The Southern Digest Online - Joyner offers scholarships to HBCU victims of Katrina: "Tom Joyner, nationally syndicated radio and television personality and entrepreneur launched The Tom Joyner Foundation “HBCU Scholarship Relief Fund” to assist students who attended three historically black colleges that were closed due to Hurricane Katrina.

Until October 31, students from Dillard, Xavier and Southern University at New Orleans displaced by Katrina are eligible for a $1,000 scholarship. Up to $1 million has been set aside for the fund.

To receive assistance, students must submit their full name, the school from which they transferred, the school they are currently attending and a current telephone number or e-mail address to hbcurelief@blackamericaweb.com. Applications are also available at www.blackamericaweb.com.

“We know this is a difficult time for everybody,” Joyner said in the press release. “This fund is designed to try to make sure all those students that transferred out of schools in New Orleans – and there are some 9,000 of them – can stay in school because that’s what we’re focused on here at the Foundation,”

According to the release, donations are being accepted online at Black America Web’s Web site or checks can be mailed to The Tom Joyner Foundation Inc. P.O. Box 630495, Irving, Texas, 75063-0496."