By Chauncey Alcorn, People of color made up more than 55% of new hires at Walmart between February and July of this year and now occupy more than 25% of the retailer’s officer positions, according to the company’s website and its latest diversity, equity and inclusion report released Friday. That includes at least two African-American officers who joined the
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By Jazmyn Burton Mastercard today announced a $5 million grant to support the forthcoming Center for Black Entrepreneurship. Established in partnership with the Black Economic Alliance Foundation, and located on the campuses of Spelman and Morehouse, the CBE will serve as an incubator for high-potential, Black owned start-ups, and a new generation of Black entrepreneurial talent. The grant will fund new
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By Jamie Gumbrecht, Following days of lengthy debate among vaccine experts, booster shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine can now be officially administered to some adults in the United States. Early Friday morning, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky diverged from the agency’s independent vaccine advisers to recommend boosters for
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By Kawana McGough. Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing Tuskegee University has received a $250,000 grant from the Regions Foundation to support scholarships for students. The scholarships are expected to support at least 50 students as they pursue their degrees. The Regions Foundation is a nonprofit initiative that is primarily funded by Regions Bank.
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By Dr. Leonard Brown and Dr. Justin Moses, With a pandemic that has directly or indirectly impacted us all, multiple acts of violence projected on communities of color, and political unrest, we have all felt an overwhelming burden. Countless lives around us have been lost including some of those in our NSU community. Despite these
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By Kevin Liptak and Devan Cole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday night that the House will vote Thursday on the $1 trillion infrastructure plan, as the future of President Joe Biden’s sweeping economic agenda remains uncertain. The vote is set to come as Pelosi works to unite disparate wings of the Democratic Party on
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By Jacob Sanchez, Akin White has been an artist for as long as he can remember. Whenever inspiration struck, Akin would grab whatever piece of paper nearby and a pencil and start drawing. His mom, Keisha White, recognized her son’s talent one day when he drew Superman, and the sketch looked exactly like the comic
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