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Let's "Bring It" this month for Texas Southern University! The Texas Southern University National Alumni Association is sending out a challenge to all Texas Southern University alumni chapters.

So we're calling ALL TSU students, faculty, alumni & supporters as the HBCU Campaign & the Tom Joyner Foundation has named Texas Southern University as our 'HBCU of the Month' of June.

We invited you to support the "Bring It" Campaign & unleash your Tiger Pride! To learn more about this campaign and to make a contribution, you can do so by going here.

Thank you for your support of Texas Southern University! TxSU.

The D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign names Texas Southern University as their "HBCU of the Month" of June.

During the HBCU Campaign's "HBCU of the Month" initiative, the HBCU selected is celebrated through it's history, faculty and staff member as well as students and the student leaders who attend.

The HBCU Campaign also go out and campaign money donate to their 'HBCU of the Month' to send to the school to add to their budget to help improve their campus such as organizations and campus beautification. Scholarship money is also asked for during the 'HBCU of the Month' initiative.

If you would like to donate to the Tigers of Texas Southern University, you may do so. All of the HBCU Campaign donations are collected through PayPal.

You will also receive prizes in according to your donations: $1-25 will receive an HBCU Campaign magnet, $25-50 will receive an free HBCU Campaign calendar and donations $50 & up will receive an free HBCU Campaign T-shirt, calendar and the 'HBCU of the Month' magnet.

All donations are very appreciated and are accepted through PayPal here.

Thank you for being an Campaigner

RALEIGH, NC - Just after one day of announcing that the North Carolina State Senate will  do an budget proposal study into closing Elizabeth City State University, which draw national attention across the nation, legislators in the North Carolina Senate have removed the provision from their version of the proposal.

Outcry students,  executives, black legislators, HBCU alumni and supporters in North Carolina and around the nation flooded social media in regards of saving which is more than an university but a piece of rich history. ECSU is an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).

Posting pictures such as "Save Our HBCUs", "Save ECSU" and using hashtags #saveECSU and #StopKillingECSU.

There was an petition flowing around the web also to have everyone who supports ECSU from not closing to sign and would be sent to Senator Bill Cook and the North Carolina State legislators. The prospal, a $21 billion package that included raises for teachers, sought to dissolve institutions which has enrollment decreases of more then 20 percent in the last four academic years; was specifically targeting Elizabeth City State University,

The state Senate unanimously approved an amendment Friday that removed a provision from a bill which could had led to ECSU closing. Senator Bill Cook proposed the amendment Friday.

Sen. Cook issued the following statement on the Senate budget provision:

"ECSU has had its fair share of problems in the past few years, but I do not think this study is the best way to begin addressing them," Cook said. "I have prepared an amendment and after my discussion with Senate leadership they have agreed to support the elimination of the provision completely from the budget."

Friday afternoon, Chancellor Becton held a town hall with concerned students and faculty.

Becton tried to calm nerves, pointing out that the provision in the senate budget hasn't yet passed.

He acknowledged the school's issues, but says the entire campus community is working hard to turn things around. 

"We have had enrollment declines for three straight years now.  And that has been a concern.  We have beefed up our recruitment efforts," Becton said. 

"We are grateful that the proposed budget provision has been removed from the Senate budget bill. We are grateful to Senators Cook, Berger, Davis and Apodaca for their efforts. ECSU is grateful for the broad-based support received for Representative Steinberg, Mayor Peel and other Elizabeth City area community leaders, our constituents and all who showed their support. ECSU will continue on its plan to right-size and increase enrollment," said Chancellor Charles Becton

We have an awesome opportunity from our fellow Campaign Breonna Ward, who is an HBCU All-Star for the White House initiative on HBCU's representing Grambling State University. She recently received an e-mail that would like to share with the entire HBCU Nation. The e-mail is from the Department of Education about "A once in a lifetime opportunity to be apart of civil rights history." This historic event is sponsor by The Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education and will take place on Thursday, July 3, 2014. which is the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.

They are currently looking for the following to participate: ARTISTS, FILM MAKERS, UP and COMING STUDENT ACTIVISTS and LEADERS or ANYONE INTERESTED to participate. This is for both UNDERGRAD and GRADUATE school students of Historically Black Colleges & Universities. If you are chosen you will be able to attend a one day event with senior Obama administration and some of the original Freedom Writers.

The deadline for the application to participate is this Friday, May 30, 2014... so ACT NOW!

If you have any further questions you may send us an e-mail at hbcucampaign@djsmusicsite.com and we will be glad to assist you.

To celebrate the new brand of the HBCU Campaign and also our 'HBCU of the Month' initiative. The HBCU Campaign is launching it's #KeepHBCUsAlive initiative and fundraiser. The HBCU Campaign mission is to campaign money to help our prestigious universities and scholarships for their students.

