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http://www.theblackpost.org/charles-barkley-announces-1-million-pledge-to-morehouse-college/
Basketball legend Charles Barkley recently announced his intention to make a $1 million gift to Morehouse College. In that same announcement, he pledged similar support to Auburn University (his alma mater) and the Wounded Warrior Project.
The gift to Morehouse will benefit the College’s burgeoning Journalism and Sports Program (JSP) that was initiated in 2007. Since its inception, this program has sent 40 of its students into the media workforce, while 17 have earned master’s degrees in journalism or related fields, including six at Columbia University.
Currently, nearly 65 percent of professional football players and 80 percent of professional basketball players are black; yet only 8 percent of newspaper sports journalists are African American. In response to this phenomenon, JSP was conceived by veteran filmmaker and Morehouse alumnus Spike Lee and his friend, the late Ralph Wiley, one of the nation’s first African American sports columnists.
Basketball legend Charles Barkley recently announced his intention to make a $1 million gift to Morehouse College. In that same announcement, he pledged similar support to Auburn University (his alma mater) and the Wounded Warrior Project.
The gift to Morehouse will benefit the College’s burgeoning Journalism and Sports Program (JSP) that was initiated in 2007. Since its inception, this program has sent 40 of its students into the media workforce, while 17 have earned master’s degrees in journalism or related fields, including six at Columbia University.
Currently, nearly 65 percent of professional football players and 80 percent of professional basketball players are black; yet only 8 percent of newspaper sports journalists are African American. In response to this phenomenon, JSP was conceived by veteran filmmaker and Morehouse alumnus Spike Lee and his friend, the late Ralph Wiley, one of the nation’s first African American sports columnists.
