good Lord calls me home.”

The historic march for voting rights was actually the third from Selma to Montgomery in that year, but it was the only one to make it all the way from Selma to the Alabama capital.

Tanner, a young student at Barber-Scotia College in North Carolina at the time, was compelled to participate in the historic third march after watching footage of what would become known as Bloody Sunday.

“It’s bad enough when you were seeing it on TV, but to actually live it? That was an experience,” Tanner said. read more…

Alabama State Beats Jackson State by 20 Points

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – DeMarcus Robinson scored 14 points and Alabama State held Jackson State to just 20 points in the second half en route to a 62-42 victory in the regular season finale Saturday.

Alabama State finished its season with an 18-9 record overall, 14-5 in the Southwestern Conference, but the Hornets are banned from postseason play due to failing to meet the NCAA’s Academic Progress Requirement standards. read more…

Brawl Ends Texas Southern Women’s Game

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A day after a bench-clearing fight ended the Southwestern Athletic Conference women’s basketball regular-season title game in a double forfeit, the conference was reviewing the incident.

With 12:36 left in the game Saturday, a fight broke out between Southern and Texas Southern. Southern was leading 51-49 at the time. Texas Southern’s Miracle Davis had just drawn a charge underneath the basket.

“I haven’t reviewed the film as much as I’d like, but my initial response is that there was a significant show of and attempt at restraint on the part of our bench as the melee unfolded,” Southern athletic director Dr. William Broussard said in a statement. “At a certain point it’s difficult to distinguish whether or not we interacted out of aggression or to defend teammates as Texas Southern’s game-day staff and security personnel attempted to respond.”

It was the second incident involving Southern this season. In a game against Alabama A&M on Feb. 21, three players were ejected early in the second half for fighting. read more…

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3 Men Arrested in Car Hijack Robbery and Break-in Near Alabama A&M

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Huntsville police have charged three men with robbery after separate incidents involving a hijacked car and an apartment break-in. No one was reported injured in either case.

Deonte McCray, 20, and Tyler Powell, 20, no additional information given, were charged with first degree robbery after two men were robbed and taken hostage Saturday in Maplewood Park at 4943 North Memorial Parkway near Alabama A&M University. read more…

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2015 SWAC Basketball Tournament Brackets Released

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Officials at the Southwestern Athletic Conference have released the men’s and women’s brackets for the 2015 Toyota SWAC Basketball Tournament set at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas March 10-14.  Texas Southern University swept the top spots, earning the No. 1 seed in both the men’s and women’s brackets.

The Tournament opens Tuesday, March 10 with an evening doubleheader, beginning with the No. 8 Alabama A&M University women against No. 9 Mississippi Valley State University at 6 p.m. and ending with the No. 8 Alcorn State University men taking on No. 9 Grambling State University at 8:30 p.m.

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The Texas Southern men won 11 of their last 12 conference games to finish 16-2 in league, 19-12 overall.  They will face the winner of Alcorn State (5-25, 4-14 SWAC) and Grambling State (2-26, 0-18 SWAC) in the last quarterfinal game of the day on Wednesday, March 11 at 8:30 p.m.  Alabama State University (18-9, 14-4 SWAC) defeated Jackson State University 11-20, 9-9 SWAC) to secure the No. 2 seed.  They will take on No. 7 seed Mississippi Valley State University (6-25, 5-13 SWAC) Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. read more…

All Five NC Central Starters Earn All-MEAC Honors

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All five North Carolina Central University men’s basketball starters have been voted to All-MEAC Teams, the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference announced Friday (March 6).

Senior point guard Nimrod Hilliard garnered First Team All-MEAC honors, while senior forward Jordan Parks, senior center Karamo Jawara and senior guard Anthony McDonald achieved Second Team All-MEAC recognition, and junior guard Dante Holmes received Third Team All-MEAC merit.

