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HBCU News & Commentary

On Wednesday, Concordia College announced that it will be closing its doors permanently at the end of this semester.  Concordia, a private HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in Selma, Ala., has faced financial, recruitment, and other challenges in recent years.  The college, founded in 1922, currently enrolls around 400 students. In our 20 years […]

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The clock is ticking as we count down the remaining holiday shopping days of the year. As with every year, we parents procrastinate and then run around like maniacs in an attempt to get the perfect gifts for people in our lives who rattled our nerves the least. Luckily, I’ve gathered a few awesome yet […]

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This week, I’m going to talk about a subject most of us try to avoid: death. Now before everyone starts groaning, allow me to explain. There were two fascinating stories in the news this past week involving death that you may have heard about. First, there was the man in Luxor, Egypt pronounced dead at […]

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It is well known folly to raise politics, religion or race unless you are cruising for a fight. Yet, the president of the United States has managed to serve up a concoction of all three by virtue of his recent pronouncement that he believes gay couples have a right to marry. I’m not sure what […]