by Brandy Thomas Wells, Oklahoma State University
Nutrition is among the most critical issues of our time. Diet-related illnesses are shortening life spans and the...
These grants are designed to build capacity and enhance the competitiveness of faculty at MSIs when applying for nationally competitive grant support and aid...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
@StacyBrownMedia
The Senate on Friday, December 11, passed the HBCU Propelling Agency Relationships Towards a New Era...
The Tom Joyner Foundation® announced the ‘Full Ride’ scholarship program that will cover all the expenses of one student planning to attend a historically...
Principal Aaronthomas (cq) Green posed the following question to his school of 300-plus 5th to 8th graders at his all-boys school in northeast Houston...
UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, announced today a $1.12 million grant from The Kresge Foundation, a...
Tatyana Ali, Toyota’s Jim Colon, and the Toyota Green Initiative Prius At this year’s Magic City Classic in Birmingham, Alabama, Toyota announced plans to donate 22 Prius cars to select HBCUs in the Southwestern Atlantic and CIAA conferences. School administrators will be granted one-year leases to the vehicles as part of the Toyota Green Initiative (TGI) program which aims to help students at historically black colleges and universities to live more sustainably. At a press conference held at Alabama Power, Toyota VP of Product Communications Jim Colon told NewsOne that Toyota developed the TGI campaign after realizing that, despite the Prius’ 50-miles-per-gallon track record, the hybrid hadn’t quite resonated with people of color. “It’s stimulating a dialogue in African-American communities that ‘we’re part of this too,’” Colon said. “It’s just not isolated to one group. We have the thinking; we have the background; we have the intelligence that everybody else has, and we’re going to use ...
