Missed opportunities seal demise for top-seeded Morehouse With the score tied at 86, the Florida Southern Mocs had an opportunity to steal a win at Forbes Arena with 11 seconds remaining in the game. They failed to take advantage at that moment but so did the number-one seeded Morehouse Maroon Tigers, who squandered a second-half […]
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Howard University heads to Puerto Rico: Students give up spring break to help in recovery efforts
When Oluwakanyinsola Adebola signed up to do community service as part of Howard University’s Alternative Spring Break, she knew she wouldn’t be joining her classmates and thousands of other college students who use their week off to party and play in the sun and surf of Jamaica or Aruba or any of a half dozen […]
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Facebook robots may one day follow you around at home
That is, if a newly awarded Facebook patent ever becomes a reality. The company received a patent on Tuesday for a self-balancing robot that’s capable of standing on either two or three legs. The concept resembles a telepresence robot, complete with a screen, camera and microphone. It’s unclear what Facebook might do with a telepresence robot, but […]
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New Metro Atlanta charter school fills public school gap, now accepting applications
Genesis Innovation Academy is a State-Approved Charter School that offers gender-specific instruction, small class sizes and coding for students. Photo courtesy of Twitter. Genesis Innovation Academy, a free public charter school, is boosting major success after its first year of operation. The elementary school is hosting multiple information sessions for parents interested in enrolling their children for […]
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Why McDonald’s is flipping its arches for a day
McDonald’s is celebrating International Women’s Day with a big, gleaming, W. “For the first time in our brand history, we flipped our iconic arches,” said McDonald’s Chief Diversity Officer Wendy Lewis. The giant arches have been physically flipped at just one California restaurant. On Thursday, International Women’s Day, upside-down arches will replace rightside-up arches across […]
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FDA approval of self testing for breast cancer genes comes with cautions
The US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval Tuesday to a 23andMe test that screens for a few breast and ovarian cancer genes, but that approval came with a number of caveats and cautions. It is described by the FDA as the first direct-to-consumer test to report on three specific BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations that are most common in people […]
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Amazon may eventually have 70 million banking customers
America could soon have a mega-competitor to its biggest banks: Amazon. Amazon could wind up with more than 70 million banking customers over the next five years if it started to offer checking and other financial products, according to a recent report from management consulting giant Bain & Co. To put that in context, that’s […]
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Oprah asked God for a clear sign. She got one on national TV.
Did Oprah Winfrey just get a message from God? The actress and talk show maven generated presidential buzz earlier this year after giving a rousing speech at the Golden Globe Awards. But weeks later, she appeared to shoot down speculation about a potential 2020 run against President Donald Trump, saying she prayed over the issue but […]
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City of Atlanta, MARTA awarded $12.6 Million federal TIGER grant
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms today announced that the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT) has awarded the City of Atlanta and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) a $12.6 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. The $12.6 million grant will help fund a $48.6 million, 9.4-mile route of Bus Rapid Transit […]
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Alicia Boler Davis Honored with 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Award
The US Black Engineer & Information Technology (USBE&IT) magazine recently celebrated the history-making career of Alicia Boler Davis, the executive vice president of global manufacturing for General Motors, by honoring her with the 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Award, during the BEYA gala in Washington, D.C. Boler Davis is the sixth woman to receive […]
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Second nor’easter in a week kills 1, knocks out power for hundreds of thousands
Hundreds of thousands of homes in the Northeast were without electricity Thursday, a day after the region’s second major storm in a week left at least one person dead and whipped the area with heavy snow and stiff winds, downing power lines and leaving precarious road conditions. The nor’easter may drop several inches of snow […]
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Guess what? The Fight is Fixed, You Won
Some of you may remember that I declared this some time ago and it bears repeating. I wish it was original, but it is not. It comes straight from the pulpit and not from me. Circumstances in my life and maybe yours have me drifting from time to time. I don’t believe any Christian should […]
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Three things I learned from a sex worker
There are numerous examples in the Bible we could study on how to live our lives. Abraham and Sarah taught us how to have patience while waiting for the promise. Joseph reminded us that the vision from God will surely come to past in the right season at the right divine time. The Bible also […]
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Let’s change ‘Runaway Negro Creek’ to ‘Freedom Creek’
Down near the coast of Georgia, nestled between an old Confederate plantation—now a Skidaway Island historic site—and a small island called the Isle of Hope, is a small inlet called “Runaway Negro Creek.” The name is not a metaphor but a window into our country’s dark history. This creek tells the story of an […]
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Tech influencers join forces with creatives to ignite future app ideas, inspire entrepreneurship at conference for teens
In a session designed to motivate teens to consider opportunities in tech, songwriter Ronnie Eric urged a captive audience, “If you love to do it, pursue it!” Meanwhile, to his left, East Los Angeles-based artist Daniel Flores was live sketching a painting that couldn’t wait until the end of Eric’s talk to be completed. Flores […]