scholarships
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Scholly App Founder Addresses The Student Debt & College Affordability Crisis | The 411: Part 1
Christopher Gray’s scholarship app has helped thousands of students find money for college at a time when college costs and student debt are on the rise.
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Young Black Gamers Get a Pathway Into the Industry Through the ESA Foundation
Despite Anime Avatar Twitter’s claims to the contrary, gaming has one of the most diverse fanbases of any medium. A study by Pew research found that Black teens play more video games than their white peers, at 83 percent and 71 percent respectively. Despite making up a large portion of the player base, more often…
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From 'Fifty' to 'Milly': Virgil Abloh Announces $1 Million Scholarship Fund for Black Creatives
Virgil Abloh heard y’all callin’ him “Fifty”—and he’s not having it. The groundbreaking yet increasingly controversial artistic director of Off-White and Louis Vuitton Menswear is seemingly willing to put his money where his (sometimes misspoken) mouth is, announcing a new $1 million scholarship fund “for students of academic promise of Black, African-American, or of African…
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Fashioning the Future: Gucci Celebrates Its 1st Class of Changemaker Scholars
If the past few weeks have taught us anything, it’s the difference between promises and platitudes, and actions and accountability. Words of support are empty without effort and quantifiable results, and while multitudes of people are becoming more comfortable with phrases like “Black Lives Matter” all we’ve ever been asking is that they act like…
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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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Homeless Student Awarded $3 Million in Scholarships, Named Valedictorian
For most high school students, their senior year is riddled with challenges. But outside of the demands of homework and having hormones on the fritz, 17-year-old Tupac Mosley of Memphis, Tenn., faces a particular challenge unlike anyone else in his graduating class: he’s homeless. Mosley refused to use his circumstances as an excuse not to…
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New Balenciaga Scholarship Gives Free Tuition to Black and Latinx Students at Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute in New York City is world famous for its programs in architecture, art and design. Now Demna Gvasalia, creative director of Balenciaga, is helping students of color afford tuition. Tuesday night at Pratt’s annual Celebration of the Creative Spirit scholarship benefit, Gvasalia received the Creative Spirit Award. According to Highsnobiety, Gvasalia was unable…
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Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ezekiel Elliott to Pay for Funeral of 14-Year-Old Football Star
Anyone that watched 8th-grader Jaylon McKenzie play football would tell you he was going to be a star. He dashed between defenders with ease. He ran for touchdowns like a gazelle on the open plains. Despite only being in the 8th grade, he was already receiving scholarships from major colleges. Last weekend, all of Jaylon’s…
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Hennessy and The Thurgood Marshall College Fund Team Up for $10 Million HBCU Scholarship Initiative [Corrected]
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Hennessy have announced a joint $10 million HBCU scholarship initiative, according to Black Enterprise. The goal of the Hennessy Fellows Program is to encourage and support the next generation of black excellence through mentoring, financial assistance, networking and opportunity creation. It is hoped that by offering 10 fellowships…
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If You Have Student Loans, Grown-Ish and Scholly Are Trying to Make It Rain on Your Loan Provider (for You)
If you’re like me, and presumably millions of other folks across Los Estados Unidos, student loan debt is a monkey on your back. I personally know people whose student loan burden ranges from $4,000 to as high as $200,000. Whether you’re on the low end or the probably-need-to-stay-high-to-manage-it high end, no sentence is more exciting…