Amerant Bank, the largest community bank headquartered in Florida, today announced a new multi-year partnership as the official sponsor of the first-ever Florida Beach Bowl, an NCAA-sanctioned intercollegiate varsity football game specifically designed to provide a platform for Black students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to showcase their talents on a national stage. […]
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Bluefield State College seeks conference status. They are petitioning to become a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA). Originally Bluefield Colored Institute, the institution educated children of black coal miners in segregated West Virginia. Although it maintains it’s HBCU status, today Bluefield State College is 90 percent white. The new landscape is a […]
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ATLANTA, Ga. (July 9, 2020) – The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) has made the very difficult decision to extend the suspension of all sporting and championship events through the Fall of 2020. This decision was primarily predicated on the overarching concern shared by all SIAC member institutions with regard to the health and safety of […]
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