HBCU Week in Wilmington starts Sunday, Sept. 22. (Photo from City of Wilmington)

8th annual HBCU Week starts in Wilmington Sunday

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Culture

The eighth annual HBCU Week in Wilmington kicks off Sunday with a jammed pack schedule and plenty of scholarship money to dish out.  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.   There’s several HBCU Weeks …

Wilmington's HBCU Week runs from Sept. 17 to Sept. 24.

Wilmington announces HBCU Week schedule of events

Jarek RutzHeadlines, Education

Wilmington’s seventh annual HBCU Week and college fair kicks off Sunday, Sept. 17. It hopes to add to the 6,500 admissions and $60 million in scholarships that have been granted to city students since its inception in 2017. City mayor Mike Purzycki and ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith – Wilmington’s HBCU ambassador – this week detailed the schedule of events celebrating …