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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.

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

Florida A&M University (FAMU) team wins 1st place prize. The students also participated in mentoring and financial literacy sessions, in addition to pitching their solutions for critical areas in the city of Detroit to an expert panel of judges that included Big Sean, founder of The Sean Anderson Foundation.

‘Moguls in the Making’ promotes financial literacy among students from historically black colleges and universities.

The entertainer’s nonprofit, the Sean Anderson Foundation, has partnered with Ally Financial and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund to host the contest. The program, which started Friday and ended Sunday night, gave students from historically black colleges and universities nationwide an opportunity to plan, develop and present a business plan in front of their peers and a panel of judges. In between preparing for their presentations, students participated in sessions on financial literacy, idea pitching, and building a business model.

Today, student loan debt is the second greatest source of individual debt, only behind mortgages, according to the Federal Reserve. Something must be done about the ever-rising student debt, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) is taking the issue of financial literacy with HBCU students head-on.

This partnership, which officially began with the signing of a memorandum of understand on March 29, will strive to provide resources to those schools to encourage faculty and student STEM research.

HBCUs must galvanize and maximize their internal fundraising efforts and prove that they are working just as hard if they are to continue asking the state and federal government for support.

Davis, executive vice president and chief corporate affairs officer of RWJBarnabas Health as well as immediate past president of Executive Women of New Jersey, was given the annual award for exemplifying the late Supreme Court justice’s passion for civil rights, justice and education.

Michellene Davis, a senior executive at RWJBarnabas Health, earned the “Thurgood Marshall Award of Excellence for New Jersey.”

This year’s report presents the initial phase in the creation of an “Opportunity Index” that will allow researchers and policymakers to compare residents’ perceptions of specific factors that block or facilitate their access to opportunity across communities and over time.