Bank of America Awards Los Angeles Trade Tech $1 Million for Jobs Initiative
By Sentinel News Service
Published February 4, 2021
$25 Million National Program Supports Programming, Re-skilling and Upskilling for Students of Color; Includes Partnerships with Major Employers and The Aspen Institute.
Los Angeles Trade Tech and Bank of America today announced a new $1 million jobs initiative partnership to help students of color successfully complete the education and training necessary to enter the workforce and embark on a path to success in Southern California. The bank is also investing $1 million into Riverside City College as part of this initiative, which builds on Bank of America’s ongoing work in the region to address the underlying issues facing individuals and communities of color who have been disproportionately impacted by the current health crisis.
By Miriam Kleiman | National Archives News
WASHINGTON, February 3, 2021 â The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), is offering a new grant program aimed at expanding cultural diversity in American history.
A recent NHPRC grant supported the CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project, which will emphasize World War II internment and postwar records. (Photo courtesy of California State University)
A $2.35 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a new program, Start-Up Grants for Collaborative Digital Editions in African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American History, that will vastly expand the number and scope of digital historical records projects and provide greater online access to a wider range of minority voices. Hailed by the American Historical Association as its âGrant of the Week,â this new initiative is the largest grant in the decades-long pa
Derrais Carter TUCSON, Ariz. The blaxploitation movies of early 1970s Hollywood occupy a unique space in film history by being, to many, as problematic as they are influential.
Derrais Carter, a University of Arizona researcher who studies and writes about Black culture, said films such as “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” “Shaft” and “Superfly” were marketable films for Hollywood but fueled negative depictions of Black people. In the films, Black men were often depicted as “pimps, drug dealers and hustlers,” Black women were hyper-sexualized, and Black children were “often represented as ‘streetwise,’ which prematurely ages them out of innocence,” Carter said.
Texas State will receive a $843,895 federal grant for the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program in support of minorities and to examine the effects of community cultural wealth on
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Google today announced the expansion of the Grow with Google HBCU Career Readiness Program into sixteen new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including North Carolina Central University and Saint Augustine’s University in North Carolina. Through a $1 million investment in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the program provides digital skills workshops in HBCU career centers to help Black students prepare for the workforce. Announced in October, the initiative’s goal is to reach 20,000 students during the current school year. Today’s announcement brings the number of participating schools to twenty. The program will be available to all HBCUs by fall 2021.