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A Night of Dolly Parton Songs Raised $1 Million for Her Imagination Library

October 22, 2026

The tribute ended the way it had to. Carrie Underwood led the full cast of “CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton” through the title song at Belmont University’s Fisher Center on Wednesday night, closing an evening

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Pamela Calloway Returns to Lead East Bay Community Foundation Through Its CEO Search

October 22, 2026

East Bay Community Foundation did not need an icebreaker for its new chief executive this week. Pamela Calloway has chaired the foundation’s board, sat on it for years, and already held the top job once. On Monday, October 19, she started her

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Purdue Will Name Its New Business Hall for Roland Parrish After His $42 Million Gift

October 22, 2026

Every Sunday morning of Roland Parrish’s childhood began with the same arithmetic. His parents gave him seventy cents, in exact change: two quarters and two dimes. One quarter went to the church. One quarter went to the piggy bank. A dime was

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Black Girls Rock! Is Taking Its Celebration on an Arena Tour

October 22, 2026

For twenty years, BLACK GIRLS ROCK! has mostly lived on a stage for one televised night a year. On October 14, founder Beverly Bond announced that the brand is going on the road: a multi-year partnership with the Black Promoters Collective will

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.

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

October 22, 2026

Homecoming at Morgan State has outgrown the campus ballroom, so this year the gala moved. The 42nd Annual Homecoming Gala, the signature evening of Morgan’s homecoming week, filled the Hall at Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland with about 1,000 alumni and raised

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UNCF’s Michael Lomax Asks HBCU Alumni to Double Their Homecoming Giving

October 22, 2026

The oversized check is a homecoming ritual now. At Tuskegee last fall, the Class of 1995 posed in the chapel with a check for $44,961.29, dated the weekend of the game. Multiply that photograph by every class year, every tailgate and every

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A Night of Dolly Parton Songs Raised $1 Million for Her Imagination Library

Pamela Calloway Returns to Lead East Bay Community Foundation Through Its CEO Search

Purdue Will Name Its New Business Hall for Roland Parrish After His $42 Million Gift

Black Girls Rock! Is Taking Its Celebration on an Arena Tour

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

UNCF’s Michael Lomax Asks HBCU Alumni to Double Their Homecoming Giving

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A Night of Dolly Parton Songs Raised $1 Million for Her Imagination Library

Pamela Calloway Returns to Lead East Bay Community Foundation Through Its CEO Search

Purdue Will Name Its New Business Hall for Roland Parrish After His $42 Million Gift

Black Girls Rock! Is Taking Its Celebration on an Arena Tour

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

UNCF’s Michael Lomax Asks HBCU Alumni to Double Their Homecoming Giving

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