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CHICAGO, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Conagra Brands (NYSE: CAG) announced today new partnerships with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the nation s largest organization exclusively representing the Black college community, and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), one of the nation s leading nonprofit organizations supporting higher education, to support Black and Brown students. The partnerships will help ensure students receive equitable access to quality higher education opportunities and reinforce Conagra s commitment to supporting the communities where its employees live and work.
Conagra will make donations to each organization to fund several college scholarships. Additional resources will be provided to each institution to support scholarship recipients as they navigate internships and other services that prepare them for their future careers. Conagra employees will also actively engage with scholarship recipients to provi
Five ways George Floyd really changed the world
“My daddy changed the world,” Floyd’s 7-year old daughter, Gianna, would say during his passing. “Daddy changed the world.” George Floyd was killed this past spring while in the custody of police. (Credit: Getty Images)
It’s been one year since the world lost the beloved Black father to police injustice. He might be gone, but his impact on social justice endures.
May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of
George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The viral video footage shook a world that was already suffering from a deadly pandemic and became fed up with the societal injustices that continued to afflict. Floyd’s death reawakened a racial uprising that America hadn’t seen in decades ushering in a new wave of activism and reminder that Black lives indeed do matter.
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Southern University is not the only HBCU doing such outreach. The United Negro College Fund, an organization representing 37 private historically Black colleges and universities, recently launched a new initiative to bring 4,000 students back to HBCUs across the country to earn their degrees, aided by one-on-one coaching. The move mirrors other efforts by historically Black institutions to reclaim students who left, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected Black Americans at disproportionate rates in terms of infections and deaths, and led to job losses and other negative financial outcomes for low-income students and their families.
More than five million Black Americans aged 25 and older have some college but no degree, according to Census Bureau data released in 2020.