By The Associated Press Charles Barkley has donated $1 million to historically Black Miles College. The Basketball Hall of Famer and former Auburn star told interim president Bobbie Knight about the donation on Jan. 8, news outlets reported. In this June 24, 2019, file photo, Charles Barkley arrives at the NBA Awards o at the […]
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Morgan State Authorized to Pursue Addition of New College of Osteopathic Medicine
By AFRO Staff Morgan State University may be well on its way to grooming a new generation of Black physicians. The school’s Board of Regents recently gave President David Wilson permission to pursue an affiliation agreement with Salud Education, LLC that may mean the creation of a new College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Baltimore […]
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Coppin Offers Md.’s Only Nonprofit Leadership Degree
By Renee Foose, Special to the AFRO Burning the candle at both ends as a young mother, working full time and studying for her degree part time, LaShawna Wright was stretched even further when she found herself in a battle with the Baltimore City court system. Wright was fighting for custody of her sister following the […]
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Trump Signs Future Act to Help HBCUs, Minority-Serving Institutions
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia One day after the House impeached him, President Donald Trump took decisive action to support and empower Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country. The President put his signature on the Future Act, legislation that for the time includes HBCUs in the federal 5-year […]
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Sustainability and Climate Change in Architecture Schools
By Jazmin Conner and Maris Medina Capital News Service/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Nicole Ponce, a senior architecture student at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), visited a freshwater lake in the Netherlands as part of a class last summer. Her assignment was to envision sustainable housing and commercial uses for the site. She […]
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Bringing Awareness to Black Mental Health, Even at HBCUs
By Micha Green D.C. Editor mgreen@afro.com As women who were already “woke,” about the importance of prioritizing mental health care after experiences of their own Starr Barbour and Sasha Nicole teamed up to bring awareness to the Black community- that collaboration turned into Amerikan Therapy Podcast and now the HBCU Mental Health College Tour. Starting […]
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Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Fosters Christmas Spirit
By Beverly Richards It’s the holiday season, and families are buying trees to decorate, pulling out grandma’s sugar cookies recipe, and deciding whether to buy dad more socks or more tools — but not for all families. Unfortunately, for more than 1.2 million Americans, maintaining a roof over their heads, putting food on the table, […]
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Goldman Sachs 10kSBP at Morgan State
By Imani Wj Wright Special to AFRO Recently, Morgan State University hosted Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Business Program Graduation. Goldman Sachs was proud to announce that the 2019 graduating class included 110 entrepreneurs in the Baltimore area. Jocelyn Gainers, Elijah Cummings Impact Award Winner. (Photos by Imani Wright) “Fulfilling its commitment to small business enterprise […]
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AFRO Publisher Retraces Grandfather’s 1959 Trek to Cuba
By DeWayne Wickham HAVANA, Cuba – When AFRO American publisher Dr. Frances “Toni” Draper walked off JetBlue flight 503 last week into the international terminal of Cuba’s Jose Marti Airport she wasn’t just entering what for many Americans is thought to be a forbidden land, she was retracing steps taken by her grandfather 60 years […]
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Trump Signs Bill Restoring Funding for Black Colleges
By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bipartisan bill that will permanently provide more than $250 million a year to the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, along with dozens of other institutions that serve large shares of minority students. In signing the bill, Trump said historically Black schools […]
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Congressional Black Caucus Members Talk Impeachment, HBCU Funding
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Shortly after the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to impeach President Donald Trump on Friday, December 13, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) held a conference call with publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade association of Black Press publications […]
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AAAS Selects Dr. Willie May as a Fellow
By AFRO Staff The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the election of Morgan State University’s Willie E. May, Ph.D. as a 2019 AAAS Fellow. May, who serves as Morgan’s vice president for the Division of Research and Economic Development (D-RED), was among the more than 400 newly elected leading scientists […]
