Category: Black Education

By Erica L. Green Vice President Kamala Harris harnessed the star power of one of her most powerful surrogates — and one of America’s foremost interviewers — to lay out a powerful pitch for her campaign on Thursday, as she passionately confronted pressing issues during a livestream forum with Oprah Winfrey. The event, “Unite for America,” was hosted by Ms. Winfrey and drew hundreds of thousands of viewers, bolstering a strategy that Ms. Harris’s campaign sees as crucial to reaching voters in battleground states and beyond in November. The event brought together members of over 100 online groups that have The post Harris Hits Core Campaign Themes in Emotional Forum With Oprah Winfrey appeared first on HBCU News.

By Ariyana Griffin Meharry Medical College is collaborating with local middle and high schools to provide workshops, summits and events for students to engage in science. The Tennessee-based HBCU was founded in 1876 by Samuel Meharry along with four of his brothers. The institution now serves as the nation’s largest private, independent, historically Black academic health training center. Understanding the importance of stimulating and inspiring young minds, the college has created several programs to give K-12 students the opportunity to have hands-on experiences with science. “We go and speak to students at every age level and our students love to The post Meharry Medical College partners with local middle and high schools for hands-on science experience appeared first on HBCU News.

By Cedric Mobley Howard University graduate and Board of Trustees Vice Chair Mark Mason (BBA ’91) interviewed multiple times for a position at Goldman Sachs, finally landing a position as an analyst. He left Wall Street to attend Harvard Business School, by then realizing that Howard had prepared him to compete with “anyone and everyone.” Now the chief financial officer at Citi, Mason is sure that his Howard experience has paid dividends for him as he deals with the challenges of global business from his executive suite. With more than 100 million customers, Citi manages $5 trillion in financial flows The post Citi CFO and Howard University alumnus Mark Mason shared four lessons anyone can use to live a life of consequence appeared first on HBCU News.

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