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We all knew that last month's football game between the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Golden Lions at Little Rock's War Memorial Stadium wouldn't be close. The Razorbacks play in the powerful Southeastern Conference of NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision. The Golden Lions are a struggling team from the Football Championship Subdivision.

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Joseph Carter Corbin built one of the most successful African-American universities in the nation from nothing and helped keep it alive when so many forces threatened to wreck it. He was born in Chilicothe, Ohio, in 1833, into a family of free African-Americans and the oldest of twelve children. He was extremely intelligent as a youngster. At a young age, Corbin developed a passion for teaching, and left to teach school at age 15 in Louisville, Kentucky. He returned to Ohio to complete his own ...