The Margaret Walker Center and the Jackson Hinds Library System will announce year-long plans to celebrate the 2015 Margaret Walker Centennial at a press conference and reception at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in Ayer Hall on the Jackson State University ...
Posted Monday, December 1st 2014 at 11:18AM
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If you didn't hear it on the news, you probably noticed it the last time you filled up your car: gasoline prices have been dropping lately after holding fairly steady for a year or so, following world oil prices.
After clicking your heels at the g ...
Posted Monday, December 1st 2014 at 8:34AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 30
NOVEMBER 2014
BANGKOK Thailand
The Royal Prince of Thai has written a letter to the Thai government which will strike the use of a family name given to the relatives of his wife. The letter was submitted on Friday, N ...
Posted Sunday, November 30th 2014 at 6:18PM
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“With Thanksgiving here, now is the time when many of us pause to reflect on all that we have and give thanks. But research shows there are major benefits to practicing gratitude -- which Robert Emmons, a professor in UC Davis' psychology department ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 9:51AM
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HuffPost “It's important to note that this case has never been about just one police officer. The spotlight on Ferguson has revealed with a renewed, sharper focus a deep divide in our society highlighting persistent systemic inequalities.” Even as we ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 9:12AM
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Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength! Isaiah 52:1 NIV. Believers, it is time to awaken and agree with Heaven! ... I was reminded by the Lord that at the beginning of this year He said that He was going to "mantle" His people with a new a ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 8:54AM
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Your World/National News
Day 26, 2014
NOVEMBER
Commentary:
The decision all known and in the opened now that the officer who shot Michael Brown will not be charged for any negligence in his death. Though, in Ferguson riots and breakouts ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 8:53AM
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Here are some questions to ponder and reflect upon:
Are you feeling that you have to ask for permission to do everything in your life?
Or, that you are staying in a job that you know your should leave because you are not following your passio ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 8:07AM
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Rewind back to 2007 when Bill Cosby had just commenced his nationwide tour of telling poor Black America to pull themselves up by their baggy jeans and get themselves together. Black America was unsettled by what seemed to be a never ending crusade w ...
Posted Wednesday, November 26th 2014 at 8:06AM
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Diversity trainer points to path for growth for all humanity
Lauren Joichin Nile dreams of a world in which humanity replaces racism with love for one another.
Her book RACE: My Story & Humanity’s Bottom Line addresses her personal experiences with racism, the biological oneness of humanity, t ...
Posted Tuesday, November 25th 2014 at 3:13PM
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By KATHY CHANG
Staff Writer
High school students from North Brunswick were enlightened by a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) empowerment workshop earlier this month.
DeVry University of North Brunswick and the Zeta Phi ...
Posted Monday, November 24th 2014 at 12:36PM
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YOUR WORLD/NATIONAL NEWS
DAY 23
November 2014
News of former DC Mayor Marion Barry's death sadden the hearts of many across the the country and in Washington, DC. Barry was 78 years old. Barry departed his life on Sunday, November 23, 2014. ...
Posted Sunday, November 23rd 2014 at 9:41AM
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YOUR WORLD ART NEWS
DAY 20, 2014
A British 18 year old artist worked skillfully over 137 hours in a two weeks period to create a portrait of Morgan Freeman. Jake Ede shared the painstakingly work of art over the r ...
Posted Saturday, November 22nd 2014 at 9:18AM
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YOUR WORLD NEWS
DAY 22, 2014
NOVEMBER
Tokyo, Beijing
Earth shaking quakes took Saturday by rattling Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China. Tokyo experienced a 6.8 quake late Saturday which caused some minor construction damages. Train computes we ...
Posted Saturday, November 22nd 2014 at 9:08AM
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A two-time ASU graduate is being honored for her work as a legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
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The National Foundation of Women Legislators (NFWL) recently selected Alabama State University alumna Lataisha Jackson (‘05) ...
Posted Friday, November 21st 2014 at 5:55PM
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