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The first annual Holiday Hoopsgiving college tournament tipped off at State Farm Arena in Downtown Atlanta on Sunday as the 20th ranked Kentucky Wildcats came into town, the local Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets hoped to get their first win of the season on home soil. Both the Yellow Jackets and Wildcats came into the tournament off back to back losses […]
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
Using the Braves, Indians, and Redskins as the names of professional sports teams should be joined with the ranks of the existence of Atlanta Crackers and Atlanta Black Crackers as former team names. Northern and western colleges and universities have abandoned racist mascots but the University of Mississippi still calls their teams the Rebels. Why would a black athlete play []
Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia has declared a state of emergency and authorized the call-up of as many as 1,000 National Guard troops. The National []
Azarian U.S. Gymnastics Training Center coach Vanessa Gonzalez returned to coaching at the Orange County gym Wednesday for the first time since USA Gymnastics found dozens of allegations of physical, verbal and emotional abuse against her and two other Azarian coaches “disturbing,” “credible” and “substantiated.” Gonzalez was cleared Tuesday by Kim Kranz, USA Gymnastics chief […]
From the South to The East, DJ Kay Slay keeps that mixtape vibe alive and well and in his clip to “Get Busy” compiles a gang of spitters to rip it down including OG’s like AZ, Bun B and Benny The Butcher.
Atlanta (AP) – If basketball icon LeBron James gets his way, NBA arenas and other sports venues around the country will be mega polling sites ...
/EIN News/ -- RALEIGH, N.C., June 17, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) is pleased to announce a donation of $125,000 to the African-American Credit Union Coalition (AACUC).
The gift, made on behalf of the 2.5 million members of the Credit Union, reinforces a commitment to partner with the AACUC to advance the mission “to increase diversity within the credit union community through advocacy and professional development.”
In addition, the donation will support the AACUC tenets in the Statement on Diversity which “recognizes the differences and distinctions of each individual, group, or organization that are represented in society and within the credit union movement.”
“The Board of Directors, staff, and membership of State Employees’ Credit Union understand the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in all facets of work and life pursuits,” said Mike Lord, SECU President/CEO.
The SECU Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization funded by the contributions of SECU members, promotes local community development in North Carolina primarily through high impact projects in the areas of housing, education, healthcare and human services.
The NCAA Division I Council voted Wednesday to lift a moratorium on voluntary workouts by football and basketball players effective June 1 as a growing number of college leaders expressed confidence that fall sports will be possible in some form despite concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.
“We encourage each school to use its discretion to make the best decisions possible for football and basketball student-athletes within the appropriate resocialization framework,” Penn athletic director and council chair M. Grace Calhoun said in a statement.
From Notre Dame to LSU and more, a number of schools have announced plans to reopen campuses for the fall semester and conferences have begun setting up plans for how to play football amid the pandemic.
Athletic departments, particularly at smaller schools and in Division II, have already cut a number of sports.
The NCAA this week lowered the minimum and maximum number of games Division II schools are required to play in all sports next year.
Investigators believe Lil Marlo was shot while driving and that he was the intended target. The rap community has lost another rising star.RapperLil Marlo, also known asRudolph Johnson, was shot and killed while driving on Interstate 285 last night. Authorities in downtown Atlanta say []
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Spelman College, a historically black, liberal arts college for women, opened in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1881. The previous year, a fledgling New England organization called the Women’s American Baptist Home Mission Society secured funds for a college for freedwomen in the city. Approximately one hundred African American women soon began attending school at the institution they created, the Atlanta Female Baptist Seminary.
Instructed by four white, northern-born teachers, the students took classes in the basement of an Atlanta church until two of those teachers made a fateful visit to a Cleveland, Ohio Baptist church in June of 1882. Two members of the congregation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller and his wife, Laura Spelman, donated funds to the school. The Rockefellers visited Atlanta to celebrate the third anniversary of the seminary two years later, and during the ceremony, the trustees renamed the institution Spelman to honor Mrs. Rockefellers abolitionist family.
Because Atlanta would not open a black public high school until 1924, the first generation of Spelman students enrolled in courses equivalent to high school instruction. In 1887, Spelman awarded its first diplomas at this level. Two women received the school’s first baccalaureate degrees in 1901.
In Spelman’s first decades, a series of notoriously strict presidents, all friends of the Rockefeller family from the Northeast, required students to adhere to the standards of Victorian-era feminine propriety. Women wore hats and gloves in public, and they needed special written permission to travel off campus. Under the title “domestic training,” they learned domestic skills such as sewing, cooking, and laundry work. Two of the school’s founders, Harriet Giles and Sophia Packard, believed that former slaves lacked correct work habits, so they demanded that Spelman students rise at four thirty each morning to wash and iron their clothes, a practice that continued into the 1920s.
Spelmans curriculum focused heavily on teacher training, although
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Vanderbilt has removed the interim title, making Candice Storey Lee the first woman to become an athletic director in the Southeastern Conference.
That made Lee the first woman to run athletics at Vanderbilt, and she said she was incredibly honored and could not be in this position without the support of Vanderbilt’s leadership, coaches, staff and fans.
Lee joins Carla Williams at Virginia as the only Black women athletic directors at a Power Five school, with Sandy Barbour at Penn State, Jennifer Cohen at Washington and Heather Lyke at Pittsburgh the other women ADs.
She became Vanderbilt’s senior woman administrator in the athletics department in 2004 and deputy athletic director in 2016.
Susan R. Wente, Vanderbilt’s interim chancellor and provost, said Lee hit the ground running after being appointed interim athletic director earlier this year.
The 38-year-old reality star of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” is the granddaughter of civil rights leader and activist Hosea Williams.
In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the recent Black Lives Matter protests, she joined Bravo host Andy Cohen on the Monday, June 8 “Watch What Happens Live” segment, and reflected on the bigotry she encountered while protesting alongside her grandfather.
Her grandfather, famed civil rights leader Rev. Hosea Williams — then an Atlanta City Council member — marched with a group of protesters near Cumming, Georgia.
So of course after that there was a conversation with my dad when I got home to let me know that some people do hate you, even though you may be trying to do a good thing, Williams recalled from the conversation with her father.
On June 1, Williams and her fiancé Dennis McKinley protested in downtown Atlanta to take action against police brutality and systemic racism.
(ThyBlackMan.com) It's a month for the letter 'P,' as in, 'The president is preparing to get pitched out of public housing and is proffering preemptive pardons to his progeny.' Or, for a more proper association, the simple word 'pork.' Oh, sure, my country wallows in a perfect Third World purgatory, but McDonald's brought back the […]
Rawlin Lee Tate Jr., an 18-year old teen from Georgia, has made history as the first Black male valedictorian in his high school. More than that, he has secured $1.3 million in college scholarships. In a now-viral tweet, Tate shared his list of academic accomplishments which included having a 4.7...
