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Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey has announced the return of its HBCU Old Fashioned Challenge, a fundraising campaign to provide $1.4 million in scholarships for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Running from January 15th through June 19th, the initiative encourages participation through enjoying an Old Fashioned cocktail at restaurants and bars, purchasing Uncle Nearest whiskey at retail stores, or submitting photos of a homemade Old Fashioned. The campaign comes from […]

A major economic shift is underway. Generative AI—technology that can generate new data, text, code, images, and more from vast data sets—stands poised to drive up to $4.4 trillion in global economic impact within the decade. Leaders across industries are waking up to generative AI’s nearly limitless potential to transform how work gets done. But could this transformative technology also help dismantle longstanding barriers to economic inclusion like the racial […]

The Montgomery bus boycott lasted from December of 1955 through December of 1956. What people often remember of that moment in history is that when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, it sparked a bus boycott that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But what that retelling leaves out are all the women who organized for years to make that boycott a reality and who helped […]

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States. "It took me a really long time to wrap my mind around the idea that there's something underneath racism that's […]