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The not-for-profit Chicago Football Classic aims to inspire African-American high school and college students to pursue academic excellence.
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Meet the Miami native and Immaculata-La Salle alum who works at the White House
BY C. ISAIAH SMALLS II UPDATED SEPTEMBER 01, 2023 3:16 PM
Liberty City native Erica Loewe pictured on the runway. A graduate of Immaculata-La Salle High School, Loewe was recently promoted to the White House’s new chief of staff of public engagement Erica Loewe
A Black woman from Liberty City now helps lead how the White House engages with citizens.
As of Aug. 28, Miami native Erica Loewe serves as the White House’s new chief of staff of public engagement. Loewe’s role allows her to control how the nation’s leader engages with various community stakeholders as well as messaging in matters of civil rights and racial equity. The White House’s former director of African American media, she called the move a “shift in portfolio” which gives her the opportunity to engage the country’s diverse population to ensure an inclusive and transparent government.
The importance of civic engagement had been impressed upon Loewe since childhood. Her uncle worked for various mayoral campaigns, her aunt worked as general counsel for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, and her mom worked at city hall, she said.
“All I know is I used to be handing out fliers at the Youth Fair, helping my mom with whatever she was working on at the moment, doing stuff at church,” Loewe recalled with a chuckle.
Despite living in Washington D.C. for more than a decade, Loewe is a Miami girl through and through.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article278845939.html#storylink=cpy
You can tell by her excitement when she mentions having recently met Trick Daddy. By the way she pauses mid conversation when she hears “Take It To the House.” And by the way her intonation changes when she talks about Supa Cindy and 99 Jamz.
But it was the Liberty City native’s high school experience at Immaculata-La Salle in Coconut Grove — something she described as a “cultural shock” – that laid the groundwork for her new role in the White House.
“I was probably one of three Black people at La Salle which I think it definitely came with challenges,” the 2007 La Salle graduate said, explaining that most of her classmates were a lot more affluent than her. “I also think that it was integral part of my upbringing and led to me doing the equity work that I do now.”
An internship at the White House after she graduated from the University of Florida in 2011 ultimately ignited a thirst for public service.
“I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do next,” Loewe recalled after she moved to Washington D.C. in the early 2010s. “I just knew President Obama was in office and I was trying to figure out how to make that make sense. That was one of the few things I could do that would make my parents happy because they were obsessed with Obama.”
After a short stint in the White House and on Obama’s 2012 inaugural committee, Loewe left for the private sector. Something about public service kept calling her name and in 2017, she began working under Rep. Maxine Waters then Rep. Jim Clyburn until finally joining the Biden White House as the director of African American media. Loewe’s time with Clyburn gave her a better understanding of the importance of democracy: she and the highest-ranking Black lawmaker were hunkered down together during the January 6th insurrection.
“You often see those pictures online of staffers pushing the table against the door and that was me and my colleagues in Mr. Clyburn’s office,” she said. The experience, she recalled, was “absolutely terrifying” yet it highlighted the importance in protecting against threats to democracy. As director of African American media, she pushed for more representation of Black-led or Black-serving outlets.
“Erica has spearheaded our Black media engagement since the early days of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Anita Dunn, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, said in a statement. “She’s smart, innovative, hardworking and has a passion that aligns with the President’s mission of ensuring everyone has a seat at the table.”
In her new role, Loewe’s purview will only expand. The office of public engagement, she describes, is essentially the “front door to the White House.” That means all outreach, official announcements and events will go through her. She will also be more involved in working more with advocacy groups and organizations than press and that front door will be open for everybody, she said
“The goal is to be helpful to and reach as many people as possible,” Loewe said. “In this role, I get to do that on behalf of the president.”
This story was originally published September 1, 2023, 12:54 PM. C. ISAIAH SMALLS II
BY C. ISAIAH SMALLS II UPDATED SEPTEMBER 01, 2023 3:16 PM
Liberty City native Erica Loewe pictured on the runway. A graduate of Immaculata-La Salle High School, Loewe was recently promoted to the White House’s new chief of staff of public engagement Erica Loewe
A Black woman from Liberty City now helps lead how the White House engages with citizens.
