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Writer Lexx Thornton Pennsylvania Cheyney University, in 2024-2025, he said he was awarded a $ 20,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Education Department. This financing supports its sustainable efforts to ensure that all students can be reliable to protect an environment of all students, academics, social and personally. Pennsylvania is aimed at resolving the basic needs of students by PA, approved by First Lady Shapiro, reduce hunger-hunger-hunger campus initiative, hunger and setting up coalitions between colleges and universities. Through this grant, Chewayaya University will develop existing support structures, develop targeted hunger-prevention strategies and strengthen the sources that help reduce food insecurity…

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Georgia Tech’s mission is to develop leaders and advance technology that improves the human condition. Across campus, Black students, faculty, and staff are excelling in research, teaching, entrepreneurship, athletics, and many other areas. Their stories and voices remind us of the importance of diversity and inclusion at the Institute that began 60 years ago with the matriculation of Georgia Tech’s first Black students. Through courage, conviction, vision, and leadership, Black Yellow Jackets are a vital part of our future at Georgia Tech and throughout the world. Source link

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Determining the Facts Excerpt from the National Register Nomination for Chicago’s Black Metropolis The Black Metropolis Thematic nomination is comprised of eight individual buildings and one public monument which collectively represent what are among the most significant landmarks of black urban history in the United States. Centered in the vicinity of State and Thirty-fifth streets on Chicago’s Near South Side, these properties are the tangible remains of what was once a thriving “city-within-a-city” created in the early part of this century by the city’s black community as an alternative to the restrictions, exploitations, and indifference that characterized the prevalent attitudes…

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“Entrepreneurship is kind of a self-motivating path where if you’re not pursuing, it’s not really being pursued,” said Pernell Cezar, co-founder of Blk & Bold. DES MOINES, Iowa — Pernell Cezar, co-founder and CEO of BLK & Bold, is using his business expertise to help other Black entrepreneurs become more successful. And it’s all being captured by cameras for a “Shark Tank”-style reality show, where the winner walks away with a big prize.  Cezar and his partner started BLK & Bold, a community-oriented line of speciality beverages like coffee and tea, in 2018.  “Focuses on social impact at the full…

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Carmen Tapio comes from a family where she was encouraged to be an independent thinker and pursue excellence. Born among six fearless sisters, they all grew up to become entrepreneurs in academia healthcare, and entertainment. At 56, Tapio is the founder and CEO of North End Teleservices, a teleservices company which is the largest Black-owned business in Nebraska. She set up the company to create jobs in the Black community. Tapio began her career in teleservices when she was 18, rising from contact center positions to global leadership roles and a successful consulting business, her website says. The Black founder often found…

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Bart Pfankuch investigative reporter and content director bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org ROCHFORD, S.D. – One paved road leads in and out of Rochford, a remote Pennington County town that suddenly has become the center of a heated and growing debate over a proposal to mine for gold in a pristine part of the northern Black Hills.With state permits in hand, a Canadian prospecting company has begun drilling exploratory holes just south of Rochford to test its theory that potentially historic quantities of top-grade gold may lie beneath the ponderosa pines and rocky hillsides around the town.If gold is found, Mineral Mountain Resources of…

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