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Virginia State University, USAID Pitch In To Help South Sudan Grow
Virginia State University and Virginia Tech have partnered to help the University of Juba and the Catholic University of Sudan develop a curriculum to teach South Sudanese farmers through community outreach.
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Cultural Currents
Dr. Pamela D. Reed navigates the often treacherous white waters of America's ever-changing cultural landscape. Come what may, she keeps it moving-the dialogue, that is.
And the mercy seat is waiting
And I think my head is burning
And in a way I’m yearning
To be done with all this weighing of the truth.
And eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth
And anyway I told the truth
And I’m not afraid to die.
~”The Mercy Seat”
Johnny Cash’s classic rendition of the death row anthem, “The Mercy Seat,” at one point, filled the airwaves, thanks to what some have called the award-winning coverage of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Their video stream was one of few, if not the only nonstop, live broadcast outside the Georgia Diagnostic Prison, where 42 year-old Troy Anthony Davis, on death row for two decades, was scheduled for his turn on the “mercy seat.”
But there was no mercy to be had. In the end, Davis was pronounced dead at 11:08, 21 Sept. 2011.
I learned of Troy Davis’ fate as I lay in the still of my darkened bedroom, unable to move, other than to ...
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Emerging Scholars
Second Black Graduate of University of Mississippi Dies
Along with James Meredith and another student, Cleveland Donald Jr. entered Ole Miss under a federal protection order.
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Robert Franklin to Step Down as Morehouse College President
Morehouse College has announced that school president Dr. Robert M. Franklin will spend the 2012-13 academic year on sabbatical as a Scholar-in-Residence at Stanford University’s Martin Luther King Jr. Institute.
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FAMU Campus Organizations Suspended From Taking in New Members
Florida A & M University, in the aftermath of the recent death of a FAMU band member after a hazing incident, issued a sweeping ban Tuesday on campus club intake for the remainder of the school year.
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Black Students Seeking Action on Racial Climate at Duke
A group of Black students at Duke University are continuing their push to force college administrators to improve the racial climate on campus.
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