WASHINGTON, D.C. – Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show host, comedian, actress, and best-selling author Sherri Shepherd will serve as the host of the 2023 Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s 36th Annual Leaders & Legends Gala taking place at the Washington Hilton on Saturday, September 23, 2023. This highly anticipated event marks the culmination of an impactful week for TMCF, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s award-winning Leadership Institute sponsored by Wells Fargo will be held from Wednesday, September 20 through Saturday, September 23 at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. The 2023 theme is, “Claim Your Flame “which kindles the interest and prepares students to blaze a path of success and allows them […]
Strong First-Year Results and Positive Trends in Student Enrollment and Retention Pave Way to Major Expansion of The HBCU Transformation Project New York–The HBCU Transformation Project received a $124 million investment from Blue Meridian Partners, increasing its total investment to $184 million. The new investment will expand the Transformation Project’s work to drive systemic improvements among historically […]
In light of the recent shootings in Jacksonville, Florida and one on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill that took the lives of four people over the last few days, Thurgood Marshall College Fund, with heavy hearts, offers its condolences and sends its prayers to the victims and their families […]
Washington, D.C. (August 28, 2023) – In commemoration of the 60 th anniversary of historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Dr. N. Joyce Payne Center for Social Justice of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund announced the release of a premiere report on Black Thriving in America: 2023 scheduled for Monday, September 18, […]
The iconic March on Washington was held on August 28, 1963. It was nine years after Justice Thurgood Marshall won the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case that cemented his legacy as one of the best lawyers in the country. The march was also four years before Marshall was appointed to the U.S. Supreme […]