With a long-awaited return for the North American International Detroit Auto Show to be live, this past Saturday, the InsideOut Literary Arts Performance Troupe...
The Rainbow PUSH Automotive Project, an initiative of the Citizenship Education Fund, will hold its 16th Annual Rainbow PUSH Global Automotive Summit Friday, October...
In 1965, thousands marched from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama on a journey for justice. All across the South, college students participated in the 54-mile...
Who’s Who Publishing, powered by Real Times Media, celebrated the unveiling of DRIVEN: A Tribute to Multicultural Achievement in the Automotive Industry on January...
The Rainbow PUSH Automotive Project, an initiative of the Citizenship Education Fund, proudly announces its lineup of speakers for the 15th Annual Rainbow PUSH...
“OPRAH’S THE LIFE YOU WANT WEEKEND” HONORS LOCAL ATLANTA WOMEN WITH THE TOYOTA “STANDING O-VATION” AWARD
Black Girls RUN! Founders Ashley Hicks and Toni Carey...
Toyota is committed to recognizing and empowering individuals making bold choices both personally and in their communities. Alva P. Adams-Mason, the national manager for…
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 ...
