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DECATUR -- Laron Walker never forgot meeting the late Dr. Frank Greene in an airport. Like Greene, Walker received a masters degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
From that point, Greene encouraged Walker to follow in his footsteps as an innovator and entrepreneur.
WASHINGTON -- The Smithsonian Institution and Monticello will present the daylong webinar “Jefferson: Revolutionary Thinker” Friday, April 27, from 9:50 a.m. to 3:50 p.m.
OAKLAND -- Dr. Elsie Scott, president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, hopes the 2012 campaign turns to her focus -- the impact of the Affordable Care Act.
"I wish the President would talk more about all the positive changes because of the Affordable Care Act, particularly with respect to health disparities," said Scott in an exclusive interview on Black America and Capitol Hill on ReUNION: Education-Arts-Heritage.
Scott has led the foundation for more than six years as the operational arm of the Congressional Black Caucus. "We published a guide on the Affordable Care Act so that our constituency would understand all the changes."
The 60th commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet is Adm. Cecil D. Haney, who took command in January. Adm. Haney, a native of Washington, D.C., is a 1978 graduate of the United States Naval Academy where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Engineering.
The Eastern High School graduate is one of two D.C. high school alumni responsible for protecting the U.S. West Coast along with Coast Guard Vice Adm. Manson Brown, Pacific Area commander.
NEW LONDON, CT -- Vice Admiral Manson K. Brown returned Sunday to the Coast Guard Academy as an honoree in the annual Eclipse Week, embodying what the academy's focus on diversity has meant. He was also recently cited at the annual National Society of Black Engineers conference and during the centennial observance for Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.
SAN FRANCISCO-- From deep sea research in the Pacific with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada, Dr. Lisa White is rocking.
Since 2005, Dr. Andrew B. Williams' Spelbots have been competing with the best robotics students around the world to program robots for tasks such as playing soccer or dancing.
Students from the ARTSI campuses had a competition to have robots place a round object in a square box.
Dr. Andrew B. Williams is a recognized leader in inspiring women and underutilized populations to pursue and achieve excellence in computing and robotics education and research. He is actively involved in recruiting, retaining, and motivating underrepresented students to pursue undergraduate and graduate computing and engineering careers through community outreach events,computer and robotics summer camps, competitions, curriculum development and research experiences. TOMORROW's TechSwag features Mary Spio.
Sandra L. Barnes, president of the Association of Black Sociologists, issued the following statement in support of protests against the slaying of Trayvon Martin:
Minority students across America face harsher discipline, have less access to rigorous high school curricula, and are more often taught by lower-paid and less experienced teachers, according to the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).
Phelps Vocational High School, under the leadership of principal Michael Johnson, is providing District of Columbia public students with a highly competitive environment for cutting edge careers, using the four-year-old campus as part of the learning environment.
WASHINGTON -- While African-American children in most schools around the country face suspensions, special education placement and irrelevant content, Leshell Hatley, an engineering graduate from Howard University, has forged a group of D.C. students into national technology superstars in her program Uplift Inc.
INDIANAPOLIS -- When people know about Crispus Attucks, it moves them to action.
The California legislature made the anniversary of his death in March 5, 1770 as the first to fall in the Boston Massacre an education holiday "on which day schools shall include exercises and instruction on the development of black people in the United States."
The concluding session of the seven week course Come to the Water: Teaching San Francisco Black History takes place March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Latino-Hispanic Reading Room of the San Francisco Main Library.
In Indianapolis Public Schools, led by Dr. Eugene White, the Crispus Attucks Center holds the IPS Office of Multicultural Education (OME) and the Crispus Attucks Museum. The OME opened in 1987 and the Museum, in 1998. The center is located on the campus of Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School, 1140 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street. The museum features famous alumni of the school, including basketball stars Oscar Robertson and Greg Oden. In York, PA, the Crispus Attucks Association operates a variety of community programs, including a charter school.
Come to the Water is a textbook designed to meet the California history/social science standards as a psycho-social intervention to meet the objectives of the Education Code. A reporter for the Times local partner, Bay Citizen, attended a session of the seven-week course on teaching S.F. black history at Hannibal Lodge No. 1, the oldest Prince Hall lodge in the West. The course concludes with a summary on Monday, March 5 at 4:30 p.m. in the Latino-Hispanic Reading Room of the San Francisco Main Library to mark Black American Day.
In section 37221, the state Education Code designates: "(d) March 5, the anniversary of the death of Crispus Attucks, the first black American martyr of the Boston Massacre, known as "Black American Day" on which day schools shall include exercises and instruction on the development of black people in the United States."
SAN FRANCISCO -- The long-overlooked importance of African-American engineer and innovator Gerald A. Lawson is the subject of A Great Day in Gaming: From Queens to Silicon Valley: The Gerald A. Lawson Story, a documentary being screened Sunday, March 4 at 6 p.m. at Marcus Books, 1712 Fillmore St. Two of the top African-American game developer pioneers, Rob Miles, and Gordon Bellamy are among the special guests for the screening. Both are among the 12th annual 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology.
SAN FRANCISCO -- LeRoy King lives 100 yards from Rosa Parks Elementary School, emblazoned with a colorful mural by Santee Huckaby showing Parks among a group of admiring youth.
SAN LEANDRO -- "I didn't think I would live to see 17 or ...18 or ...25," intoned Staff Sgt. Corey Curl of the U.S. Air Force, as everyone in the audience at Alameda County Juvenile Hall leaned forward to hear what would come next.
WASHINGTON -- Funds which can provide math and science teachers and labs for students who are the intended target of federal education aid are being spent away from those students by hard-pressed school districts, an expert on educational finance equity told Innovation & Equity 2012.
PHILADELPHIA -- An expert in educational financing suggests that parents learn how to follow the money that goes to schools with a heavy concentration of black youth.
PHILADELPHIA -- Rear Adm. John King told a group of teenagers the U.S. Navy would reach into their classrooms to prepare them for high technology careers, during a holiday party for the MESA program at Temple University.
