Jerry Stackhouse and the Vanderbilt men’s basketball team have had their fair share of schedule rearranging for the 2020 season due to COVID-19. Usually starting the first week of November, the NCAA announced a Nov. 25 start date for the college basketball season. Vanderbilt won’t begin its 2020-21 season until early December and the Commodores
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McDonald’s USA Expands Its HBCU Platform to Support the Next Generation of Leaders Powered by its Black & Positively Golden movement, McDonald’s and its owner/operators are further investing in HBCU students and alumni, and women entrepreneurs, through key community partnerships McDonald’s USA, through its Black & Positively Golden movement, is excited to announce the expansion
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Gateway Health Introduces Playbook To Address Racial Inequality Includes $1MM in Scholarships and Targeted Charitable Giving to Black Communities Gateway Health Plan, Inc. (“Gateway Health”), a leading managed care organization dedicated to caring for the “total health” of its members, today announced its new playbook to address inequality in the Black community. According to the
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HBCUs Tapping into Uncommon Venture Capital Investment Opportunities Much-needed outpourings of financial pledges and philanthropic gifts totaling more than $300 million have made their way to historically Black colleges and universities since the coronavirus pandemic erupted seven months ago. However, now in support of stronger commitments to keep HBCUs afloat, new efforts are being made
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“We are pleased to announce that Edward Waters College, distinctively the state of Florida’s first independent institution of higher learning as well as Florida’s first institution established for the education of African-Americans, will add yet another first to its storied history: the first Florida HBCU to add men’s volleyball to our cadre of intercollegiate athletics,”
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The Privileged Poor How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students Anthony Abraham Jack An NPR Favorite Book of the Year , Winner of the Critics’ Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award ,Winner of the CEP–Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship
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The 6th annual BE Smart Hackathon, hosted by Black Enterprise and American Airlines, has concluded, revealing an array of prize-winning teams that represent the best tech talent from the nation’s HBCUs. Team Morehouse, composed of five students from Atlanta-based Morehouse College, scored first prize in the tightly-contested final showdown. Its Free-Fly travel app greatly impressed
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Virtual UNCF Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon raises more than $205K for HBCUs and their Students thanks to Broad Support from Individuals and Corporations – GlobeNewswire During an historic day, UNCF celebrated its 18th annual UNCF Maya Angelou Women Who Lead Luncheon as a virtual fundraising event, for the first time on Sept. 26.
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Florida A&M University (FAMU) announced this week that it will expand its COVID-19 testing capabilities two-fold as the latest academic institution that joins a growing list of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) benefiting from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s $25 million donation of diagnostic equipment, test kits and related supplies. The agreement is designed to support
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