SAIC Launches Strategic Initiative to Support Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Institutions: "The company's plan includes scholarship, training and funding components. SAIC will establish scholarships to be awarded to students at select HBCUs/MIs. The creation of these scholarships will advance the education of highly-qualified students and promote the success and achievement of minorities in technical fields. The company has granted scholarships in engineering, the physical sciences, and related disciplines to students at Alabama A&M University, Florida International University, among other minority institutions."

The Sun Herald | 06/26/2005 | Number of black players dwindling in baseball: "In 2003-04 - the most recent data compiled by the NCAA - only 6 percent of the nearly 9,800 Division I baseball players were black, compared to 25 percent in all sports combined. Whites made up 84 percent of the baseball rosters."

Opting Out in the Debate on Evolution - New York Times: "'After all, interpretations of Genesis are a matter of faith, not facts,' he wrote. But faith and facts 'should not be pitted against each other; the theory of evolution does not, in fact, conflict with the religious views of most Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Hindu followers.'
But some scientists have made the point that it is difficult to make the case for evolution at a time when many Americans view it as an assault by the secular elite on the values of God-fearing people."

Va. Scholarships Aim to Atone For Abuses During Desegregation: "The scholarships are a small but significant gesture, said Gov. Mark R. Warner (D), who endorsed the idea along with four former governors.
'I think that we have to recognize that this is one of the biggest mistakes Virginia ever made, to close down schools rather than integrate,' Warner said. 'You can never replace those lost years, but this at least goes a partial way to [repay] the debt we owe to these folks.'
Most of the recipients still live in the southern part of the state, where, between 1954 and 1964, authorities closed four school divisions instead of complying with the law and allowing white and black students to learn side by side."

Smart Kids' Reality TV: Vying for Scholarships - New York Times: "Tonight at 8, ABC will show the first of six installments of 'The Scholar,' in which 10 high school seniors pursue a scholarship worth as much as $240,000 by outsmarting, out-talking and out-preening one another before a panel of actual college admissions officers. That sum is intended to cover tuition, room and board at an Ivy League or comparable institution for four years, as well as incidentals like books and travel.
There is plenty of tension - in tonight's episode one boy, on the brink of tears, says he cannot bear to inform his immigrant parents that he has just lost an early round of the competition. Still, nobody on 'The Scholar' loses: at the least, each contestant will walk away with a $20,000 scholarship. (The grand prize is being supplied by an education foundation created by Eli Broad, a California billionaire; the rest of the money has been given by Wal-Mart.)"

i-Newswire.com - Press Release And News Distribution - CNN Donates $1 Million to Journalist Groups for Minority Scholarships: "CNN has donated $1 million to the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for scholarships for minority students pursuing journalism. CNN President Jim Walton made the announcement on behalf of CNN’s more than 4,000 employees during the 2005 World Report Conference in Atlanta and in conjunction with the cable news network’s 25th anniversary."