Our #KeepHBCUsAlive fundraiser is hosted by CustomInk and Booster, where we are selling 50 t-shirt with our brand on it for $20 + $5 shipping and it will go for a month, all of the extra proceeds will go to our 'HBCU of the Month' supported HBCUs of 2014 and to help students out with scholarship money opportunities. If you do not want to buy an t-shirt, you do have the option to donate as you wish.

The HBCU Campaign is working to keep our HBCUs alive as well as celebrate and honor the history, achievements, and accomplishments of these historically intuitions. Later as we grow, our goal will be too host events for HBCU students as well as alumni.

If you will like to help the HBCU Campaign in our mission to #KeepHBCUsAlive, and purchase an HBCU Campaign brand t-shirt or donation, you may do so here.

Also continue to the pledge by posting either a selfie of you in your HBCU t-shirt or tweeting something about HBCUs using hashtag #KeepHBCUsAlive.

TALLAHASSE, Fla. - According to source, the NCAA has put a postseason ban for the Florida A&M University football and basketball programs for the 2014-15 seasons. The school has lost appeals to block the bans after reporting Academic Progress Rates below the NCAA baseline.

The APR measures academic benchmarks over a four-year period. The NCAA requires that a score of 910 while the football team only scored 885 and the basketball team scored 900. The teams will not be eligible for Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular season championships or any postseason tournaments.

FAMU's Athletic director Kellen Winslow says the department is "implementing APR improvement plans."

Those plans include to increased academic support for all athletes with monitored study hall, tutored session and programs to develop study and time management skills. Coaching staffs will be required to attend Academic Eligibility Rules Education sessions.

The HBCU Campaign celebrates Florida A&M University as our 'HBCU of the Month' of May.

The Anniversary of the Brown V Board of Education: What Happened in the Court Room in 1954

On May 17, 1954, a hushed crowd of spectators pack the Supreme Court, awaiting word on Brown vs. Board of Education, a combination of five lawsuits brought by the NAACP's legal arm to challenge racial segregation in public schools. The high court decided unanimously that "separate but equal" education denied black children their constitutional right to equal protection under the law, effectively removing a cornerstone that propped up Jim Crow, or state-sanctioned segregation of the races.

The Supreme Court ruled today that the states of the nation do not have the right to separate Negro and white pupils in different public schools.

By a unanimous 9-0 vote, the high court held that such segregation of the races is unconstitutional. The ruling does not end segregation at once.

Gov. Herman Talmadge, one of the most outspoken supporters of segregation, hit back from Atlanta that the court's decision had reduced the constitution to "a mere scrap of paper."

"It has blatantly ignored all law and precedent and usurped from the Congress and the people the power to amend the Constitution and from the Congress the authority to make the laws of the land," Talmadge said.

Thurgood Marshall, Negro attorney from New York who had argued the case against segregation in December of 1953, said he was highly pleased that the decision was unanimous and that the language used was unequivocal.

"Once the decision is made public to the South as well as to the North," Marshall said, "The people will get together for the first time and work this thing out."

He said he was not in any way fearful lest the final decree nibble away at the principles in the decision. Marshall said, too, he believes the people of the South will abide by the ruling. "The people of the South are just as law abiding as any other good citizens," he said.

Marshall is a special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which has spearheaded the drive against segregation. He said NAACP people will meet this week to discuss "what we are going to do."

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60TH ANNIVERSARY OF BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION  BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

May 17, 1954, marked a turning point in America's journey toward a more perfect Union. On that day, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in our Nation's schools. Brown overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal," which the Court had established in the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson. For more than half a century, Plessy gave constitutional backing to discrimination, and civil rights organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People faced an uphill battle as they sought equality, opportunity, and justice under the law.

Brown v. Board of Education shifted the legal and moral compass of our Nation. It declared that education "must be made available to all on equal terms" and demanded that America's promise exclude no one. Yet the Supreme Court alone could not destroy segregation. Brown had unlocked the schoolhouse doors, but even years later, African-American children braved mobs as they walked to school, while U.S. Marshals kept the peace. From lunch counters and city streets to buses and ballot boxes, American citizens struggled to realize their basic rights. A decade after the Court's ruling, Brown's moral guidance was translated into the enforcement measures of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Thanks to the men and women who fought for equality in the courtroom, the legislature, and the hearts and minds of the American people, we have confined legalized segregation to the dustbin of history. Yet today, the hope and promise of Brown remains unfulfilled. In the years to come, we must continue striving toward equal opportunities for all our children, from access to advanced classes to participation in the same extracurricular activities. Because when children learn and play together, they grow, build, and thrive together.

