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The Shawn Carter Foundation Scholarship provides financial support to high school students as well as undergraduate students entering college for the first time. The purpose…...

Cities beyond Silicon Valley are becoming burgeoning tech hubs. There are growing markets from the Midwest to below the Mason-Dixon Line in terms of deal flow and venture dollars.New York may have Silicon Alley but the nation’s capital has Silicon Hill, and Howard University is staking its claim in the latest hotbed for emerging...

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship NFTE the international nonprofit that equips under served youth with the entrepreneurial mindset and skills to succeed today announced a ........

Four former Black College presidents announced today the launch of TM2 Education Search, which provides retained search and leadership development services targeting Historically Black Colleges & Universities and......

Miami will be the first city outside of New Orleans to have a bricks and mortar office for PowerMoves, a national initiative to increase the number of Blacks, who own high-tech, venture-capital backed companies. PowerMoves will bring its pitch competition, boot camps, networking events and fellowships, as well as provide space for entrepreneurs to...

Bunker Hill Community College celebrated Black History Month with Dark Matter: An Afternoon of Science and Stories with GZA a.k.a. "The Genius," founding member of Wu-Tang Clan, hip hop artist and science educator. GZA is co-founder of......

DURHAM, N.C., Feb. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- In February 2016, The Institute received a grant for $35,000 from Duke Energy to support its HBCU Leadership Workforce Development Exchange program. Housed within The Institute's Policy Center, the HBCU Leadership Exchange focuses on building......

This famous investor got his start sweeping up in a Queens bodega after school. Now, he's a best-selling author....

The Jackie Robinson Foundation (JRF) chairman, Gregg Gonsalves, and president and CEO, Della Britton Baeza, announced today that Earvin "Magic" Johnson has been elected to the Foundation's board of directors.  Mr.......

Prospective and current students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) in search of financial aid may want to take a look at the new scholarship opportunities from The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF)....