American Baptist College News February 2, 2016 ABC Senior Selected to Present at 2016 NCUR Meeting in Asheville, NC Congratulations to Tremaine Sails ('16), a graduating senior, on the acceptance of his abstract, "The Birth of African American Identity: A Discourse of Resistance in 18th Century Philadelphia ," for presentation at the April meeting of the National Conference on University Research (NCUR) at UNC Asheville. Chosen from more than 4000 submissions, Tremaine's abstract, said the Selection Committee, demonstrated a unique contribution to his chosen field of study (which, according to Tremaine, is African Studies). Born in Honolulu, Hawaii and raised in Nashville, TN, Tremaine describes himself as a child of the Black Church, someone who has had an incessant urge to study as much as he could about biblical history, Black religious protest groups, and Black Church studies. He enrolled at American Baptist College in the Fall of 2013 and has maintained a 3.43 GPA, making the Dean's List or President's List every semester since enrolling. Other distinctions Tremaine has earned since enrolling at ABC: selected as an HBCU AllStar by the Whitehouse Initiative on HBCUs <http://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/resources/hbcu-all-star-students/> , selected to the McNair Scholars Program<http://mcnairscholars.com/>, a 2015 Chi Boule scholar, and working as an intern for the Urban League of Middle Tennessee. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-592-4820 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.