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THE HBCU ADVOCATE


Our Future Depends On It www.thehbcuadvocate.com


Serving HBCU Alumni, Students, Faculty, Staff and Friends


Texas College Library


Launches The Common Book, 'The Pact'


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Nation Mourns HBCU Grad, Congressman Elijah Cummings


NC A&T Wins Decisively Over Norfolk State


HU's William R. & Norma B. Harvey Library Hosts Breast Cancer Event


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Sigma Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Hosts HBCU College Fair


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High school guidance counselors and HBCU admissions officers participate in panel discussion to kick-off the HBCU college fair. Photo courtesy of Sigma Tau Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.


BY NICOLE GYE’NYAME Historically


BY BRENDA BUCHANON, CONTRIBUTING WRITER Rep. Elijah


Eugene


Cummings (January 18, 1951 – October 17, 2019) dies at age 68. He succumbed to “longstanding health issues” at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore,


Maryland at


approximately 2:45 a.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2019, according to his congressional office. Cummings, who was a revered civil rights activist and staunch supporter of education, graduated


Black Colleges and from the famed


HBCU- Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland to parents, Ruth Elma and Robert Cummings, Sr. A son of sharecroppers from South Carolina who moved


to better there socioeconomic status in the 1940s, Cummings rose from his close-knit family and neighborhood in Baltimore to the halls of the United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. eventually serving as the Democratic chair of the powerful U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee, which is currently involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump.


Even upon his deathbed,


Cummings was deliberate in his search for justice: He signed two subpoenas as part of his congressional oversight, according to reports. Dr. Maya Rockeymoore


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THIS EDITION’S HIGHLIGHTS Nice, France: The Rest of the Story


HBCU Sports HBCU Careers Upcoming Events Scholarships Watch


EEOC Executive Leadership Training Jazz Xpressions ACLS Medical School Scholarship


Universities in the U.S. were initially established to provide Blacks access and entry to institutions of higher education. Brown versus Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement, in the 1950s and 1960s made historical gains to end segregation and demand that everyone regardless of race have access to quality education. Many states in the U.S. especially in Southern states denied Blacks


access to enter their educational institutions. Today HBCUs stand as a bastion of learning, research, pride, tradition and a unique cultural experience for people around the world. Students of any race, creed, color, socio-economic back ground can gain admission to the more than 100 HBCUs in the U.S. There are public and private HBCU institutions. Today students have the right to attend any institution of higher education


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LA County Leaders Honor McNair as Tuskegee's First Female President


nation. It also marked McNair’s milestone as the first female president in the university’s 138-year history.


Supervisor Janice Hahn, who chairs


of the five-person Board of Supervisors, commended McNair for her leadership and her focus on providing Tuskegee students — specifically those from California — with a quality education.


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President McNair with Supervisors Ridley-Thomas and Hahn, and Tuskegee Board of Trustees Chair Norma Clayton


BY TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY Met with cheers from dozens of Tuskegee


University alumni clad in crimson and gold, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, as “Dr. Lily D. McNair and Tuskegee University Day.”


The Board of Supervisors presented


McNair with a scroll commemorating her day of honor at its regularly scheduled meeting at the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration in Downtown Los Angeles. The document and specially proclaimed day celebrated the university’s impact on its students and the


Tuskegee University alumni, and apparently the graduating class of 2019 was dominated by students from Los Angeles,” Hahn said.


Along an honorific scroll, Hahn presented


McNair with a letter penned and signed by Tuskegee’s founding president, Booker T. Washington, on Oct. 17, 1910. Hahn’s father Kenneth, who served as a county supervisor for 40 years and is the namesake of the county’s governmental headquarters, acquired the letter, which he framed and hung in his office during his tenure with the county.


Fellow county supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas joined Hahn in touting the university’s noteworthy achievements — the nation’s only center for bioethics in health care and research of its kind included among


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