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Brown Girls Do Gymnastics to Host Inaugural Gymnastics Camp July 19 on the Campus of the Fisk University

By Fisk University Brown Girls Do Gymnasticsā€™ 6th Annual Conference will be hosted on the campus of Fisk University. This yearā€™s conference will be preceded by a 3-day intensive gymnastics camp for upper-level gymnasts ages 13 & up, Camp Islaā„¢ ā€“ Fisk. ā€œWe are removing obstacles for Black and brown girls to get the training, network, and community they need to reach their gymnastics goals,ā€ said Derrin Moore, founder of BGDG. ā€œOur work to help HBCUs launch gymnastics programming is only one piece of the puzzle. We are creating a system to provide full support of our Brown Girls from

TSU Students Among Brightest Minds Selected For Thurgood College Fund Inaugural Apple Engineering & Innovation Program

By Alexis Clark Three Tennessee State University students have been selected to participate in the inaugural class of Appleā€™s Engineering & Innovation (E&I) Program. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) announced thatĀ Derrion Boyce, Ashleigh Thomas and Tenille Cochran are the TSU Apple Scholars for the program. All showed their gratitude for the scholarship award of $15,000 for the academic school year. Boyce, a first-generation college student and rising senior majoring in electrical engineering, said the Apple HBCU Scholars award allows him to have a seamless journey to obtaining his degree. ā€œThis scholarship has given me more hope, and less worry

Xavier Alum Receives 2022 Black Engineer of the Year Award in STEM for Professional Achievement, Gives Back to Current Xavierites

Courtesy of Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier alum Dr. Leonard Lightfoot (ā€˜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 theĀ Air Force Research Laboratoryā€™sĀ Sensors Directorate. Dr. Lightfoot is also a co-founder of the Black Coffee Company, a company guided by the values of giving back to the community. In the spirit of philanthropy, Dr. Lightfoot and his colleagues support the annual Give.Love.Xavier day campaign.Ā Ā Ā  Dr. Lightfoot shared how he developed lifelong friendships among his peers during his time at Xavier. He and his Black

Saint Augustineā€™s University Announces the Nationā€™s First HBCU Urban Access Hub to Advance Equity in Education

Saint Augustineā€™s University (SAU) was founded in 1867 to educate freed slaves in Raleigh, North Carolina. Today, SAU officially announces the nationā€™s first HBCU Urban Access Hub to advance equity in education by taking the HBCU experience to urban communities where there is no HBCU. ā€œDespite the gains that African Americans have made, too many youths arenā€™t taking advantage of education in America,ā€ said SAU President Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail. ā€œWith year-long access to the university, students will find opportunities to come to SAU, including summer enrichment programs, financial aid, and scholarships, starting in the ninth grade.ā€ The HBCU Urban

Two Award Winning Black Journalists Bring Their Teaching Talent To Cheyney

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 Dr. Gooyong Kim said he wanted to bring in two active, accomplished professionals to provide a current perspective to the classroom. ā€œThe mass media industry moves fast so we need to have not only the textbook perspective in the classroom, but we also need to

The Fourth Annual Morehouse College Human Rights Film Festival Announces Early Selection Films and Inaugural Advisory Board

By Morehouse College Morehouse College, the nationā€™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 event will be presented by Chromatic Black in partnership with Steal The Sun Studios. The festival will also be accessible virtually from September 20 to September 30, 2022. Badges are now on sale at a 50 percent discount. The threefold goal of MCHRFF is to

Howard University Names Allison Morgan Bryant, Ph.D., Chief of Staff, Assistant Vice President of Corporate Relations

By Misha Cornelius Howard University is pleased to announceĀ Allison Morgan Bryant, Ph.D.,Ā will serve as chief of staff and assistant vice president of corporate relations effective immediately. She replaces Paul Monteiro, who served as Howardā€™s chief of staff since 2017 and Debbi Jarvis who served as senior vice president of corporate relations since 2018. ā€œI am incredibly excited to announce Dr. Allison Morgan Bryant will serve as Howardā€™s chief of staff and assistant vice president of corporate relations,ā€ saidĀ Wayne A. I. Frederick, president of Howard University. ā€œDr. Morgan Bryantā€™s extensive experience and her commitment to Howard Universityā€™s mission will ensure her

Chief student marshals on mission to increase representation of Black people in tech industry

By Southern University Tech led the way for nearly 600 Southern University and A&M College graduates on May 13. The Spring Class of 2022 featured two chief student marshals, both with a 4.0 GPA and majoring in computer science. Candace Chatman of Baton Rouge and Rason Irvin of Houston will also begin careers with two of the largest tech companies in the world and hope to encourage other Black students to enter the industry. ā€œ(On some company teams), Iā€™ve only worked with one Black person,ā€ said Irvin, who will be heading to Adobe as a project manager. ā€œI get on

I faced my share of challenges, but the HBCU experience owes me nothing

By Alexis Davis I walked into my historically Black college and university (HBCU) with aspirations to be a plastic surgeon living in Beverly Hills, California, with Rodeo Drive at my fingertips. But I left my HBCU a well-rounded sports journalist ready to tell the stories of the underrepresented. When I rolled my 14 suitcases through the East Village dormitory at Florida A&M University with my mother, grandmother and father, I felt like an overdue egg that finally hatched. We traveled from BWI Airport to Jacksonville, Florida, and drove three hours to Tallahassee. Before I set foot on the ā€œHighest of

High marks for HBCUs: The 50 colleges that are the best academic stewards for students

By Chris Hurt Changing the dynamics on rankings, AcademicInfluence uses a new algorithm to measure institutional support. A No. 16 ranking among peers might be great, even if that No. 60 ranking isnā€™t so hot. One way or another, colleges and universities always find a way to put a spin on national ratings to make their institutions more attractive. After all, administrators, students and prospective students do go to them for bragging rights and even for guidance. But are annual updates fromĀ U.S. News & World ReportĀ and others really that accurate? There has been much debate, including the critiques of scholarĀ Malcolm

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