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Events Prairie View A&M Men, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Women Capture the 34th PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship Titles Published on for final results from the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship. Prairie View A&M University golf coach Kevin Jennings has an expansive history with what is now the PGA WORKS Collegiate Championship. He played in the event when it was the National Minority College Championship while he still was a high school student, competed as a college player and coached Talladeg...

On Wednesday, April 28, on his 99 th day in office, President Biden gave his first joint address to Congress. In addition to recounting the policy successes of his first three months in office, President Biden used his bully pulpit to introduce and call for the passage of the American Families Plan. The American Families Plan is a $1.8 trillion package that will reshape multiple elements of the economy. In combination with the $2 trillion American Jobs Plan introduced a few weeks ago, President...

D.C. student, 16, to attend FAMU after being accepted to 14 colleges "I started looking specifically at HBCUs because I wanted the HBCU experience...," 16-year-old Curtis Lawrence III told DCs FOX 5 News. D.C. resident Curtis Lawrence III is a prime example of what starting excellence early looks like. When he was just 14, Lawrence graduated from DC’s School Without Walls, a magnet high school, and started taking college classes through a special program at George Washington University. N...

His plan is the second component of a two-part, multi-trillion-dollar initiative to rebuild the economy. President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday that outlined his ambitious legislative proposals, including a $1.8 trillion American Families Plan that would provide millions of Americans with free preschool instruction and free community college. The proposal invests $200 billion to make preschool instruction free for all three- and four-year-old...

It’s important to note that Biden’s American Families Plan omits student loan forgiveness for current borrowers, a major idea that the president campaigned on as he pursued the White House.

CBPP today released a statement from Sharon Parrott, President, on President Biden’s recovery agenda: President Biden’s recovery proposals — including both the American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan — constitute a ground-breaking agenda to move us toward an equitable economy and address problems that have plagued our nation for decades. Our nation faces significant challenges. We underinvest in our infrastructure and our children; we have high levels of poverty and inequality and...

The “aging infrastructure” of the 109-year-old institution and years of “deferred maintenance” have made for this and other decidedly not 21st-century conditions on campus.​ The university cant afford to pay for upkeep, much less advance its technological capabilities. It has been historically underfunded by the state of Tennessee and shortchanged hundreds of millions of dollars it was owed for at least 50 years. “I can’t overstress the dramatic effect [the underfunding has] had o...

Last year was an extraordinary moment for many historically Black colleges and universities. HBCUs shared the national spotlight with Vice President Kamala Harris, a Howard University alumna. And as the country grappled with a new racial reckoning in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, some of those schools received high-profile donations. Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $160 million to HBCUs and Black college organizations across the country in July 2020. She followed that in December...

“Faith is taking the first step even when we can’t see the staircase,” says the Rev. Bernard Keels, dean of University Memorial Chapel at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. “The staircase is quite evident now,” he says with pride. “People are climbing.” I have asked Keels to tell me the story of Morgan State. Like many of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Morgan State has deep roots in the Christian faith. Within a year of Abraham Li...

ADVERTISEMENT A report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that minority-owned small businesses were especially hard-hit by the economic effects of the pandemic, as were entrepreneurs over the age of 45 who lost their businesses in 2020. This included 19 percent of Asian-owned businesses, 16 percent of Black-owned businesses and 11 percent of Hispanic-owned businesses. “Small businesses are critical to the success of our communities in North Carolina and across the nation, and we mu...