By Alaa Elassar, CNN
Georgetown University has announced a new program that will allow some Maryland prison inmates to earn bachelor's degrees.
The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) will lead the five-year program. It will choose ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2021 at 1:03PM
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Fisk University is thrilled to announce a $1,100,000 gift from an anonymous donor. The donor identified the Fisk Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program as the focus of the gift. Fisk’s partnership with Vanderbilt University has long been a leading ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 6:22PM
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The magistrate court in Clayton County, GA has nine judges, all of them are Black. Out of the 9 judges, 8 of them are Black women! This is the first time in the county's history to have an all-Black magistrate bench!
The court's Cheif Judge Keish ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 6:18PM
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Actor and best-selling author Hill Harper recently announced that he is set to launch “The Black Wall Street” app, a Black-owned digital wallet application. According to Black Enterprise, the launching of The Black Wall Street (TBWS) app is the first ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 6:03PM
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Texas Southern University (TSU) has officially launched its partnership with the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) to offer students the SIFMA Invest! platform throughout their time at TSU. This program and its virtual pla ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 5:33PM
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Big news for Morris Brown students, alum, and a huge victory for the entire HBCU community: Morris Brown College is set to regain its accreditation! After nearly 20 years have passed since the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools revoked its ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 12:55PM
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First Boulevard, a digitally native neobank focused on improving the financial livelihood of Black America, recently announced it has raised $5 million in Seed funding from a group of leading financial services investors including Barclays and Anthem ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 12:21PM
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Gov. Kemp's Georgia Gestapo demonstrating that Jim Crow is back to the cheers of racist insurrectionist supporters, showing there's a new day for the Old South by publicly putting an African American woman into shackles - in other words, in her place ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2021 at 8:47AM
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Do you wonder how to get your business more followers on social media? Are you confused by lawyer jargon and need law advice for your small business? Don’t worry the Black and Brown Business Summit has your back with an event jam packed full of panelists! ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 7:11PM
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Allen University will host a virtual open house event on Saturday, April 17, 2021 from 10AM - 12:30PM EST via Zoom. The event is open to the public but you will need to register as space is limited. Learn about financial aid; speak to a professional ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 6:59PM
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In a statement recently released on the CDC website, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky acknowledged that racism is a systematic horror that plagues people of color every single day, calling it a "serious public health threat." She also spoke on how COVI ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 6:15PM
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Kentucky State University was recently awarded $260,000 from the James Graham Brown Foundation for a project that will support veterans and adult work-ready training.
According to the grant proposal, the project is designed to support adult, tran ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 6:00PM
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This Black film quiz has been making its rounds on social media and we just had to see what y'all have to say about this. Word on the street is you need at least 30/47 to pass.
How man you seen? pic.twitter.com/YLZTUKScQE— OFFICIAL JO$H JONE$ (@re ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 5:42PM
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Today, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced it will provide more than $6 million collectively to the nation’s four historically Black medical schools to expand their mobile unit COVID-19 vaccine operations in their local communities of Nashville, Tenne ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2021 at 3:22PM
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