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• SWAC releases 2009-10 Basketball TV Schedule

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced its 2009-10 basketball television schedule last week, with 14 games slated to be televised on ESPN2 or ESPNU. Both the women’s and men’s finals of the 2010 Farmers Insurance SWAC Basketball Tournament will be televised live on ESPNU from the CenturyTel Center in ...
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• HBCU FOOTBALL WEEKEND RESULTS & Nov. 12 – 15 SCHEDULE

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  Scoreboard for November 5 – 9November 7 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 49, Grambling State 42 – FinalBenedict 49, Clark Atlanta 25 – FinalBethune-Cookman 27, Hampton 24 – FinalClarion 32, Cheyney 12 – FinalDelaware State 24, Winston-Salem State 21 – FinalFayetteville State 21, Bowie State 10 – FinalFlorida A&M ...
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• HBCU FOOTBALL WEEKEND RESULTS & Nov. 5 – 8 SCHEDULE

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  Scoreboard for October 29 – November 1October 30 Benedict 21, Stillman 16 – FinalMiles 34, Concordia 6 – Final   October 31 Alabama A&M 21, Alabama State 7 – FinalAlbany State 30, Morehouse 12 – FinalBethune-Cookman 31, NC A&T 13 – FinalElizabeth City State 21, Virginia Union 13 – ...
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• HBCUs Quietly Wage War Against Gangsta Rap

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 624
  From The Herald Sun: In 1971, Gil Scott Heron recorded, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Although the song was written during the time of the Vietnam War, Heron could have just as easily been talking about the war against gangsta-ism being waged on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and ...
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• Texas Southern, Smiley Part Ways

  
  News You Should Know | BET.com — Authority: 528
  The Tavis Smiley Communication School at Texas Southern University (TSU) will be renamed as school’s governing board voted to cut ties with the author and journalist for not delivering on his pledge to raise $2 million for the historically Black college. According to the Houston Chronicle , Smiley agreed in 2004 ...
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• Morehouse President Responds To Dress Code Controversy

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 624
  From The Daily Voice: Under fire from critics inside and outside the institution, Morehouse College has clarified its new dress code policy. In an e-mail message to alumni, college president Robert M. Franklin defended the new policy as an outgrowth of a two-year effort and denied charges that the new rules — ...
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• This Week In HBCU News

  
  Long Live THE MESSAGE — Authority: 130
  As the last Flashback Friday eluded to, Howard Universitys homecoming wrapped up last weekend. I didnt really follow any of the festivities but I did read some interesting stories involving three of this nations most popular HBCUs. #1 This isnt gonna end well. Meet Hampton Universitys latest homecoming queen, ...
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• HBCU FOOTBALL WEEKEND RESULTS & Oct. 29 – Nov. 1 SCHEDULE

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  Scoreboard for October 22 – 25October 22 Prairie View A&M 16, Southern 14 – FinalWest Chester 59, Cheyney 0 – FinalOctober 24 Alabama State 24, Alcorn State 17 – FinalArkansas-Pine Bluff 38, Edward Waters 12 – FinalBenedict 28, Fort Valley State 20 – FinalChowan 33, Johnson C. Smith 22 – ...
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• Why I Chose an HBCU

  
  THEROOT.COM — Authority: 679
  Why I Attended Howard University erin.evans 10/22/2009 14:01 Images ...
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• Why I Went Black

  
  THEROOT.COM — Authority: 679
  In the Debate Over HBCUs v. PWIs, Why I Followed Cliff and Clair to A Different World I grew up in a multiculti Dallas suburb, but followed my favorite TV parents to a different world. ...
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• OPINION: Morehouse Dress Code Won’t Fix Administration Problems

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 624
  From The Root: The conversation regarding the new dress-code policy at Morehouse College has been hijacked by a vociferous gang of socially conservative black pundits: some of them simply politically misguided, others merely proud homophobes; a few of them the ideological love-children of Ward Connerly and Bill ...
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• What Not To Wear: Morehouse Edition.

  
  PostBourgie — Authority: 598
  The new Morehouse College dress code — or rather, attire policy, since a dress code tells people what to wear, not what not to wear — includes the following provisions, according to Kay Steiger at Campus Progress: • Caps, do-rags and hoods are banned in classrooms, the cafeteria and other indoor venues. ...
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• What the ‘N’ in UNCF Stands For These Days

  
  THEROOT.COM — Authority: 679
  UNCF Receives $1.6 Billion Grant From Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation United Negro College Fund President Michael Lomax speaks on the 65-year-old organization’s new multicultural mission, how he feels about a non-black Miss ...
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• Wilson Challenges Black Colleges to Step Up

  
  News You Should Know | BET.com — Authority: 528
  The Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) pulled no punches when he met with a group of education officials. John Wilson said in order for HBCUs to survive and compete for African-American students, the institutions have to stop whining about what ...
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• White House Official: HBCUs Are Stuck In “Survive” Mode

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 624
  From 2TheAdvocate.com: The White House’s new head of historically black college initiatives had a “very frank” dialogue Friday at Southern University about the many challenges and self-inflicted problems of the nation’s black higher education institutions. John Wilson, the new executive director of the ...
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• Morehouse Bans Womens Garb in Public

  
  Kay Steiger — Authority: 119
  Inside Higher Ed reports that Morehose has gotten serious about its status as an "elite" historically black college. (Full disclosure: Campus Progress once held a regional conference on Morehouses campus.) They have adopted a dress code that encourages its students to be "well read, well spoken, well traveled, well ...
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• WEB WATCH: A Recap Of This Week’s Hottest

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 624
  Watch our very own Smokey Fontaine recap this week’s hottest news across the web with Roland Martin on this past week’s episode of Washington Watch. The two discuss Obama’s visit to New Orleans and some tough questioning from a 4th grader as well as the controversy swirling around the Miss Hampton beauty ...
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• HBCU FOOTBALL WEEKEND RESULTS & Oct. 22 – 25 SCHEDULE

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  Scoreboard for October 15 – 18October 15Morgan State 14, Miss Valley State 10 – FinalVirginia Union 31, Virginia State 3 – FinalOctober 17AppalachAlbany State 32, Clark Atlanta 29 – Final – OT Alcorn State 34, Alabama A&M 16 – FinalBenedict 28, Kentucky State 14 – FinalBethune-Cookman 34, Savannah ...
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• NASCAR seeks recruits at HBCUs

  
  AlumniUnit.com — Authority: 128
  The NASCAR College Tour visited Johnson C. Smith University last week, and a group of about 50 students gathered at Biddle Hall to hear from African Americans the stock car racing company hopes represent a significant part of its future.There was Marc Davis, a 19-year-old driver and team owner in NASCAR’s Nationwide ...
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• Hypocrisy reigns for critics of the first non-black Miss Hampton U

  
  Commentary by David A. Love — Authority: 116
  Hello everyone, I just became a contributor to theGrio , a new website launched by  NBC News earlier this year.  My first comment piece on Hampton University is here .  It also appeared on MSNBCs website.
  4 weeks ago

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