Hilliard, a Lamar University transfer out of Madison, Wisconsin, tops the conference and is 10th in the nation in assists, averaging 6.4 helpers per contest with a total of 178 in 28 games. He is also 23rd in the league in scoring (11.6 points per game), 11th in field goal percentage (.483), and the best at the charity stripe (87.1 percent free-throw shooter).

Parks, a 6-7, 200-pound forward out of Queens, New York, is the MEAC’s third-leading rebounder (8.2 rebounds per game), ninth-leading scorer (14.9 points per game), 14th-leading shot blocker (0.9 rejections per game), and most accurate shooter with a field goal percentage of 64.2 percent, which places him third in the nation.

Jawara, the Eagles’ lone four-year senior and native of Bergen, Norway, averages 7.9 points, 6.5 rebounds (13th in MEAC), 2.3 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.8 blocked shots per game. He also ranks fifth in the conference in defensive rebounds (5.5 per game) and fifth in minutes played (33.8 per game).

McDonald, a Mississippi Valley State University transfer from Aberdeen, Mississippi, tops the MEAC and ranks 11th in the nation with an average of 3.2 three-point field goals made per game, shooting 37.9 percent from behind the arc, which ranks eighth in the conference. He is the 15th-leading scorer in the league with 12.9 points per contest.

Holmes, a Florida Gulf Coast University transfer in his second season with the Eagles out of Baltimore, Maryland, is among the MEAC leaders in scoring (10.5 ppg, 27th) and steals (1.4 spg, 10th), while also averaging 4.3 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game.
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HBCU Hackathon Coming to Grambling State University

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GRAMBLING – Black Founders has made Grambling State University the next stop on their HBCUHacks hackathon tour. Black Founders’ HBCUHacks program visits black college campuses over a weekend and introduces minority students to the building blocks of tech entrepreneurship while helping students begin their tech careers through direct connections to tech companies.

On March 20-22, Grambling students will come together to use their coding, design and business skills to build software and mobile apps. The hackathon is open to students of all majors who are interested in technology. Students can sign up to participate in the hackathon at www.hbcuhacks.com/grambling.

Black Founders has brought their hackathons to Howard University, Morgan State University, and the Atlanta University Center Consortium (Clark-Atlanta University, Morehouse University, and Spelman College).

Historically black colleges and universities graduate approximately 20 percent all black students with computer science degrees every year, but diversity reports from the top tech companies continue to find that fewer than 1 percent of their tech workforce is black. HBCUs represent an opportunity to find and support talented black students interested in technology careers and entrepreneurship.

About HBCUHacks:

HBCUHacks is a series of weekend hackathons that provide students at HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities) the opportunity to flex their coding, design, and business skills and work together to build software and mobile apps. For more information, visit www.hbcuhacks.com.

Eric Holder Prepared To Dismantle Ferguson Police Department If ‘Necessary’

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(HuffingtonPost – By Julia Edwards) – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday the Justice Department would use its full authority to demand police reforms in Ferguson, Missouri, including possibly going so far as dismantling the department accused of racial bias.

“We are prepared to use all the power that we have … to ensure that the situation changes there,” Holder told reporters.

Asked if that included dismantling the Ferguson Police Department, Holder said, “If that’s what’s necessary, we’re prepared to do that.”

Civil rights lawyers have previously said the county could absorb the functions of the Ferguson Police Department.

The Justice Department issued a report this week that found that police in Ferguson overwhelmingly arrested and issued traffic citations to black residents, creating a “toxic” environment with its policing practices.

That culture of distrust erupted in August, when white Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed. The incident triggered months of protest and a national debate about race and police behavior. Read Full Huffington Post

Former Jackson State Football NFL Hopefuls Cut From Pro Day

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Just as a reminder, Pro Days events are looked to by every athlete as the one chance of making the big league and in this case the NFL. Its the last chance to preform their skills in a 40 yard dash with hopes of getting their names in the mix bigger and better competition.

According to NFL Draft Diamonds, recent graduates from the Jackson State football team, wasn’t able to complete pro day for scouts after allegedly failing to “preform well” in the 40-yard Dash.

