Even if you do not have a college-aged child at home, please share this with
someone who does, and to anyone and everyone that comes to mind. Though there are a number of companies and organizations that have donated money for scholarships to African Americans, a great deal of the money is being returned because of a lack of interest or awareness.

No one is going to knock on our doors and ask if we can use a scholarship.

Take the initiative to get your children involved! Money shouldn’t be
returned to donating companies because we fail to apply for it.

Please pass this information on to family members, nieces, nephews, friends
with children etc. We must get the word out that money is available. If you
are a college student or getting ready to become one, you probably already know how useful additional money can be.
(If clicking on the link doesn’t work, then type in the Web site address
manually.)

1) BELL LABS FELLOWSHIPS FOR UNDER REPRESENTED MINORITIES
http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/CRFP/info.html

2) Student Inventors Scholarships
http://www.invent.org/collegiatehttp://www.invent.org/collegiate/

3) Student Video Scholarships http://www.christophers.org/vidcon2k.html

4) Coca-Cola Two Year College Scholarships
http://www.coca-colascholars.org/programs.html

5) Holocaust Remembrance Scholarships http://holocaust.hklaw.com/

6) Ayn Rand Essay Scholarships http://www.aynrand.org/contests/

7) Brand Essay Competition
http://www.instituteforbrandleadership.org/IBLEssayContest-2002Rules.htm

Gates Millennium Scholarships (major)
http://www.gmsp.org/nominationmaterials/read.dbm?ID=12

9) Xerox Scholarships for Students
http://www2.xerox.com/go/xrx/about_xerox/about_xerox_detail.jsp

10) Sports Scholarships and Internships
http://www.ncaa.org/about/scholarships.html

11) National Assoc. of Black Journalists Scholarships (NABJ) http://www.nabj.org/html/studentsvcs.html

12) Saul T. Wilson Scholarships (Veterinary)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/mb/mrphr/jobs/stw.html

13) Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
http://www.thurgoodmarshallfund.org/sk_v6.cfm

14) FinAid: The Smart Students Guide
to Financial Aid scholarships) http://www.finaid.org/

15) Presidential Freedom Scholarships
http://www.nationalservice.org/scholarships/

16) Microsoft Scholarship Program
http://www.microsoft.com/college/scholarships/minority.asp

17) WiredScholar Free Scholarship Search
http://www.wiredscholar.com/paying/scholarship_search/pay_scholarship_search.jsp

18) Hope Scholarships &Lifetime Credits http://www.ed.gov/inits/hope/

19) William Randolph Hearst Endowed Scholarship for Minority Students
http://www.apsanet.org/PS/grants/aspen3.cfm

20) Multiple List of Minority Scholarships
http://gehon.ir.miami.edu/financial-assistance/Scholarship/black.html

21) Guaranteed Scholarships http://www.guaranteed-scholarships.com/

22) BOEING scholarships (some HBCU connects)
http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/educationrelations/scholarships

23) Easley National Scholarship Program http://www.naas.org/senior.htm

24) Maryland Artists Scholarships http://www.maef.org/

25) Jacki Tuckfield Memorial Graduate Business Scholarship (for AA students
in South Florida) http://www.jackituckfield.org/

26) Historically Black College & University Scholarships
http://www.iesabroad.org/info/hbcu.htm

27) Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students
http://www.beanactuary.org/minority/scholarships.htm

28) International Students Scholarships &Aid Help http://www.iefa.org/

29) College Board Scholarship Search http://cbweb10p.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/fundfind01.html

30) Burger King Scholarship Program http://www.bkscholars.csfa.org/

31) Siemens Westinghouse Competition http://www.siemens-foundationorg/

32) GE and LuLac Scholarship Funds
http://www.lulac.org/Programs/Scholar.html

33) CollegeNet ‘ s Scholarship Database
http://www.collegenet.com/mach25/app

34) Union Sponsored Scholarships and Aid
http://www.aflcioorg/scholarships/scholar.htm

35) Federal Scholarships &Aid Gateways 25 Scholarship Gateways from Black Excel http://www.blackexcel.org/25scholarships.htm

36) Scholarship &Financial Aid Help http://www.blackexcel.org/fin-sch.htm

37) Scholarship Links (Ed Finance Group)
http://www.efg.net/link_scholarship.htm

38) FAFSA On The Web (Your Key Aid Form &Info) http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/

