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Harrison Barnes, Jaylen Brown, George Hill, Chris Paul And Dwight Powell Named Recipients of 2019-20 End-Of-Season NBA Cares Community Assist Award Presented by Kaiser Permanente
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Harrison Barnes, Jaylen Brown, George Hill, Chris Paul And Dwight Powell Named Recipients of 2019-20 End-Of-Season NBA Cares Community Assist Award Presented by Kaiser Permanente

Sentinel News ServiceOctober 5, 2020

Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes, Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown, Milwaukee Bucks guard George Hill, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Chris Paul and Dallas Mavericks forward-center Dwight Powell have received the 2019-20 End-of-Season NBA Cares Community Assist Award presented by Kaiser Permanente in recognition of their continued commitment to positively impacting their
communities through sustained efforts over the course of the season,

Bloomberg Philanthropies Strives to Increase Black Physicians by Donating to Historically Black Medical Schools
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Strives to Increase Black Physicians by Donating to Historically Black Medical Schools

Betti Halsell, Contributing WriterSeptember 10, 2020

Inequality in education is one of the most fossilized civil rights issues that one can still witness today. There is a lot of discourse and imbalance found in the unequal funding and lack of federal or state priority within community-driven colleges of color. Recently, there has been meteoric change in social awareness, which is bringing more light to the current state of the educational system for people within the Black Community.

Black-ish Star Marsai Martin to be Honored by HBCU Spelman College’s Alumnae Association in Los Angeles
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Black-ish Star Marsai Martin to be Honored by HBCU Spelman College’s Alumnae Association in Los Angeles

Sentinel News WireJanuary 28, 2020

Courtesy Photo: Marsai Martin (LOS ANGELES, CA) – 15-year old producer, entrepreneur, and award-winning actor Marsai Martin (Black-ish, Little) is among the honorees for the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College – Los Angeles Chapter’s Sisters’ Awards Brunch. In its 26th year, the brunch has raised more than $530,000 in scholarship funds for incoming Spelman freshman from the Los Angeles area. Martin, at just 15-years-old, is already on course to be a whirlwind sensation. At the age of five she landed her first national commercial and shortly after relocating to Los Angeles, she was cast as Diane Johnson on the ABC