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HBCUCONNECTon campus ♥ HBCU LOVE: 101 ♥ Your Photo Here HBCU LEGACY: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE CELEBRATE BLACK the hottest tips fashion, and more! HISTORY! CHEConK internships, OUT scholarships HBCUCONNECTon campus S T PUBLISHER: HBCU CONNECT, LLC DI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Jehan M. Bunch E ART DIRECTOR: Stacy Edwards CR CONTRIBUTORS: Jehan M. Bunch, Reginald Culpepper, Jessica Johnson, Elynor Moss OPERatIONS: William R. Moss III ON THE COVER: First Row: left to right ADVERTISING: Dawn Dickson, Terrance J Breanna Fite, Daniel C. Moss, – North Carolina A&T University William R. 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A M As I have stated before ‘Get Connected’ with HBCUConnect.com and network with thousands of students from schools all over the country. If you ever have any questions or would like to see something new or special in the upcoming issues, hit me up! Also, please do not forget to vote for who has the hottest yard, girls/guys, and the best marching band! The winners of the 00-007 HBCU Hype Awards will be revealed in the 007 Spring Issue. So be on the lookout for it! “Hallelujah Holla Back” Figure out what you want and act accordingly… Will Moss Will Moss – [email protected] | | WWW.HBCUCONNECT.COM HOLLA BACK! Get At Me: R [email protected]. Send an address with TO your comments. If we publish your letter we’ll send DI you an HBCUCONNECT.COM T-Shirt. Holla! E E H T TO I want to applaud you for all your hard work in regards to your website RS and now print publications. 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Kick off your career. If you’re the type of person who excels in technology development, leads with dedication and keeps the end goal in sight, General Dynamics has a career for you. Entry-level and Internship positions for Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering Students can be viewed at: www.gdc4s.com/college Openings for experienced professionals can be viewed at: www.gdc4s.com/careers © 2007 General Dynamics. All rights reserved. General Dynamics is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce. All applicants must be U.S. Citizens and currently hold or be capable of obtaining a DoD Security Clearance. | | Student Mag Ad.indd 1 2/1/07 4:25:50 PM RY TO Black History IS Where it All BegAn! H Americans have recognized black history annually since 1, K C first as “Negro History Week” and later as “Black History Month.” What you might not know is that black history had LA B barely begun to be studied — or even documented — when the : tradition originated. Although blacks have been in America E at least as far back as colonial times, it was not until the 0th UR century that they gained a respectable presence in the history T A books. E F Blacks Absent from History Books We owe the celebration of Black History Month, and more importantly, the study of black history, to Dr. Carter G. Woodson. Born to parents who were former slaves, he spent his childhood working in the Kentucky coal mines and enrolled in high school at age twenty. He graduated within two years and later went on to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard. The scholar was disturbed to find in his studies that history books largely ignored the black American population-and when blacks did figure into the picture, it was generally in ways that reflected the inferior social position they were assigned at the time. Established Journal of Negro History In 1, he launched Negro History Week as an initiative to bring national attention to the contributions of black people throughout American history. Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of | 10 | WWW.HBCUCONNECT.COM two men who greatly influenced the black American population, RY Black History Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. However, February has TO Where it All BegAn! much more than Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance IS in black American history. For example: H K • February 23, 1868: W.E.B. DuBois, important civil rights leader C and co-founder of the NAACP, was born. LA B • February 3, 1870: The 15th Amendment was passed, granting : blacks the right to vote.