Thanks to FVSU alums and stars of the Nat Geo WILD television show Critter Fixers: Country Vets, Drs. Terrance Ferguson and Vernard Hodges, National Geographic will be donating $50,000 to Fort Valley State University in support of its veterinary tec ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2021 at 2:04PM
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This past February, during Black History Month, the Recording Academy's Black Music Collective (BMC), a group of prominent Black music creators and professionals who share the common goal of amplifying Black voices within the Academy and the music co ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2021 at 11:59AM
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It's graduation season and Delaware State graduates will be celebrating the end of their matriculation... with LESS STUDENT LOAN DEBT! Due to the difficulties faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, DSU has decided to relieve some student loan debt for i ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2021 at 11:49AM
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On May 19th, Agilent partnered with HBCU CONNECT to host a special diversity recruitment/hiring event for Black and Latinx students and professionals with backgrounds in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical engineering. ...
Posted Monday, May 24th 2021 at 11:33AM
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TLS Talent Agency is pleased to announce its latest division, TLS Sports. The talent agency first launched in 2010 by co-founders Cicero Leak and Tristian Turner (both graduates of HBCUs) with clients such as Shark Tank’s Daymond John, Sway Calloway, ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2021 at 2:04PM
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BEAN Now, the social networking app created to fix the historical economic disadvantages in Black communities around the world has launched a feature that everyone is raving about; it’s called the “Beanstalk,” where beans talk. This new, exciting fe ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2021 at 1:58PM
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Kevon Chisholm and his 14-year old son, Kamari, are back for the second year to teach an online summer camp that helps young African Americans, ages 12-21, learn about investing in the stock market, cryptocurrency, real estate, and more. The camp, Ju ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2021 at 1:55PM
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Two brothers from Red Springs, North Carolina are finally getting a small piece of justice for the wrongdoing they faced due to a crooked justice system.
After Henry McCollum and Leon Brown spent decades in prison for a crime they did not commit, ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2021 at 1:37PM
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The financial support that HBCUs have been receiving lately from major corporations has been a beautiful thing to see. Companies from an array of different industries have been very generous in the gifts given to our beloved institutions. The latest ...
Posted Friday, May 21st 2021 at 1:25PM
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On May 21st, Mark A. Malveaux and his wife, Dawn, will be gifting $1,000,000 to Southern University, their undergraduate alma mater. The gift will support academic scholarships to talented business students and general programming in the College of B ...
Posted Thursday, May 20th 2021 at 1:56PM
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Edward Waters College (EWC) announced today that it will establish the A. Philip Randolph Institute for Law, Race, Social Justice and Economic Policy in the coming months pursuant to a multi-year six figure grant from the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund. The ...
Posted Thursday, May 20th 2021 at 1:44PM
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It's a sad day for the comedy community and comedy fans all over the world. Trailblazing comedian, actor, and writer Paul Mooney passed away this morning at the age of 79. Mooney was known for his outspoken, witty, and blunt comedy that covered every ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 3:25PM
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SOURCE: Brian Howard of FAMU News
The Florida Senate recently confirmed seven members of the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees (FAMU BOT). Of those, five trustees are FAMU alumni, and for the first time in the BOT’s current configuration, a ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 3:06PM
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Fisk University announced today the single largest gift from a Nashville family since Fisk’s inception in 1866. The $2.5 million gift from Amy and Frank Garrison will be utilized for both the establishment of an Endowed Chair in recognition of Diane ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 3:03PM
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Adults today often agonize over their financial situation and how it is negatively impacting their lives. How did they get there? How did their credit score plummet and how do they climb out of the hole they have dug for themselves? Does it really ta ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:58PM
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Battelle is expanding its long-standing commitment to increasing diversity and fostering inclusion within Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) careers by investing $200,000 over two years to provide students from Bowie State University an ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:54PM
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Margaret Nyamumbo has made history as the first Black entrepreneur to have her coffee brand, Kahawa 1893, sold in Trader Joe's grocery stores across the country. As a third-generation coffee farmer from Kenya, she knew firsthand the injustices women ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:42PM
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As graduation caps and gowns are donned this year, some students unfortunately find their needs outstrip their abilities to walk the stage and collect their diplomas with unpaid debt preventing some from being able to finish the last mile—just before ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:39PM
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Target, a longstanding donor and partner of UNCF, will make higher education more affordable this fall for 1,000 first-year Black students at more than a dozen public and private historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) through need-based ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:35PM
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UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nation's leading advocate for the importance of minority education and community engagement, today announced a new initiative designed to help students who left college before graduating to re-enroll in a network ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:32PM
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Megan Faux, The Teaching Goddess, Founder and Executive Director of The 25 Dream Campaign, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation has launched a new initiative – monthly grants for kids. It’s called The 25 Dreams Source of Light Grant, specifically for yo ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:25PM
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In addition to Clark Atlanta University graduates receiving their degrees on Saturday, May 15th, they were also the first to hear the announcement of a $3 million gift to the university to fund entrepreneurial programming. CAU President, Dr. George T ...
Posted Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at 2:06PM
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The MIT Office of the Dean for Student Life (DSL) LGBTQ+ Services seeks an Assistant Dean to provide strategic direction and leadership to the work of LBGTQ+ Services, Womxn, and Gender which supports numerous students and student organizations at MI ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2021 at 3:42PM
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Are you a student that aspires to work in the music industry one day? Do you want to learn the ins and outs of the industry? Power 2 Inspire has the perfect internship program for you!
Created in 2013, the Power 2 Inspire Foundation (a 501c3) has ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2021 at 3:33PM
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Sports marketing firm Octagon recently announced the launch of a career accelerator program aimed specifically at providing students of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) with prime industry-learning opportunities and first-hand exp ...
Posted Monday, May 17th 2021 at 3:12PM
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