Corporate giving

A group of protesters march in the snow around the Hennepin County Government Center, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Minneapolis where the second week of jury selection continues in the trial for former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is charged with murder in the death of George Floyd during an arrest last may in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Corporations become unlikely financiers of racial equity

In the months since the police killing of George Floyd sparked a racial reckoning in the United States, American corporations have emerged as an unexpected leading source of funding for social justice.

Keiondra Ross poses with her children Kaydan Lawson, left, Kayla Lawson, and Daniel Lawson, right, at their home, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, in Miami. Ross is a single mother and receives donations from charities to help put presents under her Christmas tree. The recent closure of Toys R Us created some collateral damage -- the Toys for Tots charity drive. More than 250,000 toys donated by consumers and $5 million, 40 percent of corporate giving, came through Toy R Us last year, holes the annual Marine Corps' community effort is working to fill. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Toys R Us closure hits Toys for Tots hard

Tennessee State University’s Glover named to federal panel

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University President Glenda Glover has been appointed vice chair of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities by President Joe Biden.