Washington D.C. – Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the Black college community, has announced a partnership with John Deere to launch the Farm Fellowship internship program. The Federation of Southern Cooperative/Land Assistance Fund will welcome up to three law students who will aide in the critical work of the […]
Golf star Phil Mickelson has donated a half-million dollars to Jackson State University, a historically Black school, ahead of a televised charity golfing event this Friday. The event, Capital One’s The Match: Champions for Change aims to organize funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) across the country. The Mississippi university announced the $500,000 […]
November 23, 2020 — TORRANCE, Calif. Honda teams up with Omaze to offer one winner the first U.S. market 2021 Civic Type R Limited Edition Serial Plate 001 production model Omaze prize package includes the Civic Type R Limited Edition and Honda “Racing Spirit” package with exclusive race track experience with Colton Herta Every donation […]
HBCUs TAKE A GAMBLE — The stakes were high for historically Black colleges and universities this semester. The institutions had to weigh fears about coronavirus spread for an especially vulnerable group of people against the fear that students would take a semester off, never to return and be saddled with debt without a degree to […]
While it hasn’t gotten much attention, Biden’s campaign pledge to deal with the long-standing disparity in research grants encourages HBCUs. For decades, and really for as long as historically Black colleges and universities have existed, those running and doing research at the institutions have been angered that the deck has been stacked against their getting […]
(based on HBCU FB posts) CONGRESS Rep. Alma S. Adams. North Carolina’s 12th District. North Carolina A&T Rep. Joyce Beatty, Ohio 3rd District. Central State University Rep. Cori Bush, 1st Black Woman to represent Missouri in Congress. Harris Stowe State University Rep. G.K. Butterfield, re-elected to represent North Carolina 1st Dist. North Carolina Central Univ. […]