Several members of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity will attend the National Step Show today through Sunday.

Jermael King, one of the fraternity members who is attending, said this is the first time the fraternity has qualified.

"I'm really excited," he said. "This is the first time we've been able to go."

Nine members will attend the conference, which is hosted in Los Angeles, Calif., and six members will be competing.   more >>

Vance Pierce, formerly of Peoria, has been named to the new position of coordinator of intercultural life at Monmouth College.

Pierce's primary duties will include providing international and minority students with scholarship, internship and employment information, as well as programming that enriches their college experience.

The new coordinator will oversee such existing programs as Black History Month and the Intercultural Festival, while developing new ones, such as a Cultures in America series.  more >>

Black males are at a "critical state" with regard to education in Florida, a Florida state senator says, and he's hosting a series of town hall meetings to discuss it.

Sen. Tony Hill will host a meeting at 1 p.m. at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach at the Science Lecture Hall on Wednesday. The focus will be on middle school education.

Hill is working with Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and the Black Male Explorers Program which aims promote self esteem to help more at-risk black males stay in school.   more >>

As summer session draw to a close and many students prepare for a final break with their family before the fall session, families who call the Ronald McDonald house home will be absent from friends and family while their child is fighting for his or her life.

The Ronald McDonald house in Memphis is low or out of many basic supplies.

The Theta Psi chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., is seeking support from students and residents this week to get the needed items.   more >>

 Dressed in floor-length pink gowns with their hair upswept, looking poised and chic, a dozen middle school girls showed just why their style was as much on the inside as out.  

Speaking before a packed audience at Turf Valley Resort and Conference Center in Ellicott City earlier this month, the girls, who range in age between 13 and 16 years old, voiced concerns for their generation and the next.   more >>