On the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, let us heed the words of Justice Thurgood Marshall, who so ably argued the case against segregation, "None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody...bent down and helped us pick up our boots." Let us march together, meet our obligations to one another, and remember that progress has never come easily -- but even in the face of impossible odds, those who love their country can change it.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 17, 2014, as the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. I call upon all Americans to observe this day with programs, ceremonies, and activities that celebrate this landmark decision and advance the causes of equality and opportunity for all.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fifteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-eighth.

BARACK OBAMA

The D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign names Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University as their "HBCU of the Month" of May.

During the HBCU Campaign's "HBCU of the Month" initiative, the HBCU selected is celebrated through it's history, faculty and staff member as well as students and the student leaders who attend.

The HBCU Campaign also go out and campaign money donate to their 'HBCU of the Month' to send to the school to add to their budget to help improve their campus such as organizations and campus beautification. Scholarship money is also asked for during the 'HBCU of the Month' initiative.

If you would like to donate to the Rattlers of Florida A&M University, you may do so. All of the HBCU Campaign donations are collected through PayPal.

You will also receive prizes in according to your donations: $1-25 will receive an HBCU Campaign magnet, $25-50 will receive an free HBCU Campaign calendar and donations $50 & up will receive an free HBCU Campaign T-shirt.

All donations are very appreciated and are accepted through PayPal here.

Thank you for being an Campaigner

According to source, The Grambling State University presidential search committee hopes to have a new president selected by October, but committee members told Grambling suppers Thursday they'll take as long as needed to find the perfect candidate.

GSU President Frank Pogue is plan to retire as president effective June 30 after serving five years.

UL System President Sandra Woodley said if the cost to hire a search firm is more than $50,00 then the system by state law has to accept bids for the service. That may push back the tentative timeline, she said.

Most of the public comments centered on the need for the next president to be a good recruiter, fundraiser and student-oriented.

Pogue is the eighth president in GSU's 113-year history.

"Rep your campus, Rep your HBCU!"

Become a part of the HBCU Campaign vision to 'Celebrate HBCUs around the Nation' and become an Campus Representative. As a Campus Rep, you will:

*Engaging HBCU pride on your campus.

*Start HBCU Campaign Street Teams.

*Promote unity by connecting and engaging with other HBCU students.

*Campus Rep outings, mix n mingles, field trips with fellow Campus reps.

*Being an mentor for other on the importance of an education, an HBCU education and HBCUs as well as guide them to remain in college.

*Report in events and news of your campus.

To apply, you can fill out the application here. If you would like more information about the Campus Representative program, e-mail us: hbcucampaign@djsmusicsite.com.

Frankfort, KY -- Mary Evans Sias announced Friday that she will retire June 30 after serving 10 years as president of Kentucky State University in Frankfort, the state's only historically black university.
Sias is the only female president among the state's public universities.

Sias, 63, in a statement released by the university, said: "The last 10 years at Kentucky State have been truly the most rewarding of my 36-year career in high education."

"While there is always more that could be done, now seems like the right time to step aside and let the next person provide the momentum to continue to move the needle forward for KSU."

Karen Bearden, chairwoman of the KSU Board of Regents, said in a statement that the board will have an interim president in place by July 1. The statement also said the board will "move quickly" to select a search firm and develop a presidential search process to conduct a national search.

Sias' retirement comes at a time when KSU has been under increasing scrutiny -- from within and without -- about its low graduation rates.

In May 2012, KSU's graduation rate hit 14 percent. An enrollment decline resulted in a $4.8 million loss of revenue for the year. The graduation rate rose to 18 percent in 2013.

The Frankfort State Journal reported in January that KSU's six-year graduation rate is higher than only 8 percent of accredited four-year historically black colleges and universities in the continental United States. In a ranking of 85 historically black schools comparable to KSU, the school ranked 78th in terms of six-year graduation rates, the paper found. The paper also reported that KSU's rate has steadily dropped -- it was 41 percent 10 years ago.

That same month, Sias presented the university's plan to increase retention and graduation rates to the Board of Regents. The plan included projections to increase graduation rates by 20 percent for this fall and by 31 percent for fall 2016.

Kentucky State has had difficulties in dealing with budget deficits. Historically black colleges and universities are vulnerable because they are committed to educating low-income and disadvantaged students. And they are tuition-driven, so when students aren't enrolling or can't pay tuition, it affects their bottom lines according to Kentucky.com.

During Sias' tenure, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools approved a measure that will allow KSU to offer as many as three doctorate programs. The first begins this fall, when KSU will offer a doctorate in nursing practice.

Sias was pictured as Kentucky State's 13th president in February 2004. At the time, she was senior vice president for student affiars and external relations at the University of Texas-Dallas. She joined the UT-Dallas administration in 1995 as both associate provost and associate professor in the School of General Studies.

