IBM hopes to build students skills in quantum computing while increasing diversity and inclusion in the workforce. Author: Devin Johnson Updated: 7:33 PM EST February 24, 2021
ORANGEBURG, S.C. The IBM-HBCU Quantum Center is a multi-year investment of resources to develop HBCU students at HBCU across the nation to create a more diverse quantum-ready workforce. These courses that IBM has made available to us allow SC State to enhance all of the offerings we already had, said South Carolina State University President James E. Clark.
For SC State University Students like Ramon Lavender, the partnership gives him access to IBM quantum computers on the cloud and more career opportunities.
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CAU Now on WCLK. This month Jolene is joined by Chasity Evans, Program Manager for Clark Atlanta University Alumni Relations. They ll have a conversation about the important role played by Alumni at HBCUs and ways Clark College, Atlanta University, and Clark Atlanta University Alumni can step up and help today s students. They ll also discuss the new
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Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines, the 44-year-old pastor at New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon, has died Author: Thais Ackerman (13WMAZ) Updated: 11:05 AM EST February 25, 2021
MACON, Ga. The Macon community has lost an activist and a church is without its pastor after his death Wednesday.
Rev. Bryant Wardell Raines was the pastor at New Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Macon.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says Raines died at a hospital in Gainesville, Florida, on Wednesday. As many families and lives have been affected by COVID-19, so too have ours, the post said.
According to New Pilgrim s website, Raines was a 1995 graduate of Central High School and 1999 graduate of Clark Atlanta University.
Editor s Note: As part of its commitment to cover the intersection of race and business, The Dispatch will feature one Black-owned business a week throughout February. That s in addition to continued examination of the barriers faced by Black business owners.
Gayle Troy paid for her daughter’s college tuition with sweet potato muffins.
For years, Troy and her husband, Eric, would get up early in the morning and drop off her homemade treats at coffeehouses before going to their jobs.
Now, customers are coming to her.
Troy’s restaurant, What the Waffle, opened a brick-and-mortar operation on Long Street in the King-Lincoln neighborhood in the summer of 2020. Even amid the pandemic, customers flocked to the establishment to get their fill of Troy’s muffins, along with the featured menu item: buttermilk Belgian waffles.
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