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This whole idea of paying back loans never seems as nerve-racking as it really is, until you graduate or end your career as a student. The overwhelming, heavy feeling weighs on you like a ton of bric…

*All sarcasm intended So you go to an art school, huh? Is it feeling pretty normal? That’s only because you’re doing it wrong. You see, there are so many expectations attached to schools of this natu…

http://thingsthatblackpeoplelike.wordpress.com/ Parents!? Ok, enough is enough. All video games are NOT like Trix cereal! All video games are not for kids! Mature content in video games vary in degre…

The Hour of Code is now just a few weeks away. If you haven’t heard already, we’re supporting this unprecedented movement to help 10 million students (and adults) try computer science this December (…

Image by Ryan VanWilliams via Flickr creative commons The presence of the divine nine has always been heavy and unwavering. For those readers who aren’t very familiar with the upstanding sororities a…

One month after the 50 th  anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s momentous address, The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. (BWA) celebrated five inspirational women …

My students In an increasingly global society, there is a great demand / opportunity for U.S. native English speakers to work abroad as language teachers. These positions span the range of ages and s…

The Entertainment Software Association, Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF), HHF’s Leaders on the Fast Track (LOFT), and others, today announced a new program to provide minority youths with an oppor…

JRL Enterprises, Inc., creators of the U.S. Department of Education-recognized I CAN Learn® Program , today announced the appointment of Juliana Mims as their new Executive Director of Research. In h…

In about week, I will embark on a brand new academic journey in a new state, city, and school. Starting August 29th I will be pursuing a PhD in African American Studies at University of California B…

I once told a young lady in a political science class, after she debated me and half the other graduate students present regarding some basics of microeconomics, that she needed to go “read something…

The National Black MBA Association ®   (NBMBAA ® ) Annual NBMBAA Entrepreneurial Institute ®   (EI) is accepting applications for its "Innovation Whiteboard Challenge ® ," held during the A…

During the Sunday podcast on Blerd parenting , I said something that I knew would be controversial. (And I’m not talking about the bit about nerds not being extroverts. I get it. We can be social but…