As of Aug. 28, Miami native Erica Loewe serves as the White House’s new chief of staff of public engagement. Loewe’s role allows her to control how the nation’s leader engages with various community stakeholders as well as messaging in matters of civil rights and racial equity. The White House’s former director of African American media, she called the move a “shift in portfolio” which gives her the opportunity to engage the country’s diverse population to ensure an inclusive and transparent government.
The importance of civic engagement had been impressed upon Loewe since childhood. Her uncle worked for various mayoral campaigns, her aunt worked as general counsel for the 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida, and her mom worked at city hall, she said.
“All I know is I used to be handing out fliers at the Youth Fair, helping my mom with whatever she was working on at the moment, doing stuff at church,” Loewe recalled with a chuckle.
Despite living in Washington D.C. for more than a decade, Loewe is a Miami girl through and through.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article278845939.html#storylink=cpy
You can tell by her excitement when she mentions having recently met Trick Daddy. By the way she pauses mid conversation when she hears “Take It To the House.” And by the way her intonation changes when she talks about Supa Cindy and 99 Jamz.
But it was the Liberty City native’s high school experience at Immaculata-La Salle in Coconut Grove — something she described as a “cultural shock” – that laid the groundwork for her new role in the White House.
“I was probably one of three Black people at La Salle which I think it definitely came with challenges,” the 2007 La Salle graduate said, explaining that most of her classmates were a lot more affluent than her. “I also think that it was integral part of my upbringing and led to me doing the equity work that I do now.”
An internship at the White House after she graduated from the University of Florida in 2011 ultimately ignited a thirst for public service.
“I didn’t know exactly what I was going to do next,” Loewe recalled after she moved to Washington D.C. in the early 2010s. “I just knew President Obama was in office and I was trying to figure out how to make that make sense. That was one of the few things I could do that would make my parents happy because they were obsessed with Obama.”
After a short stint in the White House and on Obama’s 2012 inaugural committee, Loewe left for the private sector. Something about public service kept calling her name and in 2017, she began working under Rep. Maxine Waters then Rep. Jim Clyburn until finally joining the Biden White House as the director of African American media. Loewe’s time with Clyburn gave her a better understanding of the importance of democracy: she and the highest-ranking Black lawmaker were hunkered down together during the January 6th insurrection.
“You often see those pictures online of staffers pushing the table against the door and that was me and my colleagues in Mr. Clyburn’s office,” she said. The experience, she recalled, was “absolutely terrifying” yet it highlighted the importance in protecting against threats to democracy. As director of African American media, she pushed for more representation of Black-led or Black-serving outlets.
“Erica has spearheaded our Black media engagement since the early days of the Biden-Harris Administration,” Anita Dunn, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor, said in a statement. “She’s smart, innovative, hardworking and has a passion that aligns with the President’s mission of ensuring everyone has a seat at the table.”
In her new role, Loewe’s purview will only expand. The office of public engagement, she describes, is essentially the “front door to the White House.” That means all outreach, official announcements and events will go through her. She will also be more involved in working more with advocacy groups and organizations than press and that front door will be open for everybody, she said
“The goal is to be helpful to and reach as many people as possible,” Loewe said. “In this role, I get to do that on behalf of the president.”
This story was originally published September 1, 2023, 12:54 PM. C. ISAIAH SMALLS II
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#BetterTogether: CBS New York partners with Big Russ Barber Shop in Harlem for back-to-school haircuts and supplies
Here at CBS New York we believe we are #BetterTogether, so we teamed up with Big Russ Barber Shop in Harlem, New York Common Pantry and Harlem Mothers and Fathers SAVE to offer back-to-school haircuts and supplies for Harlem families.
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Remains of Tuskegee pilot who vanished in WWII have been identified
Story by Michael Ruane
Remains of Tuskegee pilot who vanished in WWII have been identified© Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Travelin’ Lite was a good airplane. On scores of missions, the P-51 fighter with a skinny rabbit painted on its nose had brought its pilots home. Now, at an American air base in Italy, the Lite One, as the plane was called, was about to carry another aviator into action.
Shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 29, 1944, 2nd Lt. Fred L. Brewer Jr., 23, one of the renowned World War II African American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, climbed into the cockpit for a mission to escort bombers attacking Regensburg, Germany.
