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Jade DeMelody Jackson, a journalist with The Indianapolis Star, recently revealed on an Instagram post to announce her return to higher education as an official MBA candidate at Jarvis Christian University. This milestone is particularly significant for Jackson because her great-grandfather, Thomas Buchanan Frost, was one of the people who founded the university over a century ago.

– Recently  UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, proudly unveiled its 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report. The report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs, commissioned by UNCF’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI), is a comprehensive, data-driven analysis highlighting the substantial contributions the nation’s 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) make to their students, local communities and the nation at large.

       The former players all hail from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the campaign touted their support to mark National Black Voter Day. The alums signed onto a letter praising Harris’s “integrity, values and demonstrated commitment to justice and equality of opportunity.”