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Jackson State University, the prestigious black college, turned their players away after they did not perform a fast enough forty.

The weather was 28 degrees and after all the players ran their forty only one player was able to perform drills in front of the scouts. Get this, the player was not even from Jackson State.

It is very difficult to make it to the NFL, but if you are judged by your forty alone, several greats wouldn’t be in the NFL.

This is a real shocker, but the NFL is on a clock people. Their time is valuable, but what about the kids who worked four years for this day? It is a shame. [/quote_box_center]

635612460694131197-IMG-0116“Yeah, I pretty much knew they would’ve cut if you didn’t run a good enough time and you didn’t finish all the drills at a good enough time,” said McCree, whose unofficial best was 4.84. “But just one drill, maybe I could’ve understood they’d give us two or three more drills. But one drill, it’s just — there are a lot of guys out there who can run fast but they can’t jump. … You can’t just eliminate one guy who doesn’t do one thing right.”

Unarmed, 19-Year-Old, Tony Robinson Shot & Killed By Police Officer In Wisconsin

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Madison Police Chief Mike Koval said during a news conference that the shooting happened after officers responded to reports of a man “jumping in and out of traffic, dodging cars and the like.” Police also received a report that the same man had been involved in a battery.
When the first officer arrived at an apartment the suspect had entered he heard what “sounded like a disturbance coming from within the home,” Koval said. The officer then forced his way into the apartment, Koval said, where the teen assaulted the officer.

MEAC Named Kendall Gray of Delaware State Player Of The Year

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(MEAC) Delaware State senior center Kendall Gray was named the 2015 MEAC Player and Defensive Player of the Year.

Gray averaged 12.4 points and 12.4 rebounds, while starting all 30 games.

He leads the nation in total rebounds, defensive rebounds and rebounds per game, hauling in a total of 371 boards this season, including 106 on the offensive end.

He also ranks seventh in the NCAA in double-doubles with 17.

Gray concluded the season with 83 blocks, 33 assists and 13 steals. In his final game of the season he recorded 33 points and 30 rebounds in a 104-92 victory over Coppin State.

This is the second time in conference history that a player earned both honors during the same season.

In 2011-12, Norfolk State’s Kyle O’Quinn became the first MEAC player to earn both honors in the same season.

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Texas Southern Wins SWAC Regular Season Championship 3rd Time in 5-Years

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Texas Southern University won its third Southwestern Athletic Conference Regular Season Championship in five years Thursday night by defeating Alcorn State 94-73.

Madarious Gibbs and Deverell Biggs each scored 21 points to help lead TSU and give head coach Mike Davis his second regular season crown with the Tigers.

Malcolm Riley and David Blanks both added 15 points, with Riley also grabbed 15 rebounds for Texas Southern (18-12, 15-2), which shot a season best 63.5 percent from the field to go along with its season-high 94 points. The Tigers, winners of seven straight and 10 of 11, had already clinched a share the SWAC regular season title with a win over Alabama A&M on Monday.

Texas Southern had an 18-4 run in the first half and led 40-30 at the break. After Alcorn State’s Michael Davis cut the deficit to two with 13:02 left, the Tigers outscored the Braves 26-10 over the next eight minutes to put the game away.

Marquis Vance scored 26 points to lead Alcorn State (5-24, 4-13).

VIDEO – Terrence J Discusses The Importance Of HBCUs With Larry King

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Terrence J was recently invited to the – The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans through “Champions of Change” from Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU”s) according to an article by The Buzz. This marked his first presentation at the White House.

Terrence J is a proud graduate of North Carolina A&T.  Terrence says in response to Larry King’s question about their being less HBCU’s, “It’s tough because these institutions when they were implemented were to help all people of color. Its really important that we keep them going and keep funding them.”

He goes further to say, “These colleges make-up 3% of colleges but graduate 23% of minorities. It’s really important to keep them going.”

Lastly, he says, “NC A&T’s family environment helped me turn my life around.”