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Yolanda Cash Jackson Creates Scholarship For HBCU Students At UF Law
YOLANDA CASH JACKSON, Esquire
...Creates HBCU Scholarship
Will Honor Legacy of John Lewis
FT. LAUDERDALE, FL -- Becker, a multi-practice com- mercial law firm with attor- neys, lobbyists, and other professionals at offices throughout the East Coast, an- nounced Monday that Manage- ment Committee Member and Government Relations Share- holder Yolanda Cash Jack- son created The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s (UF Law) largest endowed scholarship fund.
Ms. Jackson, who re- ceived her J. D. from UF Law in 1990, had long envisioned a program designed to recruit the academically talented grad- uates from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to UF Law. With Ms. Jackson’s initial gift plus other alumni contributions in the Spring of 2020, the HBCU Pathway to Law fund quickly
ATTY. HUGH CULVERHOUSE ...Contributed $1M to the fund in memory of Congressman John Lewis
surpassed $100,000 in com- mitments.
As the country mourned the passing of civil rights icon John Lewis in July, Sarasota developer Hugh Culver- house donated $1,000,000 to the new scholarship fund in Lewis’s memory.
The HBCU Pathway to Law fund will help UF Law enroll at least five HBCU graduates an- nually with full tuition scholar- ships. These students will be known as “John Lewis Schol- ars” and receive enhanced en- gagement opportunities with the UF Law Black Alumni net- work. UF Law will undertake a year-long campaign to match the Culverhouse gift and grow the fund to $2,000,000 before 2022.
Ms. Jackson said, “Hugh and I hope that our donations will motivate additional contri- butions from UF Law alumni, friends of the law school, law firms, bar associations, corpo- rate entities and charitable foundations in honor of John Lewis and the strong tradi- tions of America's HBCUs.”
“My donation honors John Lewis' commitment to fight- ing social injustice which began with lunch counter sit- ins and the original Freedom Rides. I’m hoping that the new “John Lewis Scholars” will use their legal education to con- tinue his struggle for social jus- tice," explained Hugh Culverhouse.
For more information on how to make a gift to the HBCU Pathway to Law En- dowed Scholarship, please call the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs at 352.273.0640 or email devel- opment@law.ufl.edu.
More information on Becker is available at www.beckerlawyers.com.
FAMU Journalism Student Chosen As ESPN/ The Undefeated Rhoden Fellow For 2020-21 School Year
Marissa Stubbs, a sen- ior broadcast journalism stu- dent at FAMU, has been chosen as one of six journal- ism and communications students from HBCU’s to participate in ESPN’s /The Undefeated fourth class of Rhoden Fellows. The Rho- den Fellowship program is a one-year sports journalism internship program with The Undefeated for the 2020- 2021 academic year.
Stubbs, who hails from St. Petersburg, FL, is the sports editor for The Fa-
MARISSA STUBBS ...ESPN/The Undefeated Rhoden Fellow
muan. In addition, she is contributor to “The Playmak- ers,” a weekly sports-talk radio show on WANM 90.5 FM – FAMU’s award-win- ning radio station.
The Rhoden Fellows Ini- tiative is a training program for the next generation of sports journalists from his- torically black colleges and universities, headed by Un- defeated editor-at-large and former New York Times award-winning columnist, William C. Rhoden. The fellowship – established as part of The Undefeated’s mission to de- velop new voices and serve as an incubator for future mul- ticultural journalists – is open to outstanding under- graduate students at HBCUs.
The Undefeated is a digi- tal sports and pop culture website owned and operated by ESPN that launched on May 17, 2016. The site de- scribes itself as "the premier platform for exploring the in- tersections of race, sports and culture. ESPN is owned by Disney (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%).
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