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Alpha Phi Alpha Awards Scholarships to South Dade Graduates​

06/07/23

The South Dade Alphas honored several minority high school graduates with college scholarships at the organization’s annual community gala on Saturday, June 3, 2023, at the University of Miami Newman Alumni Center.
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Iota Pi Lambda Chapter, provided eight high school graduates from the South Dade community with scholarships as part of the organization’s “Go to High School, Go to College” national initiative. Close to $8,000 in scholarships were awarded through the Iota Pi Lambda Education Foundation.

“In the spirit of our fraternity, we’ve gathered to celebrate the achievements of several young men who have demonstrated noteworthy commitment in the classroom and community,” said Bryan Jones, president of the IPL Education Foundation.
Scholarship recipients graduated from various high schools in South Dade including Robert Morgan Education Center, Coral Reef Senior High, Terra Environment Research Institute, Gulliver Preparatory, and the School for Advanced Studies.

Students were selected based on their grades, community service and leadership at school. Several scholarships were provided to students who would be attending a Historically Black College or University.

 

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Alumna Dr. Leslie Black endows scholarship to provide opportunities for future TROY students - Troy Today

Two-time alumna Dr. Leslie Black says her time at Troy University helped to lay the foundation for her career success, and now, she wants to provide those same opportunities for future TROY students. Dr. Black has endowed the Dr. Leslie S. Black Endowed Scholarship, which will assist students...

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Alumna Dr. Leslie Black endows scholarship to provide opportunities for future TROY students​

Alumni | June 12, 2023

Alumna Dr. Leslie Black has endowed a scholarship that will aid students pursuing degrees in Health and Human Services or College of Business.



Two-time alumna Dr. Leslie Black says her time at Troy University helped to lay the foundation for her career success, and now, she wants to provide those same opportunities for future TROY students.
Dr. Black has endowed the Dr. Leslie S. Black Endowed Scholarship, which will assist students from Cordova High School, her alma mater, pursuing a degree within TROY’s College of Health and Human Services or the Sorrell College of Business on the Troy Campus. Should no applicants meet this criterion, second preference will be given to African American applicants within the two colleges.
Dr. Black, who now serves as a Sales Effectiveness Manager for Pfizer Inc., came to TROY after receiving the George C. Wallace Leadership Scholarship and knows the impact scholarship funds can have for students who might not otherwise be able to attend college.
“Once I hit a stride in my career financially, I knew that I wanted to leave a legacy, a mark,” she said. “One of the ways I felt I could build that legacy was through an endowment and something that would live in perpetuity. I’ve always been an advocate for the athletic training scholarship at TROY and was a consistent donor to it. I always talked to my family about having a scholarship in my name or a building with my name on it at TROY. When the opportunity finally presented itself, I was very proud to be able to put my name on a scholarship at TROY.”
Specifying Cordova High School as a first qualifier for the scholarship was important to Dr. Black because of the lack of resources students in the area generally face.
“It is a very small town and was devastated by the tornadoes that came through the Birmingham and Tuscaloosa areas several years ago. Those smaller towns tend to get left out,” Dr. Black said. “Getting the George C. Wallace Scholarship was significant in me being able to go to college, so I wanted to be able to do the same. I think about how I was as a little girl and what would have helped me, so I wanted to do that same thing. That is why I put those layers into the scholarship.”

 

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College grad seeking help for medical school finances gets surprise donation from NBA star

One college graduate who's made a GoFundMe for medical school expenses received a large donation from an NBA star.

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Diddy makes good on his financial pledge to Jackson State football in honor of Deion Sanders

Jackson State athletics will receive first installment of $1 million pledge from hip-hop mogul Diddy on June 23, the school has revealed

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Diddy makes good on his financial pledge to Jackson State football in honor of Deion Sanders​

June 16, 2023
The Deion Sanders Effect is still being felt at Jackson State even after he departed as football coach. Sanders became the coach at Colorado in December 2022, but his celebrity friend, Sean "Diddy" Combs, has made good on his promise to give $1 million to Jackson State.


On June 26, 2022, Combs pledged $1 million to Howard University, the HBCU in Washington, D.C., that he attended. The pledge was made during the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards. After leaving Howard, Combs became an intern at Uptown Records before going on to huge success as a platinum-selling hip-hop artist and record executive.

"Before I leave, I want to donate $1 million dollars to Howard University," Combs said during his speech. "Also, I'm going to drop another million dollars on Deion Sanders and Jackson State because we should play for us."






Dr. Elayne Hayes-Anthony, interim president at Jackson State University, revealed the donation as she was speaking at the monthly IHL board of trustees meeting Tuesday, which was posted on Twitter.

