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First and foremost, sustaining and growing student enrollment is the key to a brighter future for HBCUs, according to educational leaders who participated in discussions that led to the report.

The fellowship awards will be available to students in a variety of undergraduate majors from liberal arts to sciences and engineering.

TMCF’s newly re-designed Innovation & Entrepreneurship Division identified the talented HBCU students who will develop solutions to business, social, or educational problems and pitch their ideas to an expert panel of judges.

Walker’s Legacy is proud to announce its ‘Women of Color in Tech’ tour powered by Comcast and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to showcase multicultural women in technology.

Last year, Walker’s Legacy and TMCF established a memorandum of understanding that would foster collaborations on programming that creates pipelines to the tech world for TMCF’s 47 member institutions.

There is much to do in Chicago and elsewhere, according to the latest State of Opportunity in America Report by the Center for Advancing Opportunity, which Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation formed in 2017, in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

A Thurgood Marshall Fund Scholar who just completed his sophomore year at ASU, Keith (his full first name is Keithbridges, but he goes by Keith) will make his first trip to California’s Silicon Valley next week for Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference—an annual confab of coders, tech creatives and other industry leaders featuring design workshops, hands-on labs and other geekish interactions.

The app is designed to make the process of grading papers more efficient allowing them more time to spend with their students. Team members won a MacBook, and DJI Mavic Air drone.

Fortunately, Johnson is one of the few students to graduate without significant debt thanks to scholarships he’s received, including one through the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

Some social scientists call it a giant step forward for the civil rights movement. Some educators see it as a major blow to Jim Crow schooling in the South and North. Others say the decision touched their hearts.

He ‘s also a mentor for Google for Entrepreneurs Exchange: Black Founders and recently acted as a judge for the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Hackathon pitch competition.

Tykira Beasley, an ECSU junior, is a member of the winning Pitch 2019 team. Pitch is an innovation and entrepreneurial competition held by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund each year.

THE PITCH 2019 is the optimum opportunity for HBCU students to learn, engage in hands-on exercises, and develop the three C’s of an Entrepreneurial Mindset: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating value.

The students joined 90 students representing 36 other historically black colleges and universities in a four-day challenging entrepreneurial competition in Durham, N.C.

Terrence J, TMCF National Ambassador, to judge and announce winners

Key additions to leadership team bring a wealth of experience, international and business acumen

Former New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne honored posthumously

The effort, called Black & Positively Golden, shows how the chain aims to deepen its ties with African-American customers, particularly millennials.