Sias was picked as Kentucky State's 13th president in February 2004. At the time, she was senior vice president for student affairs and external relations at the University of Texas-Dallas. She joined the UT-Dallas administration in 1995 as both associate provost and associate professor in the School of General Studies. Before that, she was chief executive of the YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas for 13 years.

Founded in 1886, KSU reported 2,370 undergraduate students and 163 graduate students in the fall 2013 semester. It reported 623 total employees for 2013-14, down from 665 in 2011-12.

It's that time again to cast votes for the Ebony HBCU Campus Queen online competition to be featured in the September 2014 issues of the Ebony Magazine. The reigning beauties from Historically Black Colleges and Universities from around the country are featured and awaiting your votes. The Top 10 vote getters will grace the pages of the Ebony magazine. Campus Queen voting is sponsored by Nelson

Each Campus Queen has worked extremely hard through out the semester, within their campus and the community and as well as representing their University to the fullest. Now soon TEN of the 104 HBCUs Queens will be chosen through votes from Students, Faculty and Staff, Alumnus's and Supporters to famously represent their University and show their HBCU Pride in thee Ebony Magazine.

You can view all of the campus queens videos and bio's plus cast your votes for your favorite queen here.

#EbonyCampusQueens

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For the third year in a row, Great Lakes is offering the Great Lakes National Scholarship -- a program that will help you reach your goal of earning a degree in a STEM field. They're awarding 750 scholarships of $2,500 each to the most qualified students.

If you are:

• A high school senior, graduate, current post secondary undergraduate or graduate level student?
• A student with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 on a 4.0 scale?
• Able to demonstrate financial need?
• A student who plans to enroll at an accredited, non-profit two-year or four-year college, university, or vocational-technical school for the entire 2014-2015 academic year?

In an eligible major, such as:

•  Math
•  Natural or physical science
• Biological or agricultural science
• Engineering or engineering technology
• Computer/information science

THEN YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A $2,500 SCHOLARSHIP!

Learn more about the scholarship here  or go ahead and apply online here.

Applications will be accepted until April 5th, or until we receive 20,000 applications. Finalist will be notified in July.

The D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign announces Southern University and A&M College as March HBCU of the Month. Join us by helping celebrating Southern University and A&M College as our HBCU of the Month. As we celebrate the school, we will like to help the campus be better campus by generating donations to donate to the school to help various program such as different departments and student organizations on campus as well as help bring more activities in and more speakers and artists to school. We also like to raise an HBCU Campaign Scholarship to give to students on the campus.

Our goal is reach $5,000 from donators to be given to Southern University. Each donator who donates over $500 receive an free HBCU Campaign t-shirt in token of appreciation.

What's is the D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign

The D.J's Music Site HBCU Campaign is a campaign program started by D.J's Music Site Senior Editor, D.J. Jr. who is currently an HBCU student, and it was created to recognize and honor all of the HBCU's (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) and their history across the United States by including an writing and praising their achievements, goals and programs along with an bio of their history into the HBCU Campaign HBCU Hall of Fame. The HBCU Campaign HBCU Hall of Fame cane be found here: www.djsmusicsite.com/hbcucampaign.htm. D.J's Music Site itself is an non-profit website that actually promotes music from signed and unsigned artist and is an source for latest celebrity news and events. We feel like it's a special honor in some where to attend an HBCU of higher education because HBCU's trend to help you from failing and preparing for the workforce world, you are also not just a number compare to attending an non-HBCU college. HBCU's are also diverse, they don't just focused on black's, they welcome White's, Mexican's and Internationals. Every month the HBCU Campaign will recognize an HBCU that's been picked at random in December before the new year rings in.

What is our mission of the HBCU Campaign?

Our idea of the HBCU Campaign is to basically give back to those HBCU's for being the college and universities that they are. The HBCU campaign research and knows that money and scholarships within the HBCU community is becoming decreased and well as our HBCU's so we would like to help keep them alive by better funding and bring more scholarship options for the students who attends these HBCUs. We also want to better the students as well by creating and holding an leadership summit/conference to be held at different HBCU sites which will be lead into a main conference that will be held in an major city for a couple days to come and discuss HBCU issues, and how to better and keep our HBCUs going. Talk about more program on campuses that don't have any program, how to get more resources in our colleges and universities, train other HBCUs to be better on their HBCU campuses. HBCU Campaign wants to fly select students and the HBCU SGA's to be part and participate in the conference/summit. We also will have an alummi selection and gathering at the conference for those who graduated from an HBCU.

YOU CAN MAKE AN DONATION TO OUR $5,000 SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE - HBCU CAMPAIGN MARCH HBCU OF THE MONTH FUND HERE.