"P Diddy, as our students call him, and as we probably know him as Sean Combs, has released $1 million dollars to Jackson State for athletics," Hayes-Anthony said. "And we are very, very pleased about that. We will be receiving $332,000 by June 23 as a first installment and we get another installment in 2024 and another in 2025


During Sanders' tenure at Jackson State, Combs was not the only celebrity to announce a donation to JSU. Rapper Ja Rule, in July 2022, pledged part of the proceeds of his 1,000 1-of-1 NFTs to support HBCUs: Hampton, Morgan, Spelman, Morehouse and Jackson State. It is unclear if the donation was earmarked for the athletic department or the general fund. And there is no word on when Ja Rule will send his pledge to JSU.

Former NBA star Charles Barkley announced in December that he would donate $1 million each to Jackson State and another HBCU, Bethune-Cookman.

Barkley pledge is scheduled to be received by JSU in July.

It is unclear if those donations have been made

 

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NCCU Trustee Michael Johnson Gifts $500,000 to Rename School of Business Administration Program | North Carolina Central University

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NCCU Trustee Michael Johnson Gifts $500,000 to Rename School of Business Administration Program​

May 22, 2023​

The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Business has received a significant contribution from Michael Johnson ’69, vice chairman of the NCCU Board of Trustees, to rename the business administration program as the Michael P. Johnson Business Administration Program.
The $500,000 gift from Johnson will support the continued curriculum development, marketing and student recruitment efforts for the business administration program.
"The School of Business is honored to receive such a generous donation from Trustee Michael Johnson," said Anthony C. Nelson, Ph.D., NCCU School of Business dean. “His contribution will inspire and have a lasting impact on our students, faculty, and the community. The renaming of the program in his honor is a testament to his commitment to education and his dedication to the success of our students."

 

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Charles Barkley and Reggie Theus: Two Stars With One Misson - Bethune-Cookman University - Bethune-Cookman University Athletics

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Charles Barkley, through The Barkley Foundation, recently provided a generous and transformative donation to Bethune-Cookman University, as

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07/06/23
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Charles Barkley, through The Barkley Foundation, recently provided a generous and transformative donation to Bethune-Cookman University, as the first installment of the NBA Hall of Famer's $1 million dollar pledge was received by the University.

Reggie Theus, Director of Athletics and Men's Basketball Head Coach at B-CU said, "The donation is a game changer."

The highlight of that support was announced in April, when Theus and his staff broke ground on a new on-campus turf practice facility to house Bethune-Cookman Football, which is set to begin hosting the Wildcats this fall

 

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Black Girls Go to Yale initiative ​

Black Girls Go to Yale initiative Credit: The SASH Lab photo

Aug 1, 2023
One hundred young Black girls from East Orange, Newark, and Hillside took a trip to Yale University on July 28th to participate in the Black Girls Go to Yale initiative. The initiative, which was created last year by Dr. Ijeoma Opara, brings young Black girls to New Haven, Connecticut, to tour the Ivy League campus, meet the many Black women who work there, and see for themselves that higher education is an attainable goal.


The theme for their trip was “You Belong in the Room.”


Dr. Opara, director of Yale University’s Substances & Sexual Health (SASH) Lab, founded the Black Girls Go to Yale initiative under the auspices of her research-based Dreamer Girls Project (DGP). The DGP employs Black girl focus groups that develop sexual health and drug use prevention programs for Black girls.


The DGP has also morphed into a Black girl empowerment project, Dr. Opara explained to the AmNews. “It basically gets Black girls interested in public health so that they could be the ones actually making public health studies in the future. It’s my way to bring Black girls into public health, to get them excited about research, so that they could be the ones leading these prevention projects that are for Black girls, by Black girls. One of the ways that I want to get Black girls interested in public health is by bringing them to a place like Yale.”


The 100 girls who visited the university on July 28th were brought there via a collaboration with the East Orange Mayor’s Office of Employment and Training, Newark Office of Violence Prevention and Trauma Recovery, and Hillside Innovation Academy. They were preceded by 25 girls from Paterson who visited the campus on July 13th. This past January, Dr. Opara also brought 9-year-old Bobbi Wilson to Yale to ensure she was honored for the work she’s done eradicating spotted lanternflies in her hometown of Caldwell, New Jersey.


Born and raised in Jersey City, Dr. Opara says she knows the challenges young Black girls face in urban communities. After her parents passed away when she was 16, she had little exposure to places like top colleges. “Nobody is telling them you can go to Yale, you can go to Harvard, you can go to Dartmouth, nobody’s exposing them to these things,” she said. Working with community partners throughout New Jersey, Dr. Opara envisioned the Black Girls Go to Yale initiative. Her ultimate goal is to bring 1,000 Black girls to Yale over the next couple of years. Young Black girls interested in participating in the Black Girls Go to Yale initiative can contact Dr. Opara at www.oparalab.org.

 

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Dalgety Teas to support the NHS to reach 100,000 potential new blood donors of Black heritage

People of Black heritage are being encouraged to save lives by becoming a blood donor as part of a new partnership between NHS Blood and Transplant and Dalgety Teas.

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