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Howard University recently announced the legendary Alumna Phylicia Rashad as Dean of the new, reestablished College of Fine Arts. The entire DC metropolitan area is elated to have Dean Phylicia Rashad apart of the area and the program. Way to go Howard University!
HBCUs have recently won a case granting schools like Morgan State University, Coppin State University and Bowie State University money from a years long law suite that showed these schools lack funds given to create sufficient programs for students to receive a competitive education compared to white schools.
Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D., and was appointed by Mayor Bowser as the D.C Arts and Humanities
Commissioner. She previously shared on her personal Instagram page her gratitude for the new position and explained how her cultural dynamics have grown her to appreciate the Arts as a whole.
Black entrepreneurship on the rise Bowie State University recently started hosting Black Innovator talks sponsored by Echoing Green, a panel discussion of Echoing Greens Black Male Achievement fellowship program members from a diaspora of fields like media, funding, tech, social and business. The theme of the discussions ranged from developing new ways to find connections across sectors and disciplines to support black entrepreneurs,” according to Damia Chambers, journalist of Bowie State University.
