getty image: Dr. Evelyn Bethune, the granddaughter of Bethune-Cookman University founder, Dr. Mary McCloud Bethune, will speak exclusively to NewsOne Now Host and Managing Editor Roland S. Martin in a Tom Joyner Morning Show-TV One simulcast on Monday, May 15 live at 7:15 am EST. In her first public comments on the controversy surrounding Education […]
SAINTS OR SINNERS: Students Boo Betsy DeVos As Commencement Speaker At Historically Black University
getty images: Many of the graduating students turned their backs on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and boos nearly drowned out her commencement speech Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University. DeVos carried on with her keynote address to the historically black university, praising its founder Mary McLeod Bethune as someone who “refused to accept systemic and repulsive […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, received an honorary doctorate of divinity from Bethune-Cookman University (BC-U) during the institution’s commencement ceremony on May 5. Sharpton’s mother and father were present at the ceremony and witnessed him deliver the commencement address. The award from the Daytona Beach, Fla. school marks […]
The Rev. Al Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, received an honorary doctorate of divinity from Bethune-Cookman University (BC-U) during the institution’s commencement ceremony on May 5. Sharpton’s mother and father were present at the ceremony and witnessed him deliver the commencement address. The award from the Daytona Beach, Fla. school marks […]
