Former UPS Driver and Morgan State Alumnus Calvin Tyler has committed to give $20 Million to his alma mater to help ensure access to higher education for generations to come. Read more about his generous donation in this full press release from Morga ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2021 at 9:34PM
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Last week, 18-year-old Rodney “RJ” Reese was arrested and charged for being a pedestrian in the roadway while walking home during a snowstorm in Plano, Texas. The officers were initially responding to a welfare check when someone called the police an ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2021 at 9:17PM
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Two HBCU graduates and proud members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. founded QuikLiq while attending Clark Atlanta University in 2011. Navarr Grevious and Mikael Pyles launched QuikLiq in 2018 and since then these college friends turned business ...
Posted Monday, February 22nd 2021 at 9:05PM
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More support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities is coming from the NBA.
The league announced that it will commit more than $2.5 million in funds and resources to HBCUs as part of this year's All-Star Game.
The funding will be give ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2021 at 1:15PM
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Diageo is yet another major company showing support to HBCUs in a major way! Earlier this month, the beer and spirit company announced that it would be donating $10 million to help create endowments and financial support for 25 HBCUs and their studen ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2021 at 12:45PM
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From March 12-14, the Atlanta Braves will be hosting the Inaugural Ralph Garr-Bill Lucas HBCU Baseball Classic in honor of former Braves players Ralph Garr and Bill Lucas. The annual weekend series will consist of three games played between FAMU and ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2021 at 12:31PM
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This is not your grandfather’s Jackson State football team. But new Tigers head football coach Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders wishes it were.
Those were the days when the best NFL prospects came from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2021 at 12:29PM
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Atlanta mayor and FAMU graduate Keisha Lance Bottoms is making headlines for her comments on the upcoming All-Star game that is set to take place in Atlanta. "People should not travel to Atlanta to party," she said in a statement. "Under normal circu ...
Posted Friday, February 19th 2021 at 11:49AM
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The NBA officially announced Thursday that it will be holding the All-Star Game on March 7 in Atlanta and will partner with the NBPA to give more than $2.5 million to HBCUs as well as to support awareness around equity and access to COVID-19 care, re ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 3:13PM
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TBS is making Black History Month that much better with its HBCU Cash Out contest! Are you a recent HBCU grad? Well, this contest is giving three lucky HBCU grads the opportunity to win $25,000! In collaboration with Spelman College graduate Keisha K ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 1:06PM
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Investment Bank Goldman Sachs is showing support for HBCUs in a major way! On Wednesday it announced that it will be committing $25 million through its new “Market Madness” program. Check out the full Goldman Sachs press release below to find out mor ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 12:46PM
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The HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative, created to help preserve the historic and cultural significance of HBCUs, will be giving over $650,000 in grants to HBCUs around the country. The new initiative comes after several leaders at Black c ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 12:05PM
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As part of its commitment to build a more equitable world, Intel will donate $5 million over the next five years to North Carolina Central University (NCCU), a historically Black college and university (HBCU), to create a new tech law and policy cent ...
Posted Thursday, February 18th 2021 at 4:51AM
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A professor at Fort Valley State University is under fire after a student tweeted about a joke she made during class. On Tuesday, an FVSU student identified as Janei Dortilus, took to Twitter to recall a conversation that occurred between her profess ...
Posted Wednesday, February 17th 2021 at 9:17PM
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Top tech company Intel has committed to donating $5 million over the course of the next five years to establish a brand new law and policy center for North Carolina Central University! Read more about this monumental donation below in the full NCCU p ...
Posted Wednesday, February 17th 2021 at 8:23PM
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