TMJ4’s @ TheTable: Bucks to bring awareness to Historic Black Colleges and Universities at HBCU Night

MILWAUKEE — An enormous night time and massive alternative developing for Milwaukee highschool seniors on the Bucks HBCU Night time.

“We do not have HBCUs, Historic Black Faculties and Universities, right here in Wisconsin. So how will we use our platform to lift consciousness and let college students know that that is an choice to attend HBCUs?” stated Jakeim Jackson-Bell @ TheTable Monday night time.

Jackson-Bell is the Variety Fairness & Inclusion Outreach Supervisor for the Milwaukee Bucks and organizer of HBCU Night time.

The Bucks have teamed with Johnson Controls to present two $10,000 scholarships to a Historic Black School or College. The scholars will probably be honored through the Bucks vs Hornets recreation on Tuesday, January 31.

A number of pregame HBCU networking alternatives are deliberate that night time at Fiserv Discussion board.

“We’ll begin off with a Black excellence profession panel dialogue, our moderator, and likewise panelists are all HBCU alumni so the scholars will have the ability to hear precisely their expertise and have the ability to present them some useful recommendation,” stated Jackson-Bell.

Greater than 100 nominations had been submitted with the scholarship cash going to Terynn Erby-Walker, a senior at Golda Meir Faculty in Milwaukee, and Russell Morgan Jr., a senior at Milwaukee Rufus King Worldwide Excessive Faculty.

Jackson-Bell says there may even be an HBCU School Truthful the place college students “will have the ability to join with admissions counselors and HBCU recruiters to study extra about what that particular tradition, that faculty admissions course of and likewise scholarships alternatives.”

To study extra concerning the Bucks HBCU night time, go to the NBA’s web site.

To see extra essential interviews with key group leaders watch Charles Benson and Shannon Sims on TMJ4 at 10 p.m.

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