WIVB News 48h
Crass or cool, awesome or eyesore: Big 12 Tournament’s logo’d court makes a statement either way
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark wanted the league’s postseason tournament to reflect his idealized version of the league — young, hip, upscale and current — and ...
NBC News16d
American Airlines flight diverted to Rome due to bomb threat
An American Airlines flight traveling from New York to New Delhi was diverted to Rome Sunday due to a bomb threat, according to a source familiar with the situation. In a statement, American ...
Commercial Appeal20d
Black colleges reflect our history and our future. Do we still need HBCUs? Yes! | Opinion
HBCUs in Tennessee – LeMoyne-Owen, Lane, Tennessee State, Fisk, Meharry Medical College and American Baptist College and Knoxville College – generate $992.1 million in economic impact ...
Philadelphia Inquirer22d
Firefighters subdue large blaze at North Philly church
A large fire erupted Monday night at United Missionary Baptist Church in North Philadelphia. Shortly after 7:40 p.m., the Philadelphia Fire Department reported that it was involved in a large response ...
The Washington Informer22d
The Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley Touts Value of HBCUs
Harris, president of American Baptist College on Sunday, Feb. 9. (Courtesy photo) While he didn’t attend a historically Black college or university (HBCU), the Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley, pastor of ...
WNDU22d
H. Gregory Haygood becomes South Bend’s longest tenured Baptist pastor
Pilgrim is the city’s first African American Baptist church, which went by a different name upon its founding in 1890. The building you see today occupied this same space since 1925. Over that ...
WTOP News22d
One of the country’s largest African American Baptist churches pulls Christmas show from Kennedy Center
The Alfred Street Baptist Church of Alexandria has decided to cancel its annual Christmas performance at D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The move follows President Donald Trump’s complaints that the ...
wjla22d
Alfred Street Baptist Church ends contract with the Kennedy Center
"After prayerful consideration, deliberation, and discerning, the Alfred Street Baptist Church, one of the oldest and largest African American Baptist Churches in the nation, has made the ...
Daily Journal26d
Baptist Union County to offer heart scans for American Heart Month
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County will offer $50 HeartScore screenings, also known as coronary calcium scans, throughout February for American Heart Month. HeartScore screenings are a ...
The Atlantic27d
The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now
That may sound like editors are weeding out the literature more aggressively as it expands. And the news is in some ways good—but even now, far more papers should be retracted than are retracted.
WTOP News27d
Where 20 Black Civil Rights Leaders Went to College
Here’s where 20 Black civil rights leaders went to college. Martin Luther King Jr. King spearheaded the American Civil Rights Movement, changing the course of history through nonviolent protest ...