HBCU Blues: America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century

What makes "great universities" great is a continued effort towards improvement by the faculty, students, and alumni. Perhaps the issue that HBCUs face is the fact that this is lacking. How many students in high school even know that there are 105 HBCUs? How many know that Howard and Fisk were once talked about in the same breath as Harvard and Yale? The key, as in all things, is the education of the community as to the various opportunities available regarding colleges.

Just as a point of thought for everyone, how helpful to HBCUs would it be if the states that they reside in took them on as "state" schools?

HBCU Blues: America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the 21st Century

In the mid 1980s, Bill Cosby's highly popular television program, A Different World and Spike Lee's influential film School Daze promoted a complimentary image of black colleges and universities as rigorous institutions of higher learning where black students could be free to pursue the fruits of a college education in a welcoming and nurturing environment among people with the same cultural background and values. I...

Celeb Pays It Forward, Correctly

This is beautiful. I wish more people to whom much was given would pay it back to our youth. The only jobs that will be created will be jobs that innovation­s in technology create. This country has to get back to making money using its brains. Much of the money that we, as a country, earn comes from patents we hold because of our Space Program.

It is truly amazing to me that politician­s do not spend ANYtime fighting over investing in the future via the youth of this nation. This is the best article of the week.

Science Is Rockin' Roll and Technology Is Recession Proof

Close your eyes and think about today. Think about the United States of America. Think about the state of education. Think about the state of job creation. Think about the state of mind we are in. Think about what our country might look like in 20 years. Now think about and wonder why and who and when and what it's going to take for Detroit not to turn into a slum. What is it going to take for my niece...

Remnants of Abu Ghraib

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Charles Graner Released: Abu Ghraib Abuse Ringleader Set Free From Kansas Prison

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The convicted ringleader of detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib was released Saturday from a military prison, an Army spokeswoman said. Charles Graner Jr., 42, was released from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., around 10 a.m.

He is classless. I am sure that the US military and Intelligen­ce community has better techniques then pyramid stacking and watching live gay prison porn to soften up war detainees. It was embarrassi­ng then and is an embarrassm­ent now.

Introducing HuffPost BlackVoices: Covering Black America's Split-Screen Reality

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Ms. Huff does it again. Regardless of the reasoning behind it, she has decided to tap into another market that is being ignored. Hopefully, there really is some hard-hitti­ng news that will come to light for the masses, instead of being hidden by the Black community. Discussion is necessary for change.

Introducing HuffPost BlackVoices: Covering Black America's Split-Screen Reality

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Surveying the current national and international landscape, I often feel that we are living in a split-screen world. And depending on what part of the screen you are looking at, you will have a very different perception of where things stand. Nowhere is this split-screen reality more pronounced than...