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Ken Grant We once again find ourselves on the first Monday of the month and so I bring you the latest in a series highlighting mentors. The first two looked at
L’Oréal USA has announced the second edition of its Inclusive Beauty Fund, which provides financial support to beauty businesses owned by people of colour. The beauty giant will give one-time grants to 40 entrepreneurs in the country who are “facing economic hurdles and headwinds” as a way to help “scale their businesses”. […]
Eagle Pass, Texas — Texas’ attorney general on Friday forcefully rejected a request from the Biden administration to grant federal immigration officials full access to a park along the southern border that the state National Guard has sealed off with razor wire, fencing and soldiers. For three weeks, the federal government and Texas
Photo Submitted Ani-ya Beasley Ani-ya Beasley, a senior majoring in African and African American studies and history, has been awarded a Curtis H. Sykes Memorial Grant of $4,000 from the Black History Commission of Arkansas. Beasley competed alongside professional researchers and large community organizations to win this grant, her first, […]
The Archivist of the United States awarded the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff funding to continue preservation of the history of the Black population of Lake Forest, Illinois, with Associate Professor of History and African American Studies Courtney Joseph and Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies RL Watson serving as faculty consultants. […]
The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds on the previous success of a […]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) announced today it has been awarded a three-year grant with up to $500,000 in funding per year from the Office of Minority Health (OMH) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to increase participation in lupus clinical trials. The grant builds […]
A team of UMass Amherst faculty, librarians, staff, and students and their partners at the Pioneer Valley History Network (PVHN) are among the partnering projects awarded $349,803 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of the project “Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade,” also known as Enslaved.org, which is an open-access […]
Recipients of the City of Victoria’s annual International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) Youth Grant program have been selected for 2023. This year, five projects that support and empower Black youth in Victoria have been awarded funding. “The return of this grant program is an important step towards making Victoria a more welcoming […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some Charlotte area companies are getting a big boost thanks to a new program designed to give minority-owned businesses in the energy sector a leg up. One of these businesses is something that might have you asking, “Why didn’t we come up with that sooner?” Desmond Wiggan had his a-ha moment for […]