A member of the ground crew strapped him in, closed the canopy and rode on the wing as the plane taxied to the runway. Brewer gave him the okay sign with his hand. The ground man hopped down, and Brewer took off. He was never seen again.
Last month, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) said it had concluded that previously unidentified remains recovered from northern Italy after the war were those of Brewer.
He is only the second Tuskegee Airman missing from World War II to be accounted for. The first, Capt. Lawrence E. dikkson of New York, whose P-51 went down in Austria, also in 1944, was officially identified in 2018.
Twenty five still are missing, the DPAA says. The agency, which is based in Arlington, Va., seeks to account for service members missing in action from the country’s wars beginning with World War II.
Four P-51 Mustangs are seen in a practice formation over the Alps.© National Archives
The identity of Brewer’s remains was established via, among other means, recent historical research and a DNA link to a paternal cousin, the DPAA said.
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Brewer, of Charlotte, was among the more than 900 Black pilots who were trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during the war.
They were African American men from all over the country who fought racism and oppression at home and enemy pilots, bad weather and antiaircraft gunners overseas.
More than 400 served in combat, flying patrol and strafing missions, and escorting bombers from bases in North Africa and Italy. The tail sections of their fighter planes were painted a distinctive red.
Brewer, the son of a hotel bellman, had graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., where he had reportedly received an award from a prominent Black fraternity.
His 1942 draft registration card said he stood just under 6 feet tall and weighed 136 pounds.
He had a younger sister named Gladys, who was a teacher at the local segregated Second Ward High School. The family lived in Charlotte’s Brooklyn section, a largely Black neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s.
“I remember how devastating it was when they notified my family, my aunt and uncle, that he was missing,” said Robena Brewer Harrison, 84, of New York, a cousin. “It just left a void within our family. My aunt, who was his mother, Janie, she never, ever recovered from that.”
A WWII soldier was killed in France. Family never knew why until now.
She said Brewer’s mother had a stroke afterward, and was in a wheelchair. She died five years later at the age of 49, according to her death certificate.
“She died of a broken heart,” said Brenda L. Brewer, 74, of Charlotte, another cousin. “If there can be any healing in death, I hope she’s healing now.”
“He’s coming back now, and I’m happy for him, and I finally finish a mission of mine in life, to bring this pilot home,” she said.
Although she never knew the lieutenant, she said in a telephone interview that she had heard his story when she was growing up and had resolved to somehow help get him home. She said funeral arrangements have not been made but she would like to see the remains buried in Charlotte.
Brewer’s plane went down about 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 29, 1944. He and 56 other fighters had been headed on a 1,000-mile round trip mission from the American base at Ramitelli, Italy, over the Alps, to Regensburg.
But there were overcast skies. The fighters had trouble finding the B-24 bombers they were to escort.
About 340 miles into the trip, as the P-51s were climbing through cloud cover above Dellach, Austria, a fellow pilot, Lt. Charles H. Duke, saw Brewer pull up too sharply and “stall out.”
“I immediately lost sight of him in clouds,” Duke reported later, according to government records.
Brewer’s plane crashed. But it did not come down in Dellach. It crashed about 20 miles to the south, in Moggio Udinese, just across the border in Italy, a fact that would later complicate the search for the identity of his remains.
The plane Brewer flew that day had mostly been flown by another Tuskegee pilot, 1st Lt. John F. Briggs, according to Craig Huntly, a California-based Tuskegee historian.
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Huntly said in a recent telephone interview that long after the war he had befriended the plane’s ground crew chief, James C. Atchison, who told him the story of Travelin’ Lite.
The nose of the P-51 bore the name of the plane and a drawing of a thin rabbit holding a toothbrush. “And that’s just how light the bunny was traveling,” Huntly said. With “nothing but a toothbrush.”
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The plane may have been named for the 1942 song “Trav’lin’ Light” by the jazz singer Billie Holiday, he said.
Briggs had flown 70 missions in the plane and was about to return to the United States, Huntly said.
Brewer had flown it a few times. The two pilots discussed renaming it, but Brewer wanted to keep the name, because it had safely brought him home, too, Huntly related.
