Musician, actor, producer and author Derrick Watkins, better known as “Fonzworth Bentley,” is an alumnus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA. He is perhaps best known for being Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs’ former personal valet and assistant. Bentley is author of the book, Advance Your Swagger: How to Use Manners, Confidence, and Style to Get […]
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Once again Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) has been ranked number 1 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education for producing Black Architecture undergraduate students. The ranking comes on the heels of PVAMU’s top ranking in producing African-American undergraduate Engineering students. Released annually, the Top 100 listing for Bachelor’s Degree producers provides a tool to measure
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I am proud of Black Greek-Letter Organization college members across America. Many have responded very well to the #BlackLivesMatter movement through their involvement. BGLO chapters and members have also been leaders. For example, the Truman State University Phi Beta Sigma chapter began a #ChalkedUnarmed social media movement. Later, Brown University’s Alpha Phi Alpha chapter’s held
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It is better to give than to receive and rightly so as Tis the Season to do so. However, as I reflect back throughout the year, I’ve witnessed a few different approaches to ‘giving back’ among several African American organizations with philanthropic focuses. Rather than concentrating on building membership numbers that in theory would lead
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HBCU Experience – The Book: A Collection of Essays Celebrating the Black Experience is a compilation of a first-account essays that chronicles undergraduate realities at HBCUs across the nation, from student activism and leadership to mentoring and role models to dating and relationships to the fun and importance of fraternities and sororities and much more.
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In the past few weeks, this country has endured concurrent blows of injustice. First, there was the announcement from Ferguson, MO that a grand jury chose to not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18 year-old Black man. Then a week later, a grand jury from New York announced
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Getting a job interview is an important milestone on the path to getting a job. People with good interview skills relish the opportunity to go on an interview, because they know that they have a good chance in the next step of impressing a prospective employer and getting a job offer. However, one of the
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Bennett College is offering three (3) critical and less commonly taught foreign language courses this spring. Along with students from Bennett and neighboring campuses, members of the Greensboro community are invited to register for classes in Arabic, Chinese or Swahili. For spring semester 2015, classes begin on January 12 and are offered at the class
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