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Dionne Warwick Was Honored at a Ball That Raised $3 Million for Blood Cancer Research

October 25, 2026

At every place setting inside Cipriani Wall Street on Monday night sat a long, tapered candle. Before a single award was presented, Denise Rich asked her guests to light them, for her daughter Gabrielle and for everyone in treatment now.

Philanthropy

Gateway for Cancer Research Raised $3.5 Million at Its 35th Cures Gala in Barrington Hills

October 23, 2026

The 35th edition of the Cures Gala set its target to match its anniversary: $3.5 million, raised in one evening at a private residence in Barrington Hills, Illinois. Gateway for Cancer Research reached the number on Saturday, October 17, and

Guests in black tie at Morgan State University's 42nd Annual Homecoming Gala at the Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland. Photo: Sloane Brown via The Baltimore Sun.

Morgan State’s Homecoming Gala Raised About $429,000 in a New Room

Homecoming at Morgan State has outgrown the campus ballroom, so this year the gala moved.

An Anonymous Donor Gave Centre College $225 Million

The man on stage was applauding his own announcement. When Centre College president Milton C.

Philanthropy

A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

October 26, 2026

Twenty years ago, Phyllis and Andrew Rabinowitz walked into an emergency room with their nine-day-old daughter and walked out without her. On Wednesday, October

Philanthropy

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

October 26, 2026

Nobody goes home empty-handed this season. When REVOLT’s Bet On Black returned on Monday, October 19, the entrepreneurship series dropped its single grand prize

Philanthropy

The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

October 26, 2026

Yolanda Caldwell’s house is yellow, three bedrooms, on a quiet street near a golf course in San Bernardino County. Caldwell, 55, is a disabled

Philanthropy

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

October 26, 2026

The announcement was made on empty land. On a 220-acre wooded tract near U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 in southern Apex, a site so

Philanthropy

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

October 26, 2026

One year into the job, Heather Gerken has redrawn the map of the Ford Foundation. The foundation announced a new strategic direction on Thursday,

Politics

A Black man with a megaphone addresses a crowd at an outdoor voter organizing event

Politics

Saturday Is the First National Black Man Voter Day

October 24, 2026

Saturday is the first National Black Man Voter Day, the closing act of a nationwide Week of Action built by the NAACP, the National Urban League, 100 Black Men of America, Black Men Vote, Woke Vote, and State of the People. The coalition’s goal is specific: mobilize 100,000 Black men to vote, in group activations, community conversations, and trips to

Politics

Katie Zacharia Fired as Trump’s Press Secretary After Just Five Days on the Job

October 18, 2026

Katie Zacharia’s brief tenure as White House press secretary has come to

The Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Photo by Ken Lund, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Politics

Georgia’s Governor’s Race Is Down to Two Points

October 17, 2026

More than 188,000 Georgians voted in person on the first day of

Official portrait of U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock. Photo by Rebecca Hammel, U.S. Senate Photographic Studio, via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

Politics

Warnock Keeps Bringing Home Money for HBCU Science

October 17, 2026

The federal figure for Clark Atlanta University is $9,784,632. Not roughly ten

Philanthropy

A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

October 26, 2026

Twenty years ago, Phyllis and Andrew Rabinowitz walked into an emergency room with their nine-day-old daughter and walked out without her. On Wednesday, October 21, five hundred people filled Capitale on the Bowery and raised nearly $2 million to keep that sentence

Philanthropy

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

October 26, 2026

Nobody goes home empty-handed this season. When REVOLT’s Bet On Black returned on Monday, October 19, the entrepreneurship series dropped its single grand prize and replaced it with a shared one: every student founder in Season 6 takes a portion of a

Philanthropy

The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

October 26, 2026

Yolanda Caldwell’s house is yellow, three bedrooms, on a quiet street near a golf course in San Bernardino County. Caldwell, 55, is a disabled Army National Guard veteran who lost her first house during the pandemic and then moved her two sons

Philanthropy

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

October 26, 2026

The announcement was made on empty land. On a 220-acre wooded tract near U.S. 1 and N.C. 540 in southern Apex, a site so undeveloped it reads as GPS coordinates on a map, The Duke Endowment committed $100 million on Tuesday, October

Philanthropy

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

October 26, 2026

One year into the job, Heather Gerken has redrawn the map of the Ford Foundation. The foundation announced a new strategic direction on Thursday, October 22, reorganizing its grantmaking around what it calls the preconditions for thriving democracies. It is the first

Atlanta·News

Atlanta’s First Bike Park Nears Opening, Bringing New Trails and Riding Features to the Westside

October 25, 2026

Atlanta is getting ready to welcome its first dedicated bike park, with a new cycling destination at Shirley C. Franklin Park on the city’s Westside nearing completion. The project is expected to finish its first phase by the end of 2026, giving

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Dionne Warwick Was Honored at a Ball That Raised $3 Million for Blood Cancer Research

Gateway for Cancer Research Raised $3.5 Million at Its 35th Cures Gala in Barrington Hills

Morgan State’s Homecoming Gala Raised About $429,000 in a New Room

An Anonymous Donor Gave Centre College $225 Million

A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

Politics

Saturday Is the First National Black Man Voter Day

Katie Zacharia Fired as Trump’s Press Secretary After Just Five Days on the Job

Georgia’s Governor’s Race Is Down to Two Points

Warnock Keeps Bringing Home Money for HBCU Science

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A New York Gala Raised Nearly $2 Million So Emergency Rooms Are Ready for Children

Every HBCU Founder on Bet On Black Season 6 Shares a $500,000 Growth Fund

The Home Depot Foundation Will Spend $1 Billion on Veteran Housing by 2032

The Duke Endowment Gave $100 Million to Build a Children’s Hospital for North Carolina

The Ford Foundation Is Reorganizing Around Democracy and Racial Justice

Atlanta’s First Bike Park Nears Opening, Bringing New Trails and Riding Features to the Westside

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