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Black History Summer Academy Adds “Ariya” To Empower Young Women

by Gwen Marshall, SPS Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Springfield,MO—The Bridge Builders organization along with the help of the Springfield Community has completed another successful Black History Summer Academy! This year, there were 134 registered students and a nightly average attendance of 101 people. For the first time, we added a rites

5 Universal Success Principles That Have Nothing to Do With Motivation

by Jacob McMillen Success Magazine June 14, 2016 Most of the success advice you read is crap because it mistakes correlation for causation. “Eighty percent of successful CEOs wake up at 5 a.m.—follow their example!” Waking up at 5 a.m. doesn’t make you successful. The type of personalities that tend to

Movie Review: “Captain America: Civil War”

by Lyle Foster, Unite Contributing Writer I hope I don’t sound too philosophical but what is going on with super hero movies now?  Why can’t we have the good guys and the bad guys and we know who wins?  These last films leave the audience not sure if virtue wins

Georgia Teens Redesign Mobile App to Grade Quality of Police Services

Mobile app provides opportunity to strengthen ties between police officers and citizens Nationwide — The teenage trio from Georgia, Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian relaunched their FiveO police rating app using the $22,000 first place award from the 2015 Hiil Innovating Justice Challenge at The Hague, Netherlands. The FiveO [NxtGen] app

Father’s Day: An opportunity to give encouragement away

by Samuel Knox, Unite Managing Editor Springfield, MO— There are times for correction & warning when men aren’t doing their jobs, but not right now. There are a lot of dads out there that take their God-ordained roles and responsibilities seriously and strive hard to be good stewards of our

Five hair products for African American hair

By Tyler Hatten Growing up, there were only a few good hair products for women of color. With more knowledge of coarse and curly hair, there are now tons of products which focus on growing and maintaining healthy hair. Dealing with our hair doesn’t have to be a hassle. Using

Movie Review: “Barbershop: The Next Cut”

by Lyle Foster Barbershop :The Next Cut Well, you can talk about me later…….the part of this film that I liked the best was actually at the end when there were some shots about the hope for the city of Chicago and some clips were shared of several youth groups

Smith takes Christian school in exciting direction

by Bon Tindle New Growth Ministries Christian School has taken education in an exciting direction. While focusing on a college preparatory curriculum, the school also teaches students about other aspects of life that they will encounter once they graduate. “We are very excited, we have a lot of good things

MSU Multicultural Resource Annex named after Mary Walls

By Cortlynn Stark, MSU The Standard News In 1950, Mary Jean Price Walls was denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College, now Missouri State University, because she was African American. On Friday, the new Multicultural Resource Annex was named after her. Mary Walls applied for admission at SMS after graduating

Take care of your mental health

By Tyler Hatten,  Unite Contributing Writer Springfield, MO— Spring is a time of development and cleansing. No, that doesn’t mean cleaning out your closet and developing a new wardrobe. The most important storage space you must clean is the mind. Anxiety and Depression Association of America states about 40 million

Black History Summer Academy Adds “Ariya” To Empower Young Women

by Gwen Marshall, SPS Diversity & Inclusion Specialist Springfield,MO—The Bridge Builders organization along with the help of the Springfield Community has completed another successful Black History Summer Academy! This year, there were 134 registered students and a nightly average attendance of 101 people. For the first time, we added a rites

5 Universal Success Principles That Have Nothing to Do With Motivation

by Jacob McMillen Success Magazine June 14, 2016 Most of the success advice you read is crap because it mistakes correlation for causation. “Eighty percent of successful CEOs wake up at 5 a.m.—follow their example!” Waking up at 5 a.m. doesn’t make you successful. The type of personalities that tend to

Movie Review: “Captain America: Civil War”

by Lyle Foster, Unite Contributing Writer I hope I don’t sound too philosophical but what is going on with super hero movies now?  Why can’t we have the good guys and the bad guys and we know who wins?  These last films leave the audience not sure if virtue wins

Georgia Teens Redesign Mobile App to Grade Quality of Police Services

Mobile app provides opportunity to strengthen ties between police officers and citizens Nationwide — The teenage trio from Georgia, Ima, Asha and Caleb Christian relaunched their FiveO police rating app using the $22,000 first place award from the 2015 Hiil Innovating Justice Challenge at The Hague, Netherlands. The FiveO [NxtGen] app

Father’s Day: An opportunity to give encouragement away

by Samuel Knox, Unite Managing Editor Springfield, MO— There are times for correction & warning when men aren’t doing their jobs, but not right now. There are a lot of dads out there that take their God-ordained roles and responsibilities seriously and strive hard to be good stewards of our

Five hair products for African American hair

By Tyler Hatten Growing up, there were only a few good hair products for women of color. With more knowledge of coarse and curly hair, there are now tons of products which focus on growing and maintaining healthy hair. Dealing with our hair doesn’t have to be a hassle. Using

Movie Review: “Barbershop: The Next Cut”

by Lyle Foster Barbershop :The Next Cut Well, you can talk about me later…….the part of this film that I liked the best was actually at the end when there were some shots about the hope for the city of Chicago and some clips were shared of several youth groups

Smith takes Christian school in exciting direction

by Bon Tindle New Growth Ministries Christian School has taken education in an exciting direction. While focusing on a college preparatory curriculum, the school also teaches students about other aspects of life that they will encounter once they graduate. “We are very excited, we have a lot of good things

MSU Multicultural Resource Annex named after Mary Walls

By Cortlynn Stark, MSU The Standard News In 1950, Mary Jean Price Walls was denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College, now Missouri State University, because she was African American. On Friday, the new Multicultural Resource Annex was named after her. Mary Walls applied for admission at SMS after graduating

Take care of your mental health

By Tyler Hatten,  Unite Contributing Writer Springfield, MO— Spring is a time of development and cleansing. No, that doesn’t mean cleaning out your closet and developing a new wardrobe. The most important storage space you must clean is the mind. Anxiety and Depression Association of America states about 40 million