By Kawana McGough Tuskegee National Alumni Association (TNAA) leaders are calling on the university’s faithful alumni, students, staff, faculty, and friends to help it return to the winner’s circle and claim the $75,000 cash prize — in this year’s annual “Retool Your School” campus-improvement grant program. The social media-driven grant competition, sponsored by Home Depot
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By Morehouse College The Heising-Simons Foundation has announced that Morehouse Visiting Professor of Journalism and Leadership Studies David Dennis, Jr., and Michelle García are the recipients of the 2021 American Mosaic Journalism Prize, which includes an unrestricted cash prize of $100,000 for each. This is one of the largest dollar amounts given for a journalism
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By Kimberly Iverson Howard University announced today a partnership with Harris Teeter to support the University’s hunger relief efforts. The supermarket chain has committed to donate $50,000, payable over five years. The donation will help stock and replenish shelves at Howard University’s food pantry, The Store@HU. “This generous gift highlights the strength of our partnership and
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By Madiba Dennie, a counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice One Black woman won’t quickly right the ship of a 6-3 court unmoored from principle, but dissenting opinions have influenced the court and Congress to pursue changes to laws. The Supreme Court has made thousands of decisions over hundreds of years that
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By Stephanie Holland If you’ve ever watched an HBCU football game, you already know the band is the best part. Sorry, football players, but marching bands are the real MVPs. To that end, the CW is taking a deep dive into the world of HBCU marching bands with its new reality series March, premiering Monday, Jan.
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By Mia Berry When the No. 1 Lincoln (Pennsylvania) women’s basketball team arrived at Royal Farms Arena for its opening round matchup in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Tournament, they wanted to make a statement. The Lions abandoned their traditional orange and blue warm-up shirts for a black T-shirt featuring a picture of former
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By David Thompson, It’s always been more difficult to hire and retain special education teachers, but thanks to a new program launched this year at Bowie State University students pursuing master’s degrees in special education can complete the degree tuition free. The first 14 graduate students enrolled in the program this semester at BSU to
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