39) Aid &Resources For Re-Entry Students http://www.back2college.com/

40) Scholarships and Fellowships http://www.osc.cuny.edu/sep/links.html

41) Scholarships for Study in Paralegal Studies
http://www.paralegals.org/Choice/2000west.htm

42) HBCU Packard Sit Abroad Scholarships (for study around the world)
http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/packard_nomination.html

43) Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities
http://ccmi.uchicago.edu/schl1.html

44) INROADS internships http://www.inroads.org/

45) ACT-SO EUROlympics of the Mind Scholarships
http://www.naacp.org/work/actso/act-so.shtml

46) Black Alliance for Educational Options Scholarships
http://www.baeo.org/options/privatelyfinanced.jsp

47) ScienceNet Scholarship Listing
http://www.sciencenet.emory.edu/undergrad/scholarships.html

48) Graduate Fellowships For Minorities Nationwide
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=MINORITIES

49) RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD
http://www.rhodesscholar.org/info.html

50) The Roothbert Scholarship Fund
http://www.roothbertfund.org/scholarships.php

Maj. Mark E. Rosenberg
32 years old from Miami Lakes, Florida
3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
April 8, 2008
Mark Rosenberg grew up in South Florida. “All boy,” his aunt, Madelyn Rosenberg, remembers. “Very active, but very lovable.” As long as she can recall, Maj. Rosenberg wanted a military career like his father, Burton Rosenberg, had.

These
brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived

This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

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This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By Mary Ann

Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine
Company C, 1st Battalion, 77th Armor
“How can I say to my sons, stand up for something, fight for what you think is right, if I don’t do anything myself?” The Jeffrey Jamaleldine that you speak to today is a complete 180 from the Jeffrey Jamaleldine that you would have spoke to in the past. In 1991, Jamaleldin was living in Germany when joined in anti-American protests on Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm boulevard during Operation Desert Storm. “That was the way it was back then,” he says. He was 15 and “America was simply the enemy.” And today, Jeffery Jamaleldine is a wounded veteran of the U.S. Army. On June 6, 2005, after the terror bombing in Madrid, Spain, in the middle of the Iraq war, he showed up at the U.S. Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enlist. His father, Bashir, told him at the time: “Son, this won’t be a picnic.”On June 30, Jamaleldine was on patrol in Ramadi, Iraq. The patrol ahead of him had been ambushed by at least 70 combatants and were now under fire. During the fight, Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine was hit in the face by a bullet. In the end, the battle lasted into the next morning and the soldiers were able to stop the enemy from returning to Ramadi.The article on Spc. Jeffrey Jamaleldine is five pages long, and I simply can not condense it down to only a few paragraphs. You can read the entire story here.These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People LivedThis post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your site, you can go here.

Last July we mentioned that Magnatune, a record label known for pioneering open business models, had hired a developer to work on Amarok, a free software media player.

Today Magnatune founder John Buckman announced $11,570 in sales via Amarok, of which 10% are donated to support Amarok. This number could get much bigger as Amarok goes cross-platform, notes the Amarok blog:

With the greatly improved Magnatune integration in the upcoming Amarok 2, and the eventual release of Amarok 2 on Windows and Mac, it will be really interesting to see how far we can take this in the future. For now, I hope that the Amarok users will continue to buy music through Amarok, as it is a great way of supporting Amarok development, at the same time as supporting independent artists, who get a full 50% of the purchase price.

Buckman also announced that Magnatune would donate 10% of sales made through Rythmbox to support that free software media player.

Both media players enable a user to listen to music from Magnatune for free, and make it easy to buy — just like the Magnatune web site.

Congratulations to Magnatune, Amarok, and Rhythmbox for making a logical collaboration (open source and open content) a practical win-win for users (ready access to DRM-free, CC-licensed music), developers, artists, and the whole movement — it has been too long since last mentioning that it’s about discovery now.

First it was his grandmother in the Philadelphia speech; now, suddenly - post his outrageous tirade yesterday, it's Jeremiah Wright. The problem for Obama is that there's nothing any of us, including Obama, now know about Wright after his Press Club exhibition that we didn't know about Wright weeks ago. As for Obama, to believe that he hasn't known about Wright all along, is absurd.

