By Curtis Bunn After more than two years of fact-finding, reports and public hearings, the California Reparations Task Force on June 29 will hand over to the California Assembly its extensive report and recommendations for compensation to eligible Black people of California for the harms of slavery. California was not a slave state, but more than
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Courtesy of Wiberforce University The nation’s first, private historically Black college/university (HBCU) shows great value in the official U. S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard. These are metrics that give a perspective of how categorized colleges and universities rank. Wilberforce University (Ohio) is graded among six other four year, private and public, historically Black colleges/universities (HBCUs) by enrollment,
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By Markus Speakman the White House held a Press Briefing with HBCU student journalists and Senior Advisor for Public Engagement Keisha Lance Bottoms featuring Vice President Kamala Harris. Along with the Director of Alumni Affairs, Mr. JamesAaron Pierre, I traveled to Washington, DC, to join Vice President Harris and Senior Advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms, alongside
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By Mckenzie Jean-Phillippe A key American historical event has finally gotten federal recognition: June 19, 1865—the day all people living in the United States, including the formerly enslaved, were officially granted freedom. On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law making the day known as Juneteenth a national holiday. “Great nations don’t ignore their most
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Courtesy of North Carolina A&T State University Research teams from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico have initiated the first phases of the African Combustion Aerosol Collaborative Intercomparison Analysis (ACACIA) pilot study. The project titled “Studies of optical and chemical properties of aged and fresh
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By Johnathan Saxon Bowie State University solidified its relationship with the United States Coast Guard during a ceremony at the Center for Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Nursing during which President Aminta H. Breaux and Vice Admiral Peter Gautier signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to continue the College Student Pre-Commissioning Initiative (CSPI) Executive Champion Scholarship Program at
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Scholarships can play a significant role when navigating the financial responsibilities required to fund an education. Nearly 60 percent of families depend on them to help cover the monetary burden associated with a college degree, next to family contributions, the second biggest source for college funding—and families of first generation and/or African American students often
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