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How funders, school leaders can step up to combat philanthropic disparities faced by HBCUs
Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY – Changes are necessary on both sides of the table to address the chronic lack of funding faced by historically Black colleges and universities, some experts say in the wake of a report showing the vast funding disparity between Historically Black Colleges and Universities and their Ivy League counterparts. While the largest…
Read MoreThe Africatown International Design Idea Competition Submissions Imagine An Afrocentric Future for Mobile’s Historic, Global Community
(Mobile, AL, May 19, 2023) — The designs are in to The Africatown International Design Idea Competition, the world’s first multi-site design challenge centered on Afrocentric visuals and architecture, created to benefit a specific Black Space: Africatown, a globally significant, yet highly under-served heritage community indesperate need of historic preservation and community regeneration.According to organizers…
Read MoreVoorhees CEO named president of the Association of Episcopal Colleges
Voorhees University president Dr. Ronnie Hopkins has been appointed president of the Association of Episcopal Colleges (AEC). A subsidiary of the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion, AEC consists of eight colleges and universities in the United States and abroad that are affiliated with the Episcopal Church. “I am honored to serve at the…
Read MoreVOORHEES UNIVERSITY AWARDS 70 UNDERGRADUATE AND SEVEN FIRST TIME MASTER’S DEGREES AT 126TH COMMENCEMENT
Denmark, SC – Voorhees University held its 126th Commencement exercise on Saturday, May 6, with seventy students graduating with undergraduate degrees and seven receiving the University’s first-ever graduate degrees. Shelley Ann Bronson, Aliska LaShaun Brown, Ruthie Furse Brown, LaTayvia Shlequia Green, Madyson Simone Harris, Equanda Maria Wearing, and Denigia Kenu Williams were the inaugural graduate…
Read MorePhil Knight donates $400 million to rebuild Portland’s black community.
By Rachel Bachman – On Monday, Mr. Knight and his wife, Penny, are set to announce they’re donating $400 million to rebuild Portland’s Albina area, a historically Black community whose residents have experienced decades of disruption and displacement. Rebuild Albina will be a project of the newly established 1803 Fund, a nonprofit that aims to combine…
Read MoreUpdate on Oscar winner’s health scare as he remains hospitalized
Story by Mark Graym, MSN – Though Jamie Foxx is still hospitalized for an unknown “medical complication,” he’s “steadily improving,” a source told People magazine on April 14. Following the situation involving the Oscar-winning actor, production of his new Netflix film “Back In Action” was “shut down,” TMZ reported, noting that Jamie has eight unfinished days of shooting left on the movie.…
Read MoreClinton College in Rock Hill announces plans to add seven new scholarship sports
by Michael Burgess, The Herald. Rock Hill, SC .Clinton College will add several new sports in the coming years. Athletic Director Daphnie Johnson said the historically Black college in Rock Hill, S.C., will add baseball, softball and men’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s cross country. These will, in varying degrees, be…
Read MoreThis Is Why Black History Month Is Celebrated in February
This Is Why Black History Month Is Celebrated in February Story by Ni’Kesia Pannell For many people, Black History Month was the one month where the history of Black Americans was talked about each day in school. We wrote papers on Martin Luther King Jr., heard the story of Rosa Parks, and got brief overviews of Harriet Tubman…
Read MoreU.S. Supreme Court enabled racial gerrymandering in South Carolina
By Hassan Kanu (Reuters) – After the 2020 Census, South Carolina’s Republican-led legislature assured Democratic lawmakers and the public that they would carry out a fair and transparent process to redraw the state’s seven Congressional election districts. A year earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had decided for the first time that partisan gerrymandering is lawful,…
Read MoreReverend Justin Emanuel Wade Keynotes Annual MLK Day Program
Denmark, S.C. – Reverend Justin Emanuel Wade, keynote speaker for Voorhees University’s Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day program, is a native of the Bronx, New York, and now resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. Wade, associate minister at The Rush Metropolitan AME Zion church located in Raleigh, North Carolina, charged Voorhees students to do justice, love mercy,…
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