Paul at Powerline writes:

The problem, of course, is that Obama's partial defense of Wright in the Philadelphia speech still applies. Obama's analysis was that Wright's hateful statements were an understandable reaction to what he experienced growing up and that, although these statements cannot be condoned, they do not represent the totality of what Wright stands for much less what his church has accomplished. The addition of a few more hateful statements doesn't affect this analysis. The addition of bad election and poll results clearly did.

In revising his position on Wright, Obama relies in part on his pastor's association with Louis Farrakhan. But Wright's admiration for Farrakhan has long been known; publicity over the award Wright presented to Farrakhan pre-dates the "outing" of Wright's sermons. Moreover, it took some pushing by Hillary Clinton just to get Obama himself strongly to denounce Farrakhan.

In any case, Obama's concession (finally) that Wright is beyond the pale arguably raises more acutely than ever the question of how this hatemongering crackpot could have been Obama's spiritual mentor for nearly 20 years

DO YOU BELIEVE HIM?

Twenty years in the pews. Tapes of Jeremiah Wright taken with him to Harvard Law. Inspired by Wright's remarks about white greed impoverishing the poor and the sins of the American armed forces -- after years in which Obama went out of his way to soak amid exactly the same sorts of cant from his self-selected Marxist professors, from his leftist, Black Nationalist and Third World friends and family, and from his Nation of Islam associates. (You can read about it in Obama's memoir). No, I don't think Obama is coming clean on this.

Only if one just fell off the turnip truck yesterday!

Add to the requirement for someone to be incredibly naive and gullible in order to believe Obama now, there's another little matter that makes Obama all the more insincere and unbelievable:

the word on the street is that Barack Obama did not repudiate or further "distance" himself from Wright (who, by the way, he cannot "distance" himself from) last night, but rather waited until today, because he was polling on whether he should make the move all night.

Related:
The Awful Truth
Obama Adviser Cornell West Enthusiastically Cheered Jeremiah Wright At Yesterday's Disastrous Press Conference; Will He Too Be Asked to Leave?

There happen to be a couple awesome CC-oriented submission deadlines quickly approaching, and as such, a recap post seemed in order.

Entries for Monopoly Shuffle: A Remix Contest, which we discussed earlier here, are due May 1. That means you only have two days to create a piece of art that is built out of public domain and/or CC-licensed works and engages with the concepts of remixing, fair use, and the public domain. There are some great prizes to be had and submissions must be CC-licensed (preferably CC BY).

The deadline for submissions to the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture CFP at iSummit’08 has been extended to May 3. As we noted earlier, this is a great opportunity for researchers who study the commons to interact and share ideas with their peers.

Finally, the deadline for the SELF Documentary Contest, in which participants are encouraged to produce a documentary about the creation of free knowledge and education in the digital era, is approaching on May 31. SELF, “an international project aiming to provide a platform for the collaborative sharing and creation of free educational and training materials on Free Software and Open Standards”, is holding the contest “to strengthen the SELF Platform, to centralise, transmit and enlarge the available knowledge on Free Software and Open Standards and to raise awareness and contribute to the building of critical mass for the use of Free Software and Open Standards.” Submissions must be released under a CC BY license or a Free Art license.

People that disagree with Obama are bitter ....

While Obama once again attempted to distance himself from his retired pastor, Malik Zulu Shabazz, national chairman of the New Black Panther Party, lauded Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a "man of principle" for sticking to his teachings of "black liberation theology" during Monday's highly publicized session at the National Press Club.

Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive's premier label, has dispatched its game Grand Theft Auto IV to stores for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Developed by Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV returns the series to Liberty City, following Niko Bellic as he makes his way through the criminal underworld.

To support the game, Take-Two Interactive has launched the Rockstar Social Club that includes leaderboards and social networking activities.

Late this year, exclusive downloadable content will be released for the Xbox 360 version of the game.

(see original source)

When a reporter challenges George Bush on his credibility after he describes the US as winning in Afghanistan, Bush at first tries to explain that "winning" doesn't mean the war is over. Either not listening, unable to comprehend the difference, or too wrapped-up in her own agenda, the reporter still challenges the president's credibility. Bush then notes that he has said repeatedly that tough fighting remains ahead. After the reporter tries asking the same question again, Bush vents his frustration ....

Be sure to watch the entire video; the importance of this video is not the lefty nutcase reporter, rather President Bush's going to lengths to explain the difference between "winning" and having won the war - a difference that escapes the liberal mindset of the clueless on the left, especially the left wing media.