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The Harmon Foundation was established as "a medium through which constructive and inspirational service for others may be rendered." [2] William Harmon, who had for years been making secret philanthropic donations in the guise of his alter ego, "Jedediah Tingle", [3] began his foundation's work with a test of the efficacy of loans vs. scholarships in college education, [4] and outright grants ...
Robert Palmer of The New York Times praised the album upon its release, writing that "James (Blood) Ulmer's Black Rock actually lives up to its title...On the first side in particular, Mr. Ulmer, his wonderfully deft and mobile rhythm section, and his wife, the vocalist Irene Datcher, conspire to rethink guitar-band rock as radically as his earlier records rethought jazz-rock and funk.
The first scandal to tar the Grant administration was Black Friday, also known as the Gold Panic, that took place in September 1869, when two aggressive private financiers attempted to corner the gold market in the New York City Gold Room, with blatant disregard to the nation's economic welfare. The scandal involved Treasury Department policy ...
e. Sigma Pi Phi (ΣΠΦ), also known as The Boulé, is an African American professional fraternity. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1904, it is the oldest fraternity for African Americans. The fraternity does not have collegiate chapters and is designed for professionals in mid-career or older. Sigma Pi Phi has over 5,000 members and ...
Black was born September 23, 1823, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, the son of John Black and Jane Egbert Black. In 1836 the family moved to the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which would remain his hometown for the rest of his life. [1] In addition to his home in the city of Lancaster, Black also had a residence in Fulton Township, Pennsylvania. [2]
The 1872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872.Despite a split in the Republican Party, incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant defeated Democratic-endorsed Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley.
Teach For America won the largest grant of nearly 1,700 applications to the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) grant competition in 2010. The 13 scale-up grants required applicants to provide demonstrated evidence of success through objective, methodologically sound studies (e.g., experimental and quasi-experimental ...
A U.S. federal appeals court has granted a conservative group’s request to temporarily block a Black-owned venture capitalist firm from awarding grants exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs.