By Fisk University Brown Girls Do Gymnastics’ 6th Annual Conference will be hosted on the campus of Fisk University. This year’s conference will be preceded by a 3-day intensive gymnastics camp for upper-level gymnasts ages 13 & up, Camp Isla™ – Fisk. “We are removing obstacles for Black and brown girls to get the training,
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By Alexis Clark Three Tennessee State University students have been selected to participate in the inaugural class of Apple’s Engineering & Innovation (E&I) Program. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) announced that Derrion Boyce, Ashleigh Thomas and Tenille Cochran are the TSU Apple Scholars for the program. All showed their gratitude for the scholarship award of
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Courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier alum Dr. Leonard Lightfoot (‘04) was recently announced as the recipient of the 2022 Black Engineer of the Year Award in STEM for Professional Achievement after being nominated by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate. Dr. Lightfoot is also a co-founder of the Black Coffee Company, a company guided
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By Sammy Approved The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) launched their month-long initiative titled “HBCU Bound,” in celebration of high school graduates heading to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in conjunction with former First Lady Michelle Obama’s ongoing “College Signing Day” campaign. “HBCU Bound” is a nationwide student advocacy and recruitment initiative in collaboration with UNCF’s National Alumni
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Saint Augustine’s University (SAU) was founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today, SAU officially announces the nation’s first HBCU Urban Access Hub to advance equity in education by taking the HBCU experience to urban communities where there is no HBCU. “Despite the gains that African Americans have made, too many
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Courtesy of Cheyney University In their day jobs, Ernest Owens is Editor at Large at Philadelphia Magazine and Amanda VanAllen anchors the morning news on WPHL-TV. Both award-winning African American journalists have now brought their talent and experience to Cheyney University of Pennsylvania to share with students in the classroom. Assistant Professor of Communication Arts
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By Morehouse College Morehouse College, the nation’s only college dedicated to educating and developing men of color, announced the expanded dates, early selection films, and new advisory board for the Fourth Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival (MCHRFF), scheduled for September 20-24, 2022 in-person on the Morehouse campus and The Plaza Theatre. The five-day
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It’s an annual occurrence in the NBA. Teams change head coaches and the roster of candidates who should get those jobs starts getting bandied about, and especially in recent years those lists almost always included Black candidates. Case in point: Ime Udoka, who is of Nigerian descent. For five years, he was one of those can’t-miss
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By Claretta Bellamy There was a wave of anger from Black Twitter users last month when Walmart released its Juneteenth-themed ice cream, with a flavor created by the New York-based company Balchem. Spotting a trademark symbol for Juneteenth on the product’s label, many on social media criticized both companies for trying to capitalize off Black
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By Misha Cornelius Howard University is pleased to announce Allison Morgan Bryant, Ph.D., will serve as chief of staff and assistant vice president of corporate relations effective immediately. She replaces Paul Monteiro, who served as Howard’s chief of staff since 2017 and Debbi Jarvis who served as senior vice president of corporate relations since 2018. “I am
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