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Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Virginia Hamilton, THE BEST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHILDREN'S AUTHOR EVER! You have to check out her story and her many 'firsts' in children's literature. http

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Toni Morrison, Novelist, Pulitzer Price Winner, and the first Black women to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and to hold a named chair at an Ivy League Un

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Ronald Mason, Chief Executive Officer of the only university based in the largest metropolitan area and capital city of the state of Mi

Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates James Baldwin, author and civil rights activist. Watch/listen to clips of him at various points of his life. Check him out now! http://blackscholarsinde

In an information age that offers an explosion of technology reading skills is one sound way to help children to succeed in school. Too often parents set children in front of a television or computer

Today, The Black Scholars Index proudly features Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis, the 1st African-American PhD in Computer Science. His story is timely (for several reasons) and Google Wave can be traced b

Today, The Black Scholars Index highlights award-winning Janice Huff, NBC4 Meteorologist and the voice of Stormy Gale, an animated meteorologist on PBS Kids' CyberChase. http://blackscholarsindex.c

The iSchool at the University of Maryland is seeking an Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing. If you are interested, please visit http://ischool.umd.edu/about/careers/cloudcomputing.shtml for more d

As we do every Tuesday... Today, The Black Scholars Index celebrates Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers, the 4th President of Norfolk State University. She is amazing and her accomplishments

Join me for my blogtalkradio program titled "How to Get Admitted to College"at http://www.blogtalkradio/dr-stephen-jones, at 6:30 pm. today. Deneen Brown is my special guest

Every day in many large cities 25 percent or more of the students in middle and high school do not show up for school. They have lost faith in the school system where they are consistently three to

A few weeks ago when Congressman Joe Wilson called President Obama a liar it was infuriating. It was clear that this feeling was in his heart and he could not hold it back. It expressed a sentiment