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In 2020, the company accelerated efforts to address systemic inequities within and outside its walls. Medtronic Releases Second Annual Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity ReportIf this past year had one silver lining, it was a reinvigorated push for social and racial justice. Building a better and more just world for everyone requires pivoting the approach, transparency […]

Scholarships to Increase Access and CompletionFor Minority, LGBTQ+, First Gen, and Low-income Students Application Window Opens on Jan. 25 NEWARK, Del., Jan. 25, 2021 – The Sallie Mae Fund, the charitable arm of Sallie Mae®, has partnered with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to launch a new scholarship program to meet the needs of minority […]

WASHINGTON, DC (December 31, 2020) – TMCF applauds President Trump’s signing of the HBCU Propelling Agency Relationships Towards a New Era of Results for Students Act (HBCU PARTNERS Act) into law. “We thank President Trump for signing this important legislation and extend our appreciation to the White House Initiatives on HBCUs for its effort to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC (December 22, 2020) – The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) congratulates and extends its sincere thanks to Congress for its historic investments into Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) in the FY 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act and Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act. The […]

With no advance notice, the billionaire’s representatives launched a flurry of emails and telephone calls this year to unsuspecting colleges and universities across the country dedicated to serving large numbers of Black, Latino and Native American students. In early October, one such message reached Harold L. Martin, chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University, the […]

WASHINGTON, DC (December 17, 2020) – Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) has received a $5 million gift from the charitable foundation established by philanthropist Stephen Feinberg. The substantial gift will fund the Stephen Feinberg Scholarship Program, which will provide need-based scholarships to students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC (December 11, 2020) – Thurgood Marshall College Fund applauds the United States Senate for passing the HBCU Propelling Agency Relationships Towards a New Era of Results for Students Act (HBCU PARTNERS Act) again, by unanimous consent. The HBCU PARTNERS Act, which has been a top legislative priority of the Thurgood […]

Washington, D.C.—The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and the Society of African American Professionals (SOAAP) are pleased to announce a partnership to introduce young boys and girls to college and to the world of work. Globalization, technology and huge demographic changes over the last 40 years have forced the nation to find new and more […]

HERSHEY, Pa., Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) today announced it will invest $1.5 million in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to establish a scholarship endowment, with the goal to increase that to $3 million over the next ten years. The endowment will be used for students pursuing degrees in […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, DC (December 7, 2020) – For over two years, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) Government Relations team has taken the lead working with key members of Congress, their respective staffs and the Trump Administration to finally codify the aspirational goals that have been contained in Executive Orders since the Carter […]

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. […]

Santa Monica, CA – November 11, 2020 – Universal Music Group’s Task Force for Meaningful Change (UMG TFMC) announced today a partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the Black college community, to launch the “UMG Historically Black College and Universities (HBCUs) Internship Program.” The UMG HBCU Internship […]

Officials say their schools are well-equipped to address the pandemic for their communities in light of a history of abuses by the medical establishment. James Hildreth, president of Meharry Medical College, hopes the coronavirus vaccine under investigation by his historically Black institution in Nashville will help bring an end to a virus that is disproportionately […]