by Cherie S. White | Mar 29, 2024
Procrastination can be our biggest obstacle in achieving our goals. Adopt these small but powerful habits to keep stalling at bay. -Take that first step. Find the easiest thing to do to get the ball rolling.Commit to the task for 5 minutes. Set a timer to begin and...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 29, 2024
Rosa Parks and her defiant act of refusing to give up her seat in December 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. helped push the Civil Rights Movement forward. Nine months before that incident however, Claudette Colvin stood up for her right to sit where she pleased on a...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 29, 2024
Alcorn State made history in the early 1980s when it won the first-ever opening round game in NCAA tournament history. Since then, HBCUs have played in 27 out of the 38 opening round or First Four games (71 percent). From 2001-2010, an opening round, play-in game was...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 27, 2024
Want a good workout without too much fuss? Try this two-exercise workout that works the arms, tones the legs and gets the heart rate up for a good cardio burnout. Do the following ascending ladder workout, beginning with 2 repetitions for each exercise. Then continue...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 27, 2024
Nancy L. Dupree was a schoolteacher in Rochester, New York who came to the North with hopes of teaching America’s future. In her short time as a teacher, Ms. Dupree injected radical ideas into her daily curriculum which culminated in the release of a rare album...
by Cherie S. White | Mar 27, 2024
It’s an accepted spring break axiom that you can retake a class but you can’t relive a party. Until now, that’s been true of Freaknik, the annual bass-rattling spring break street party that drew hundreds of thousands of Black college students to Atlanta throughout...