Who would have thought a Bon Jovi song led me to a black college?
In 1952, Fisk was the first predominantly black college to earn a Phi Beta Kappa charter.
This is my last chance to get a taste of that black college experience I always wondered about.
Early on, BET ran a mix of old movies, gospel, black college sports, infomercials and a few music videos.
Like so many young black girls, my dream was to move to Atlanta and attend the historically black college Spelman.
But change is happening, and black college students are at the forefront.
When he accepted the honor, the telecoms tycoon promised to sponsor at least 10 African students to attend the historically black college.
As a graduate of a black college university, I certainly support that.
After entering the historically black college as a remedial reading student with a thick Louisiana accent, Mackie is today a successful businessman, author and lecturer.
They had it moved from downtown Baton Rouge where the conferences are actually being held to Southern University, a historically black college to allow some students to come.
Howard University was the only traditional black college that belonged to the NSFA. Murrow successfully recruited half a dozen more black schools and urged them to send delegates to Atlanta.
Students from the historically black college marched to the courthouse and the state Capitol building Thursday to protest what they described as voting discrepancies in several Florida counties during the presidential election.
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Those sentiments were echoed across town at the historically black Benedict College where Kathryn Jones of Columbia, and Brenda Walker of Irmo, work.
In the mid-1950s, he made his way to that touchstone for so many of the best American modern artists, Black Mountain College in North Carolina.
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The UK Border Agency has revoked the licence of a Black Country college, meaning dozens of international students may no longer be eligible to study there.
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Snelson first delved into sculpture during his first summer at the prestigious Black Mountain College in 1948, when such legends as Willem DeKooning, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were on faculty.
She says that while she's pleased that the gap between the number of black men in college and the number in prison is widening, there are still problems that need addressing.
King's quote has become a staple of conservative belief that "judged by the color of their skin" includes things such as unique appeals to certain voter groups, reserving government contracts for Hispanic-owned businesses, seeking more non-white corporate executives, or admitting black students to college with lower test scores.
Thomas Jardon, head of the group's student outreach efforts, said that traditional campaigning methods previously have failed to garner significant numbers of black students, which is why the College Republicans will address the Black Student Union and similar groups directly.
Black graduated from Trinity College in 1966 and holds nine honorary degrees.
Whispers began among whites when Strom Thurmond, by then South Carolina's governor, arranged for his daughter to go to the all-black South Carolina State College in the 1940s.
King was able to do this by spreading the ideas and methodologies of active nonviolence in black churches, on college campuses and through organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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As young voters began showing up at the polls in significant numbers and key Democratic blocs such as black voters and the college-educated flocked to his candidacy, the beginnings of a party schism began to take shape.
His emphasis on faith-based reforms could set the party's heavily black religious wing against its college-educated secular wing.
Many of the kids on the team were private-school, college-bound black boys.
If you are a college-educated black woman with a good job and you wish to marry a black man who is your socioeconomic equal, the odds are not good.
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Ms. PURNELL: Well, actually, my college is predominantly black.
The summer after my freshman year, I discovered a little black community within miles of my college.
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