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California College Corps Offering Students More Than $10,000 Stipends
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California College Corps Offering Students More Than $10,000 Stipends

Edward Henderson, California Black MediaMarch 23, 2023

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state’s #CaliforniansForAll College Corps program which has so far provided $10,000 grants to some 6,500 low-income college students as a stipend in exchange for their community service work. Nearly a year after the paid-service program was announced, the Governor’s office is hailing its impact on communities and the lives of the students who participate in it.

Major Prostate Cancer Research Targeting African Americans Set to Begin
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Major Prostate Cancer Research Targeting African Americans Set to Begin

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire CorrespondentMarch 21, 2019

a national network of prostate cancer researchers and experts who have joined forces to study prostate cancer in African American men has received a $26 million grant as part of former Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative to conduct the largest study ever to look at the underlying factors and reasons that put African American men at higher risk for developing and dying from prostate cancer.