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Morehouse College basketball coach Grady Brewer dies at 63 By FOX 5 Digital Team Published  The school says Brewer died Saturday at the age of 63 after battling an illness. Brewer, a graduate of Morehouse and Douglass High School, had been the Tigers' head coach for more than 20 years. While he was in college he played for the team, lettering all four years and starting in his junior and senior years. "The past several decades can only justly be described as the Grady Brewer era at Morehouse," said Morehouse College President David A. Thomas, Ph.D. "The only thing that surpassed his presence...

May 25, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this David Thomas ’78 B.A., ’86 Ph.D. Distinguished scholar and Morehouse College president David Thomas ’78 B.A., ’84 M.A., ’84 M.PHIL., ’86 Ph.D. has been elected to serve as an alumni fellow of Yale’s Board of Trustees, known formally as the Yale Corporation, in worldwide balloting of university graduates. He begins a six-year term on July 1. Before being appointed president of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, in 2018, Thomas served as dean and William R. Berkley Chair...

Southern University is not the only HBCU doing such outreach. The United Negro College Fund, an organization representing 37 private historically Black colleges and universities, recently launched a new initiative to bring 4,000 students back to HBCUs across the country to earn their degrees, aided by one-on-one coaching. The move mirrors other efforts by historically Black institutions to reclaim students who left, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected Black Americans at disproportionate rates in terms of infections and deaths, and led to job losses and other negative finan...

James “Jim” Loid Hamlin, age 85, of Brownwood passed away Thursday, March 4, 2021, at a local nursing facility after a lengthy illness. Graveside Services for James will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 11, 2021, at Ector County Rose Hill Cemetery in Odessa with Military Honors. Visitation will be held Sunday, March 7th , from 3 to 5 p.m. at Blaylock Funeral Home. Arrangements under the direction of Blaylock Funeral Home of Brownwood. James was born on July 20, 1935, to William and Ada (Ward) Hamlin in Sylvester, Texas. At age 19, James joined the Marines and served 9 years, receiv...

Colleges to house new center that trains Black entrepreneurs By CHRISTINE FERNANDO, Associated Press Published: February 28, 2021, 6:02am Share: 2 Photos FILE - In this April 12, 2019, file photo, people enter the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta. A new center for training Black entrepreneurs will be opening in Atlanta as part of a collaboration announced Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, between Spelman College, Morehouse College and an advocacy organization made up of business leaders. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File) Photo Gallery CHICAGO — A new center for training Blac...