HBCU
Watch The Yard Surprises Hampton University’s Aviation Students with Pilot Flight Simulation Training
Blavity News
Watch The Yard Surprises Hampton University’s Aviation Students with Pilot Flight Simulation Training. “This training is required for students to graduate, so we thought we would make life easier on Hampton’s future pilots by covering the cost,” Ciara White-Sparks said.
Maryland teen awarded full scholarship to Hampton after tragic death of parents
Yahoo News
Kyle Jr. recently received a full scholarship to Hampton University. (Facebook/Charlie Savage). This tale began with a car crash that killed Kyle Savage, Sr. and his wife, Charlene Savage.
VOTING
In Georgia, 2 Black candidates to compete for Senate seat
YourValley.net
In this Deep South state where the painful history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice is ever-present, voters for the first time have selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a Senate race.
How Tim Scott rose from poverty to become our only Black GOP senator
New York Post
Despite having risen to become the most prominent elected black Republican in the country, Tim Scott has never forgotten where he came from. After his parents separated when he was a child, he grew up sharing a single bedroom with his mother and older brother in North Charleston.
BLK BIZ
This Entrepreneur Built a Platform for Diverse Workers’ Honest Reviews
Business Insider
By the time Ekow Sanni-Thomas left the corporate world after 11 years in real estate, he had seen firsthand how easy it is for companies to turn their backs on Black employees despite claiming to promote diversity and inclusion.
Black entrepreneurship can be lonely; LinkedIn is trying to help
TheGrio
Professional networking platform, LinkedIn is also working to foster Black entrepreneurship as a source of support and resources.
Counting on change
Virginia Business
Increasing diversity in accounting is a goal of groups like the Virginia Society of CPAs, a professional organization with 13,000 members that advocates on behalf of the profession in the commonwealth, as well as NABA, a nonprofit organization that represents more than 200,000 Black professionals within the field.