Huntly recalled how Atchison had described that day. “I strapped him in, buttoned up the canopy, rode his wing from the revetment out to the runway. We looked at each other. He gave me the okay sign with his fingers. I hopped off the wing and that was the last that I saw of” him.
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Brewer, of Charlotte, was among the more than 900 Black pilots who were trained at the segregated Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama during the war.
They were African American men from all over the country who fought racism and oppression at home and enemy pilots, bad weather and antiaircraft gunners overseas.
More than 400 served in combat, flying patrol and strafing missions, and escorting bombers from bases in North Africa and Italy. The tail sections of their fighter planes were painted a distinctive red.
Brewer, the son of a hotel bellman, had graduated from Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., where he had reportedly received an award from a prominent Black fraternity.
His 1942 draft registration card said he stood just under 6 feet tall and weighed 136 pounds.
He had a younger sister named Gladys, who was a teacher at the local segregated Second Ward High School. The family lived in Charlotte’s Brooklyn section, a largely Black neighborhood that was razed in the 1960s.
“I remember how devastating it was when they notified my family, my aunt and uncle, that he was missing,” said Robena Brewer Harrison, 84, of New York, a cousin. “It just left a void within our family. My aunt, who was his mother, Janie, she never, ever recovered from that.”
A WWII soldier was killed in France. Family never knew why until now.
She said Brewer’s mother had a stroke afterward, and was in a wheelchair. She died five years later at the age of 49, according to her death certificate.
“She died of a broken heart,” said Brenda L. Brewer, 74, of Charlotte, another cousin. “If there can be any healing in death, I hope she’s healing now.”
“He’s coming back now, and I’m happy for him, and I finally finish a mission of mine in life, to bring this pilot home,” she said.
Although she never knew the lieutenant, she said in a telephone interview that she had heard his story when she was growing up and had resolved to somehow help get him home. She said funeral arrangements have not been made but she would like to see the remains buried in Charlotte.
Brewer’s plane went down about 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 29, 1944. He and 56 other fighters had been headed on a 1,000-mile round trip mission from the American base at Ramitelli, Italy, over the Alps, to Regensburg.
But there were overcast skies. The fighters had trouble finding the B-24 bombers they were to escort.
About 340 miles into the trip, as the P-51s were climbing through cloud cover above Dellach, Austria, a fellow pilot, Lt. Charles H. Duke, saw Brewer pull up too sharply and “stall out.”
“I immediately lost sight of him in clouds,” Duke reported later, according to government records.
Brewer’s plane crashed. But it did not come down in Dellach. It crashed about 20 miles to the south, in Moggio Udinese, just across the border in Italy, a fact that would later complicate the search for the identity of his remains.
The plane Brewer flew that day had mostly been flown by another Tuskegee pilot, 1st Lt. John F. Briggs, according to Craig Huntly, a California-based Tuskegee historian.
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Huntly said in a recent telephone interview that long after the war he had befriended the plane’s ground crew chief, James C. Atchison, who told him the story of Travelin’ Lite.
The nose of the P-51 bore the name of the plane and a drawing of a thin rabbit holding a toothbrush. “And that’s just how light the bunny was traveling,” Huntly said. With “nothing but a toothbrush.”
Old African American cemetery yields DNA links to 41,000 new ‘relatives’
The plane may have been named for the 1942 song “Trav’lin’ Light” by the jazz singer Billie Holiday, he said.
Briggs had flown 70 missions in the plane and was about to return to the United States, Huntly said.
Brewer had flown it a few times. The two pilots discussed renaming it, but Brewer wanted to keep the name, because it had safely brought him home, too, Huntly related.
Huntly recalled how Atchison had described that day. “I strapped him in, buttoned up the canopy, rode his wing from the revetment out to the runway. We looked at each other. He gave me the okay sign with his fingers. I hopped off the wing and that was the last that I saw of” him.
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A portrait of Fred Brewer, Class of 1944.© National Archives, photo No. 18-T-44-C-1
Brewer’s single-engine plane fell about 19,000 feet. It crashed and burned in a remote area. No one lived nearby and there were no known eyewitnesses.
