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Western Michigan University Multicultural Affairs for Students hosted the ninth annual Multicultural Meet and Greet on Monday, Sep. 16. The event featured an array of Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) with a focus on students of color, as well as food, barbers, music and dancing. “The Multicultural Meet and Greet is an orientation that encourages a sense of belonging for students of color at WMU and in the greater Kalamazoo community,” Assistant Dean of Academic Advising Tomika Griffin-Brown said. She continued: “The event intends to increase retention and graduation rates for WMU students of color through coordinated efforts and college and…
The opening night of WMU Theatre’s “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive” was met with a full house at the Gilmore Theatre Complex on Sept. 27. The play follows seven women in the White House trying to avert a national crisis caused by the president. A political, non-partisan farce, “POTUS” focuses on providing some humor in an often bleak subject, according to stage manager Lauren Myers. “It’s a tough world and a lot of us can feel very jaded about it all, and this show relates to that in a motivational way,”…
The Cultural Center filled with students ready to mingle for the Social Soirée hosted by the Multicultural Student Center on Wednesday afternoon. The event provided complementary pizza and sticky notes for games that allowed students to get to know each other. According to the MSC’s official webpage, the Social Soiree is one of many events hosted by the MSC, which was established in 2002 to create a more inclusive campus environment. Sarah Accius, registered student organization (RSO) and outreach director for MSC, said that the soiree is mainly to get the RSOs to interact with each other. “Any club that you…
NEW YORK, Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — BET Media Group (a unit of Paramount, NASDAQ: PARAA; PARA), the world’s largest media company dedicated to empowering the Black community and championing Black culture, is proud to continue its commitment to mobilizing Black voters through comprehensive voter education initiatives, community engagement, and strategic partnerships, leading up to the 5th Annual National Black Voter Day on September 20, 2024. BET has partnered with the National Urban League, NAACP, and over 40 other civic engagement partners to amplify this nonpartisan initiative. It focuses on empowering Black voters to participate in local, state, and national elections each year, protecting Black voters against disenfranchisement and suppression,…
Amy Schumer, Connie Britton, Brandi Chastain, Meena Harris, Sheryl Sandberg, Tekedra Mawakana, and Tory Burch among the bold name investors committed to Midi’s goal of closing the women’s healthcare gap LOS ALTOS, Calif., Sept. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Midi Health, the fastest-growing virtual care clinic for women 35+, today announced that a high-powered group of women leaders and icons spanning entertainment, professional sports, media, beauty and fashion, health and wellness, technology, and business have joined Midi’s oversubscribed $63M Series B round via a $5M Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), formed and managed by Midi investor Operator Collective. SPV investors are joining…
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2024 — Diversity Woman Magazine announces its fourth annual ‘ELITE 100’ issue, a tribute to 100 extraordinary Black women leaders. Each year, more and more Black women are undeniably making historic gains in corporate America. To celebrate these remarkable women and encourage those who will be featured in future lists, Diversity Woman presents the annual Elite 100 Class of 2024 list of Black women leaders. Diversity Woman Magazine is the essential business magazine and community for women professionals and executives, with an initiative to support leadership and executive development for all women of all races, cultures,…
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2024 — Operation HOPE and U.S. Bank held a ribbon cutting and celebration of its ‘HOPE Inside’ location at 5760 Crenshaw Blvd., Los Angeles, CA., on September 18, 2024. The award-winning HOPE Inside program, a partnership between Operation HOPE and U.S. Bank, offers access to free financial coaching services and focuses on the economic empowerment of low- to moderate-income individuals, families, and small business owners in underserved communities. U.S. Bank and Operation HOPE extend partnership offering increased access to free financial coaching services at the newly renovated branch in Crenshaw, Los Angeles. A HOPE Inside coach,…
t’s time to #ShopLikeNana. Harlem-based Black Public Media (BPM), the national media arts nonprofit, is spotlighting the environmental crisis caused by fast fashion and promoting sustainable forms of fashion. Launched on Monday, September 9, during New York Fashion Week, BPM’s latest BE HEARD campaign, in partnership with Paramount+ and Big Couch Entertainment, introduces #ShopLikeNana. “BE HEARD: #ShopLikeNana encourages consumers to rediscover style and reduce fast fashion by returning to the “hand me down” form of fashion by shopping in their grandmother’s closet, reusing their wardrobe, or buying pieces from their local thrift stores,” BPM wrote on its website. “The goal…
New YorkCNN — Robby Starbuck, a former Hollywood music video director turned conservative activist, has caught fire campaigning online against some major American brands’ diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI), support for gay Pride marches and LGBTQ events, strategies to slow climate change and other social policies. Starbuck is both riding a wave of right-wing hostility to DEI programs and corporate advocacy on issues like climate change and LGBTQ rights and advancing the opposition himself. He has channeled energy on the right to target specific brands popular with politically conservative customers — Harley-Davidson, Tractor Supply Co. and John Deere — and relentlessly drawn attention online to…
Harlem was alive with music, dancers, marchers and attendees at the African American Day Parade Sunday. “It’s joy, it’s fun, so many organizations, people of color just sharing our culture,” Abi Corbin, director and head coach of Eagle Academy Queens Campus Cheer, said. What You Need To Know The 55th Annual African Day Parade made its way down Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in HarlemThe cultural significance of Harlem includes the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920sSome of the topics important to attendees include represenation of the Black community, solidarity and health The 55th annual parade celebrates African American culture in Harlem — significant…