bennett college
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'HBCU Caravan' Offers On-the-Spot Admissions, Scholarships to Hundreds of Southern California High Schoolers
For students across the country, it’s the most anxiety-inducing time of the year: college admissions season. But in Lynwood Unified School District in Southern California, an “HBCU caravan” recently gifted students at two high schools with instant acceptance letters and affirmations. In total, two dozen historically black colleges and universities offered 381 students “on-the-spot admissions”…
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Bennett College President Gives Heartwarming Thanks After Donors Give $8.2 Million to Save School
After facing financial issues that threatened its status as an accredited school, Bennett College may be saved following a strong social media push for its fundraising campaign. A Monday tweet from the North Carolina school’s official account confirmed that they had raised $8.2 million, far surpassing the $5 million fundraising goal. The #StandWithBennett campaign got…
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Papa John's Proves All Money Ain't Good Money with $500k Donation to HBCU Bennett College
Crisis management is big business. Ask those junior varsity MAGA bigots, or Kevin Hart, or H&M, or Shonda Rhimes, who transformed that exact premise into the award-winning television series “Scandal”. So it comes as no surprise that after its founder and figurehead John Schnatter got eviscerated for blaming the NFL protests for his company’s diminishing…
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I #StandWithBennett. Hopefully, It’s for the Long Haul
Attending an HBCU tends to unlock one’s awareness about the other hundred or so HBCUs that you’re not attending. Some of us get to school and know the big name ones, but our football and basketball schedules put schools like Benedict College, Paine College, Lane College and Lemoyne-Owen College (to name a few) on the…
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Johnnetta B. Cole Is a Force of Nature
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, turned 80 years old Wednesday, and the stunning educator, humanitarian, anthropologist and mentor to many says it’s wonderful to turn what she calls “40 years old times two.” “I’m so conscious of what I would call a disconnect between the very words ‘80 years…
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To My Dearest Bennett College Belles
Over the past week, some simmering tensions have reached a fever pitch, ignited by an article written by an alumna of Bennett College, Aziza Jackson, calling for the end of the brother-sister relationship between Morehouse College and Bennett College because Morehouse sucks. While Ms. Jackson takes out most of her frustrations on her fellow “brothers”…