His body was removed from the wreckage by local Italian officials and buried in a civilian cemetery, according to military records.
In 1946 his body was moved to an American cemetery in Mirandola, Italy, about 150 miles away, the records say. A wooden grave marker was erected.
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Two years later the skeletal remains — then identified only as X-125 — were disinterred and a few months after that were moved to an American cemetery in Florence, where they arrived on March 11, 1949.
Nine months later, back in Charlotte, Brewer’s mother died.
In 2011, as the DPAA was reexamining cases of World War II airmen missing in action in Europe, an agency research analyst, Josh Frank, began studying crash sites in Italy.
“I started to go over every plane that crashed in Italy and kind of put it into a database,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “Lt. Brewer’s case was not on my radar … because his recorded loss location … was in Austria.”
But Frank started checking other reports and stumbled on a website hosted by some volunteer Italian archaeologists. The website reported that a resident of Moggio Udinese had reportedly used what appeared to be pieces of an airplane to erect a large metal crucifix there to honor fallen pilots.
“That was kind of my first hint that something had happened in Moggio Udinese,” Frank said. “What was it?”
Research revealed that a P-51 had crashed there about 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 29, 1944, and the body of an unidentified pilot had been recovered, he said.
Scouring reports of American plane losses across Europe that day, Frank found that only one single-engine aircraft had gone down at that time on that date: Brewer’s P-51.
So there was a good chance that the pilot recovered from the wreckage at Moggio Udinese was Brewer.
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But the DPAA needed a DNA sample from Brewer’s paternal family line before the remains could be examined. “It took a while,” Frank said.
Eventually, DNA was obtained from a paternal cousin. On June 21, 2022, the remains of X-125 were disinterred from the Florence American Cemetery and taken to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for analysis.
DNA obtained from the left thigh bone matched the DNA from Brewer’s male cousin.
On Aug. 10, the DPAA reported: “The laboratory analysis and totality of circumstantial evidence available establish the remains as those of Second Lieutenant Fred L. Brewer Jr.…U.S. Army Air Forces.”
“It is bittersweet,” said his cousin, Robena Brewer Harrison. “A long time coming. Did I ever think that I or Brenda … would ever actually witness this day? [It] is beyond human comprehension.”
A portrait of Fred Brewer, Class of 1944.© National Archives, photo No. 18-T-44-C-1
Brewer’s single-engine plane fell about 19,000 feet. It crashed and burned in a remote area. No one lived nearby and there were no known eyewitnesses.
His body was removed from the wreckage by local Italian officials and buried in a civilian cemetery, according to military records.
In 1946 his body was moved to an American cemetery in Mirandola, Italy, about 150 miles away, the records say. A wooden grave marker was erected.
After World War II, tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers mutinied — and won
Two years later the skeletal remains — then identified only as X-125 — were disinterred and a few months after that were moved to an American cemetery in Florence, where they arrived on March 11, 1949.
Nine months later, back in Charlotte, Brewer’s mother died.
In 2011, as the DPAA was reexamining cases of World War II airmen missing in action in Europe, an agency research analyst, Josh Frank, began studying crash sites in Italy.
“I started to go over every plane that crashed in Italy and kind of put it into a database,” he said in a recent telephone interview. “Lt. Brewer’s case was not on my radar … because his recorded loss location … was in Austria.”
But Frank started checking other reports and stumbled on a website hosted by some volunteer Italian archaeologists. The website reported that a resident of Moggio Udinese had reportedly used what appeared to be pieces of an airplane to erect a large metal crucifix there to honor fallen pilots.
“That was kind of my first hint that something had happened in Moggio Udinese,” Frank said. “What was it?”
Research revealed that a P-51 had crashed there about 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 29, 1944, and the body of an unidentified pilot had been recovered, he said.
Scouring reports of American plane losses across Europe that day, Frank found that only one single-engine aircraft had gone down at that time on that date: Brewer’s P-51.
So there was a good chance that the pilot recovered from the wreckage at Moggio Udinese was Brewer.
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But the DPAA needed a DNA sample from Brewer’s paternal family line before the remains could be examined. “It took a while,” Frank said.
