Education
Education
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Five-Star Recruit Makur Maker Commits to Howard, 'Makes the HBCU Movement Real'
Real estate is cool, but if you want to make some real paper, you might want to look into college sportsâprovided youâre not a Black student-athlete. As Iâve reported here at The Root, the NCAA is big business for everybody but Black players, generating over a billion dollars in annual revenueâmost of which comes from…
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Georgia History Teacher Suspended for Teaching History
Authorities in a rural Georgia school district are punishing a history instructor who seemingly dedicated all of his spare time to teaching students. The district banned the beloved educator from coaching after administrators charged the man with a heinous rule violationâthe history teacher was teaching history. Jordan Huerta has been teaching history at Tattnall County…
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Netflix CEO Donating $120 Million to HBCUs and the United Negro College Fund
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin will donate an allotted total of $120 million to HBCUs and black scholarship funds. Spelman College, Morehouse College and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will each receive $40 million. âThere are many good places to donate, but the [historically Black colleges and universities] are 150…
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The Obamas, Beyoncé and More Deliver Heartfelt Speeches For YouTube's Virtual Commencement Ceremony
YouTubeâs live-streamed commencement ceremony to celebrate the members of the graduating class of 2020 nationwide was held on Sunday. âDear Class of 2020â was initially going to stream on Saturday, however, it was pushed back a day out of respect for George Floydâs memorial service. The four-hour event, which was filmed over the course of…
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Private Equity Investor Frank Baker Pays Off Tuition Debt for 2020 Spelman College Graduates
Frank Baker, an African-American investor who heads the billion-dollar private equity firm Siris, has paid off the remaining tuition balances for the 2020 class of graduates at Spelman College and established a $1 million scholarship to help future graduates of the all-woman HBCU. The businessman covered the debt for nearly 50 students graduating from Spelman…
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Quavo Walked It Like He Talked It Across the Class of 2020 Virtual Stage and Is Now a High School Graduate
Quavo is officially a 2020 high school graduate, yâall. While he was busy âin the kitchen, wrist-twistinâ like a stir fry,â the Migos member was also completing an important goal: graduating high school. According to Vulture, the 29-year-old graduated from Berkmar High School in Linburn, Ga. Quavo hopped on Instagram on Thursday to share the…
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Barack Obama Surprises 3 Chicago Educators With Video Call for Teacher Appreciation Week
Where would we be as a society without our educators? Teachers have a difficult and extremely important job for which they donât receive nearly enough praise. Former President Barack Obama did his part in rectifying that by making surprise video calls to three Chicago Public School teachers during National Teacher Appreciation Week. âThereâs no limit…
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Barack and Michelle Obama to Give Commencement Addresses During YouTube's Graduation Ceremony
Barack and Michelle Obama are set to give separate commencement addresses during YouTubeâs live-streamed graduation ceremony, which is slated to be held on June 6 on the video platformâs Originals channel and their Learn@Home site. Per Variety, the former first couple will take part in the âDear Class of 2020â block of programming, which features…
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Rapsody's EVE Has Inspired Courses at Two Universities
Rapsodyâs EVE is considered by some people to be the best hip-hop album of 2019 bar none (itâs me…Iâm âsome peopleâ) and now, it has inspired courses at two universities. Doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tyler Bunzey announced via Instagram on Tuesday that the NC rapperâs third studio album,…
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My Nephew Wanted to Go to Morehouse College. He's Going to the University of Alabama. We Just Lost One, One.
Back in October 2019âin a version of the world that is very different from the version we live in nowâmy nephew, along with probably a hundred other prospective students, visited the campus of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, Ga., during our annual homecoming weekend. On the Friday of that week, my nephew sat in on various…