Month: August 2025

• BPRWire
• Education
• Press Release

Teacher Quality and Retention Program celebrates 16 years of transforming classrooms and building educational leaders

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

(Black PR Wire) Hundreds of educators who have been shaped by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund‘s (TMCF) Teacher Quality...

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• BPRWire
• HBCU
• Press Release

Thurgood Marshall College Fund Hamptons event raises $125,000

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

(Black PR Wire) The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) hosted an exclusive brunch in the Hamptons. Approximately $125,000 was...

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• BPRWire
• Press Release

Urban League Leaders Demand a Halt to Weaponozation of Racial Gerrymandering in Texas

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

(Black PR Wire) New York, Austin, and Houston — As Texas lawmakers reconvene for a special legislative session...

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• BPRWire
• Education

NCCU Receives $500K Grant to Study Career Barriers Facing Young Men in Research Triangle

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

NCCU Receives $500K Grant to Study Career Barriers Facing Young Men in Research Triangle By Dr. Jamal...

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• America Under Attack
• Community Outreach
• Regular Column

New Brief Warns Industrial Policy Rollbacks Threaten Black Workers’ Economic Mobility

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown A new 16-page issue brief by the Joint Center for Political and Economic...

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• America Under Attack
• Regular Column

Local Jails Key to Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan, New Report Finds

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown A new report by the Prison Policy Initiative reveals the critical and largely...

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• America Under Attack
• Regular Column

Trump Denies Disaster Relief to Western Maryland

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown Despite the devastation that unfolded in Maryland’s Allegany and Garrett Counties after catastrophic...

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• Community Outreach
• Regular Column

Sticker Shock in America: From Rental Cars to Groceries, Prices Keep Climbing

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown Prices across the United States are about 26% higher than before the COVID-19...

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• America Under Attack
• Education
• Regular Column

Supreme Court Decision Leaves D.C.’s Black Students Vulnerable, Advocates Warn

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown The Supreme Court’s decision to let President Donald Trump move forward with plans...

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• Black History

Bill Clay Sr., Congressional Black Caucus Founding Member and Missouri Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 94

AAV Staff August 5, 2025

by Stacy M. Brown William Lacy Clay Sr., a civil rights leader, legislative powerhouse, and one of...

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