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Mentorship is key to growth in one’s career. Working with a mentor can be rewarding and help move your career forward.

How To Be a Good Mentee and Get the Most From Your Mentoring Relationship
Mentorship is key to growth in one’s career. Working with a mentor can be rewarding and help move your career forward.
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Education Debt Prevents Black Families from Building Wealth
As of 2022, approximately 46 million Americans owe a total of nearly $1.75 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, according to federal student aid data. Women carry about two-thirds of that debt. Amid ongoing health and economic emergencies, the U.S. Department of Education issued a federal pause on student loan

Addressing Housing Disparities Among Black Communities
Caption: African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition in a public domain photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Each year, National Fair Housing Month is celebrated in April in honor of the Fair Housing Act which was signed into law by “President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968. The act made “discrimination

Exploring Black Feminism with Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
Women’s League, Newport, R.I. African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Black History in Two Minutes (or so),” (BH2M), a three-time Webby-Award winning video podcast series won its most recent Webby Award for Social Education & Discovery (Video) 2022. Celebrating the Black Feminist Movement

Smithsonian’s #IfThenSheCan Exhibit Celebrates Women in STEM
An image taken at the Smithsonian’s “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit,” by IF/THEN On March 5, 2022, The Smithsonian celebrated Women’s History Month by launching a month-long exhibition of 120 neon-orange statues depicting prominent women who have or are currently excelling in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. “#IfThenSheCan – The

Eagle Academy Foundation Partners with HBCUs to Empower Young Men of Color
In April 2022, according to Blackstar News, The Eagle Academy Foundation – a non-profit dedicated to “creating a new pipeline of academic and social success for inner-city young men,” – announced that they had teamed up with two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Spelman College and Morehouse College, to

Why Funding Arts STEAM Education, Should Be Prioritized
The U.S. has been increasing the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the education system since the acronym was coined in 2001 by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Now, as the world moves into the fourth industrial revolution, there has been a growing call to prioritize arts

Education Debt Prevents Black Families from Building Wealth
As of 2022, approximately 46 million Americans owe a total of nearly $1.75 trillion in U.S. student loan debt, according to federal student aid data. Women carry about two-thirds of that debt. Amid ongoing health and economic emergencies, the U.S. Department of Education issued a federal pause on student loan

Addressing Housing Disparities Among Black Communities
Caption: African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition in a public domain photograph via Wikimedia Commons. Each year, National Fair Housing Month is celebrated in April in honor of the Fair Housing Act which was signed into law by “President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968. The act made “discrimination

Exploring Black Feminism with Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
Women’s League, Newport, R.I. African American Photographs Assembled for 1900 Paris Exposition, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons “Black History in Two Minutes (or so),” (BH2M), a three-time Webby-Award winning video podcast series won its most recent Webby Award for Social Education & Discovery (Video) 2022. Celebrating the Black Feminist Movement

Smithsonian’s #IfThenSheCan Exhibit Celebrates Women in STEM
An image taken at the Smithsonian’s “#IfThenSheCan – The Exhibit,” by IF/THEN On March 5, 2022, The Smithsonian celebrated Women’s History Month by launching a month-long exhibition of 120 neon-orange statues depicting prominent women who have or are currently excelling in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. “#IfThenSheCan – The

Eagle Academy Foundation Partners with HBCUs to Empower Young Men of Color
In April 2022, according to Blackstar News, The Eagle Academy Foundation – a non-profit dedicated to “creating a new pipeline of academic and social success for inner-city young men,” – announced that they had teamed up with two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Spelman College and Morehouse College, to

Why Funding Arts STEAM Education, Should Be Prioritized
The U.S. has been increasing the integration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) in the education system since the acronym was coined in 2001 by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Now, as the world moves into the fourth industrial revolution, there has been a growing call to prioritize arts