Brian Gibson finding success with commercial work with almost a dozen to his credit Brian Gibson.
Brenda Sands was the first person to notice that her son Brian Gibson’s behavior was always exaggerated and designed to “make show” before an audience as she puts it, and she said he has been this way since he was a youngster. She encouraged him –and now – Gibson has quite a few commercials to his credit.
Gibson who resides in Toronto, Canada, has starred in commercials for brands such as Re/Max, Downy, Cheetos, Google Fiber, Bud Light, Budweiser, Toys “R” Us, Royal Bank of Canada, Facebook Games, and Hanes Underwear.
Filed in HBCUs on January 15, 2021
Historically Black St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina, was originally founded in 1867 by the Episcopal Church as the St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute. The name of the school was changed to St. Augustine’s School in 1893, then to St. Augustine Junior College in 1919. The college became a four-year educational institution in 1927 and was renamed St. Augustine’s College. It became St. Augustine’s University on August 1, 2012.
Despite being designated as a university in 2012, St. Augustine’s has not offered any graduate programs until now. The university recently announced that it will now offer a fully-online master of public administration degree program. The MPA program is designed to prepare career professionals to serve in leadership roles such as public administrators, public managers, and policy analysts with critical decision-making skills.
At one point in C.S. Lewis’s novel
Perelandra the hero, Elwin Ransom, had “an experience that perhaps no good man can ever have in our world… a torrent of perfectly unmixed and lawful hatred” in which “the energy of hating never before felt without some guilt, without some dim knowledge that he was failing fully to distinguish the sinner from the sin, rose into his arms and legs and he felt that they were pillars of burning blood.”
In current politics we seem to be having the opposite experience.
The hatred is flowing in torrents, all right. And bringing with it enough energy to surge into the United States Capitol before flowing the other way. But it’s unmixed the wrong way, with increasingly little sign of any sense of guilt or dim knowledge of its corrupted and corrupting qualities.
Sir William Allen dies at 83 Sir William Allen.
Sir William Allen, who served as governor of The Central Bank of The Bahamas and later minister of finance, died at his New Providence home yesterday after a long illness. He was 83.
Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, in expressing condolences to Sir William’s family, said his contribution to the development and advancement of The Bahamas is immeasurable.
Ingraham noted that Allen returned home from the United States in 1970 to take up a post as research manager at the Central Bank. He went on to serve as deputy governor and ultimately as governor of the bank. He was appointed to that post on June 1, 1980 after the resignation of the late Timothy Baswell Donaldson from the post.
Celebrating the Knight s Centennial in Cuba
This article appeared in the July 2009 issue of Columbia and is reprinted here with permission of
the Knights of Columbus, New Haven, Conn and of Maria de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda, author.
by María de Lourdes Ruiz Scaperlanda
The year was 1909. Plastic was invented. Censorship of motion pictures began. And 53-year-old American explorer Robert E. Peary became the first to reach the North Pole. It was also the year that the Order founded chapters in both Cuba and Panama.
Between the 1899 census and 1908 the population of the island of Cuba, celebrated as “The Pearl of the Antilles,” increased by 30 %, reaching over two million. Roughly the size of England and smaller than Virginia, the Caribbean island struggled to come into its own, politically, economically, culturally, after a fierce battle for independence from Spain. The Catholic Church in Cuba was no exception.