The eighth annual HBCU Week in Wilmington kicks off Sunday with a jammed pack schedule and plenty of scholarship money to dish out.Ā The week honors and celebrates Historically Black Colleges and Universities, encourages high-school aged youth to enroll into HBCUs, provides scholarship dollars and sustains a pipeline for employment from undergraduate school to corporate America.Ā Ā Thereās several HBCU Weeks …
Wilmingtonās Tariah Hyland wins John Lewis youth award for activism
A 20-year-old college student from Wilmington who pushed for Black history to be included in the Delaware school curriculum has received an award named for a Civil Rights leader.Ā Tariah Hyland, a junior at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was given the 2023 John Lewis Youth Leadership Award by Delaware Secretary of State Jeff Bullock.Ā The award honors the accomplishments …