By Annie Ma The United Negro College Fund announced a donation of $100 million from the Lilly Endowment Inc., the single largest unrestricted gift to the organization since its founding 80 years ago. The gift announced Thursday will go toward a pooled endowment for the 37 historically Black colleges and universities that form UNCF’s membership,
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By Sara Weissman Historically Black colleges and universities received 178 times less funding from philanthropic foundations compared to Ivy League institutions on average in 2019, according to a new report by Candid, a philanthropy research group, and ABFE, an organization that advocates for investing in Black communities. The report, released Tuesday, found that the Ivies received
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By Char Adams Ashley Reeves, an Indiana school teacher, dreamed of getting her teaching license but could not afford the high price of certification. She settled for a renewable teaching permit, which allows educators to work for one year, to teach at George and Veronica Phalen Leadership Academy, a kindergarten through eighth grade school in Indianapolis.
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By North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University’s Text-in-Community (TIC) program has announced Adam Harris’ highly lauded “The State Must Provide: Why America’s Colleges Have Always Been Unequal – And How to Set Them Right” as the campus book for the 2022-23 academic year. Harris is an award-winning
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By Joel Brown There were many Black professionals and academics watching Tuesday morning’s interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones as if they were sitting in a Black church. That is to say, there were some loud “amens” spoken in agreement to what Hannah-Jones said about achieving success in white spaces. “I’ve spent my entire life proving that
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