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Dr. Samuel Myers said it “hurt his heart” as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU Equality trial, Jan. 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland’s four HBCUs, said he’s spent his life working in higher education. “And I’ve seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally,” he said. “And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated.”more
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Attending the HBCU equality lawsuit were Wilma Roscoe, former NAFEO Executive Director; Art Thomas, and Andrea Mickens (Photo, Amy Billingsley)
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HBCU ‘Equality’ Lawsuit: Black Notables, Former HBCU Presidents and Students Pack Courtroom
Originally published February 01, 2012Dr. Samuel Myers said it “hurt his heart” as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU Equality trial, Jan. 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland’s four HBCUs, said he’s spent his life working in higher education. “And I’ve seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally,” he said. “And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated.”more
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January 25, 2012 -
In keeping with the tradition of fighting for and supporting historical Black universities and colleges (HBCU), leaders and members of local Black churches crowded into courtroom 7D of the Garmatz Federal Courthouse Jan. 24 to show support for the ongoing Maryland HBCU Equality Lawsuit.more
January 25, 2012 -
In South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. Willard Mitt Romney may have had the worst week in politics ever. When Romney and his well-organized, well-financed forces descended upon South Carolina for their final push to take the coveted South Carolina Republican Primary prize he had the chance to leave the Palmetto State with a nearly unassailable 3-0 record in the first three GOP contests of 2012.more
January 25, 2012 -
Morgan State University has been unable to fully execute its mission because of poor financial support from the state of Maryland, its retired president has testified.more
January 18, 2012 -
As the plaintiffs continued its case in a trial of a $2.1 billion lawsuit to bring parity to Maryland’s four historically Black colleges and universities, a former chairman of the Maryland Higher Education Commission testified how the state continued to duplicate programs at traditionally White institutions despite an agreement with the federal government to stop doing so.more
January 18, 2012 -
“Pandemonium reigned supreme at the 99th Fighter Squadron’s operations tent, in February, 1944, as crack pilots returned from their history-making air attacks against the Germans, running their scoreboard to twelve Nazi planes destroyed, two probably destroyed, and four damaged during two days of fighting – a record for the current invasion of Anzio and Nettuno Beaches, South of Rome,” wrote the AFRO’s Art Carter in February 1944. The headline of Carter’s story was, “With Colonel Davis’s Flyers in Italy,” with the sub-head, “We’ve Been Waiting for This.”more
January 18, 2012 -
Members of the community come together to show appreciation for, and celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.more
January 15, 2012 -
An inaccurate inscription etched into the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington D.C. will be changed to provide the correct context of a quote by the civil rights leader.more
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