Eventually, DNA was obtained from a paternal cousin. On June 21, 2022, the remains of X-125 were disinterred from the Florence American Cemetery and taken to the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska for analysis.
DNA obtained from the left thigh bone matched the DNA from Brewer’s male cousin.
On Aug. 10, the DPAA reported: “The laboratory analysis and totality of circumstantial evidence available establish the remains as those of Second Lieutenant Fred L. Brewer Jr.…U.S. Army Air Forces.”
“It is bittersweet,” said his cousin, Robena Brewer Harrison. “A long time coming. Did I ever think that I or Brenda … would ever actually witness this day? [It] is beyond human comprehension.”
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Nigerian govt rebuilds high school destroyed by earthquake in Haiti
As part of efforts to strengthen existing bilateral relations between Nigeria and Haiti, the federal government has completed the construction of Benoit Batraville High School located in Saut-D’eau, Haiti. The project was Nigeria’s response to calls for assistance from Haiti following the 7.3...
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Warrick Dunn is still at it. I remember when he began this program when he was in the NFL.
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Philanthropic Partners announce $50 Million in new campaign to support Haiti
Sept 19, 2023Haitian American actress and humanitarian Garcelle Beauvais is partnering with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation as part of the Pockets of Hope campaign, which aims to generate $90 million for education, health and economic development initiatives in Haiti over the next three years.
New York, NY — Today the W.K. Kellogg Foundation announced a $30 million, three-year Commitment to Action to invest in local efforts to advance opportunities for Haitian children, families and communities. Several other funders – including the Digicel Foundation, Dunn Family Charitable Foundation, and Porticus – also made commitments totaling another $20 million collectively. The commitments are part of Pockets of Hope, a new $90 million campaign created by the Kellogg Foundation and partners to catalyze philanthropic support for community-led education, health, economic security and other game-changing initiatives in Haiti.
There has been a significant decline in philanthropic support for Haiti in recent years at a time when the need has dramatically increased. Pockets of Hope encourages partners across the philanthropic sector and beyond to make a collective commitment to support local communities and organizations working to chart a new course for the future of their country. The Kellogg Foundation will help to convene funders, non-profit organizations, members of Haiti’s diaspora, and other supporters of Haiti who are united by the goal of increasing investments for Haitian-designed and Haitian-led work that has the potential to transform entire communities.
Today’s announcement reflects the need for long-term partnership, solidarity and investments for populations impacted by devastating natural and man-made disasters, as well as to ongoing systemic barriers to equitable progress. This is especially relevant as children and families in Morocco, Maui, Libya and other regions of the world continue to suffer the effects of natural disasters and begin to assess what it will take to rebuild their communities and create sustainable, resident-driven solutions to ongoing systemic challenges.
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Megan Thee Stallion teams up with Flamin' Hot for TSU scholarship and on-campus events
Sept 20, 2023
Megan Thee Stallion, rap superstar and Texas Southern University graduate, is going back to school. Flamin' Hot University, to be exact.
The Houston native has teamed up with the Flamin' Hot brand of snacks for virtual courses on food, fashion and lifestyle. They include Flamin' Hot-infused recipes and motivational tips.
The collaboration also includes a line of six Megan-inspired items from streetwear designer Melody Ehsani, including a Stallion varsity jacket ($200), tennis skirt ($62) and more.
Proceeds from the collection will go toward establishing a $150,000 scholarship fund to help graduating TSU students with loan debt. Flamin' Hot will also make a $100,00 contribution to the Pete and Thomas Foundation. Megan launched the nonprofit last year with a focus on three core areas in Houston and beyond: education, through scholarships, school supplies and resources to students in high-need communities; housing for senior citizens, single mothers and families impacted by financial emergencies and natural disasters; health and wellness through cancer care, mental health and food insecurity.
Flamin' Hot will also be on the TSU campus through homecoming season with giveaways, snacks and information on alleviating student debt.
"I'm extremely proud that we were able to uplift TSU students, establish an impactful scholarship fund, support the Pete and Thomas Foundation and promote the importance of education," Megan said in a statement.
Flamin' Hot has also released a limited pair of Megan-branded Cheetos and Doritos, available online for $5.99 a bag
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