Good News

The United Negro College Fund has teamed up with Cengage to provide 1,000 HBCU students with free access to textbooks.

Music visionary Missy Elliott will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Idris Elba will star in a movie about Philadelphia’s Black cowboys.

Kalisa Villafana recently became the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at Florida State University.

A new Chicago-based nonprofit is aiming to combat diabetes within the Black community.

Bowie State University is launching a center that will focus on empowering and supporting Black male teachers and students.

Morehouse College has launched a new fund to help alumni tackle their student loan debt.

Jay-Z and Will Smith will produce a television series that captures the civil rights movement through the lens of Black women.

Rapper Common is investing in the transformation of an underdeveloped property located in Chicago’s South Side area.

Philadelphia unveiled its first statue of a Black girl inspired by 1930s athlete Ora Washington.

Amber Johnson recently became the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in computer science at Purdue University.

Former BET CEO Debra Lee has been appointed to join AT&T’s board of directors.