african american scholars

Welcome to the 'african american scholars' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'african american scholars'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “african american scholars”

• What Do the Cleveland Murders Say About Our Society?

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 116
  by Dr. Boyce Watkins , Syracuse University   Anthony Sowell is a name that most of us would like to forget. Sowell is the 50-year-old man in Cleveland found to have 11 corpses in his home after being arrested on a rape charge. His neighbors noticed the smell, but some blamed it on the sausage factory next ...
  1 day ago

• Antoine Walker is Broke: Five Lessons We can Learn

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 146
  Filed under: Celebrity News , Personal Finance When I went to The University of Kentucky with Antoine Walker during the 1990s, we all knew he was going to be a star. He was headed for great things and would represent his family well. No one would have guessed that he would one day become the poster child for ...
  1 day ago

• Chris Brown vs. Rihanna: Time to Butt Out

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  When I heard that Chris Brown hit his ex-girlfriend Rihanna, I was concerned and surprised.  I also found myself irritated by the fact that many women, along with my teenage daughters, were quick to forgive Chris for his actions, primarily because they think he has a great voice and a cute face.  I had little [...]
  2 days ago

• Jay Z vs. Beanie Sigal: A Lesson in Corporate Power

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
   Consider it a strange dream, but I had some thoughts about the Jay-Z beef with the rapper Beanie Sigal. No, I’m not here to talk about keeping street cred. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Half of the artists in the hip hop industry are not nearly as hard or as real as they claim to be. They’re [...]
  3 days ago

• Dr. Boyce Watkins: Michael Baisden Steps to the Plate on the Heather Ellis Case

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  by Dr. Boyce Watkins Just when you thought black celebrities didn’t care anymore, the "Bad Boy of Radio,"Michael Baisden announced today that he is going to give $5,000 to the legal defense fund of the family of Heather Ellis, a 24-year old black female college student who faces 15-years in prison after cutting in ...
  1 week ago

• Dr. Wilmer Leon: The Heather Ellis Case Reminds us to Refer to the Constitution

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 116
  Dr. Wilmer Leon , Howard University , Sirius/XM Satellite, Your Black World One of the things that make America unique is its Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights. In its original form, the Constitution did not include a list of basic civil liberties or guarantees to the individual. Many prominent ...
  1 week ago

• Dr. Wilmer Leon Speaks on the Heather Ellis Case

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  Dr. Wilmer Leon, Howard UniversityOne of the things that make America unique is its Constitution, specifically the Bill of Rights. In its original form, the Constitution did not include a list of basic civil liberties or guarantees to the individual. Many prominent Americans, including Thomas Jefferson insisted that a ...
  1 week ago

• Dr Boyce Watkins: Ben Bernanke’s Racially Ridiculous Comments

  
  The Boyce Blog — Authority: 492
  Ive always had mixed feelings about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. I feel that he is better than the previous chairman, Alan Greenspan, but the Fed Chairmanship (like the presidency) is almost never given to the right man. Just the fact that it is almost always given to a man is problematic enough, and the ...
  1 week ago

• Dr Boyce: Ben Bernanke’s Racially Ridiculous Comments

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  I’ve always had mixed feelings about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. I feel that he is better than the previous chairman, Alan Greenspan, but the Fed Chairmanship (like the presidency) is almost never given to the right man. Just the fact that it is almost always given to a man is problematic enough, and the ...
  1 week ago

• What are the Ingredient in the Swine Flu Vaccine?

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 116
    by Dr. Elaina George , Your Black World Medical Correspondent There has been a lot of confusion about what ingredients are in the H1N1 Vaccine. In order to distill the information to make it easier for you to make an informed choice, here is a brief synopsis of the information provided by the ...
  1 week ago

• Barack Obama’s Fed Chair Makes some Unfortunate and Possibly Racist Remarks

  
  Black Public Scholars — Authority: 116
  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke listens to businessmen following an address in Chatham, Mass., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) Last spring when Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke visited Morehouse College , an undergraduate student asked him what accounts for the enormous racial ...
  1 week ago

• Higher SAT Scores and Getting Ready for College: Dr Boyce Tips

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 146
  Filed under: Education I was asked recently how to prepare for college . I was also asked how to pay for it. Well, what might surprise you is that paying for college and preparing are actually closely related. The better prepared for college your children are, the easier it will be for them to pay for college ...
  1 week ago

• NCAA May Hire a Black President? Who Cares

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  by Dr. Boyce WatkinsI am not a fan of the NCAA, a sports league that earns money on the par of the NFL and NBA, but has somehow decided that they don’t have to properly compensate their employees or give them standard rights to negotiation. What’s worse is that the NCAA does tremendous harm to [...]
  1 week ago

• Dr. Boyce Watkins on AOL – 10/28/09

  
  The Boyce Blog — Authority: 492
  The Latest Mistakes Couples Make When Mixing Love and Money Together As I prepare for an appearance on ABC News to talk about money and relationships, I thought I ... Read More Posted by Boyce Watkins, PhD in BV on Money | Comments (0) Dr. Boyce Money: Do Entrepreneurs Need an ...
  1 week ago

• Dr. Boyce on AOL – 10/28/09

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  The LatestMistakes Couples Make When Mixing Love and Money TogetherAs I prepare for an appearance on ABC News to talk about money and relationships, I thought I … Read More Posted by Boyce Watkins, PhD in BV on Money | Comments (0) Dr. Boyce Money: Do Entrepreneurs Need an MBA? Probably NotI am going to [...]
  1 week ago

• Dr. Boyce Money: Do Entrepreneurs Need an MBA? Probably Not

  
  Black Entertainment, Money, Style and Beauty Blogs - Black Voices — Authority: 146
  Filed under: Personal Finance , Careers , Dr. Boyce Money I am going to say some things that will take money out of the pockets of people like myself. But darn it, it has to come out. I have taught MBA and undergraduate business students for the last 16 years, at many major universities. I believe strongly in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr Boyce: Spike Lee vs. Tyler Perry – What Gives?

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  I woke up this morning to see that Tyler Perry is being forced to defend himself against nasty allegations coming from Spike Lee.  Spike has made it clear that he doesn’t appreciate what he perceives to be “coonery” in Tyler Perry films and TV shows. When I saw Perry flat out say that the accusations [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Your Black News: Media Matters Discusses the Heather Ellis Case

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  Racial injustice rears its ugly head again, this time in rural Missouri, where heavy-handed prosecutor Stephen Sokoloff is threatening to impose a lengthy prison sentence on a woman after an altercation at a local Wal-Mart almost three years ago.In January 2007, 20-year-old Heather Ellis, then a student at Xavier ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr. Boyce on Serena Williams

  
  The Boyce Blog — Authority: 492
  by Dr. Boyce Watkins   Serena Williams has been listed as a headliner for this years Australian Open. The problem is that its not clear whether shell be allowed to play. Because of a recent outburst in which she threatened a line judge, Williams may be banned from at least one Grand Slam tournament. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dr. Boyce: KKK, Walmart, 15 Years in Prison – The Heather Ellis Story

  
  Dr. Boyce Watkins "The People's Scholar" — Authority: 493
  by Dr. Boyce Watkins, AOL Black Voices I mentioned the story before about Heather Ellis, the young woman who was threatened by the KKK after protesting about her arrest that took place in a Walmart store. The story was quite interesting in that Ellis now faces 15 years in prison for effectively cutting line at a [...]
  3 weeks ago

Comments about african american scholars