In March 2022, Student Freedom Initiative, a nonprofit focused on providing academic, financial and professional pipeline support to students pursuing STEM degrees at Minority Serving Institutions (MSR), announced a new partnership with Twitter Together to provide additional support to students. “Thanks to our valuable partners, @StudentFreedom has helped many HBCU

“Mount Sinai Robert F. Smith Mobile Prostate Cancer Screening” by Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center Robert F. Smith and Mount Sinai’s Center of Excellence for Prostate Cancer have launched the very first mobile prostate cancer screening bus in the United States. Prostate cancer is a very common disease that many men are

Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of America’s top Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). And, in the U.S., it is the only historically Black liberal arts private college for men. In January 2022, Morehouse College announced the launch of its Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI), which is a

100 million Americans live in areas where they can’t access a quality park within a ten-minute walk from home. In September 2021, a group of congressional leaders reintroduced the Outdoors for All Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that would help allocate funding to “expand outdoor recreational opportunities in urban

STEM jobs often pay higher salaries than non-STEM-related jobs, however, the STEM workforce remains disproportionately white and male. According to 2019 data by Pew Research Center, more than two-thirds of the STEM workforce is white, while Hispanic and Black workers fill approximately 8% and 9% of all STEM jobs, respectively.

In April 2021, Bank of America data showed that Americans invested over half-a-trillion dollars into equity funds in the first five months of the year, which was more money than the past 12 years combined. This massive summ, likely excluded investors from Black communities in the U.S. Because, although more