By Ryan Prior, CNN Next year will be a crucial year for Erika Kirgios as she works to complete her doctorate, publish academic papers and try to land a faculty job at a university. Not surprisingly, one of her New Year’s resolutions is to focus on her career. In order to find some delight in
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 The UNCF Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball will air on WXIA TV 11 December 29 at 11 a.m. and on WATL TV December 30 at 8 p.m. UNCF celebrated its 37th annual Atlanta Mayor’s Masked Ball online for the first time Dec. 19. The event successfully raised more than $800k for UNCF’s historically Black colleges and
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GRAMBLINGÂ â Grambling State University will see a direct financial benefit from passage of the Omnibus Appropriations and Emergency Coronavirus Relief Act, which includes the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Finance Debt Relief Act. Approximately $87 million in debt relief will come to Grambling State from this congressional action. The total includes $80 million for
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Writer, educator and Trenton-native Maurice âRaheemâ Mander has dedicated the past two decades of his life marrying his love for history, creativity and his hometown of Trenton, NJ into a comic book titled âSurian Seed:HBCU Superheroes.â The comic, and soon to be animated film, follows a group of superhuman Trentonians that graduated from HBCUâs (historically
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TMCF applauds President Trumpâs signing of the HBCU Propelling Agency Relationships Towards a New Era of Results for Students Act (HBCU PARTNERS Act) into law. âWe thank President Trump for signing this important legislation and extend our appreciation to the White House Initiatives on HBCUs for its effort to work with us to champion a
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