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The hiring of Jackson brings a total of four Black men being named head coaches at Predominantly White Institutions at the top level of college baseball.
History has been made nearly 70 years after the first female drum major was part of the World Tiger Marching Band....
Named for Cecil Rhodes, an inveterate racist who considered the Africans of his adopted homeland to be “in a state of barbarism,†and for which the former African country of Rhodesia was named, the scholarship was established in 1902. Just five years later, Alain Locke, an African American student at Harvard, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship; but after Locke, it would be more than 50 years before another black person would win a Rhodes Scholarship.
According to the CDC, sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States. While more than 90% are non-Hispanic Black or African American, less than 3% of blood donors are of African-American descent.
Prior to this gift, the Moody Foundation consistently donated to the institution. Their cumulative efforts since 1968 is approximately $1.3 million.
