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Circulating The HBCU Business Dollar: HBCU Money Partners With Proud Product For The HBCU Money Logo Tee

Posted on March 20, 2025 by | Leave a comment

HBCU Money has partnered with Proud Product to sell its HBCU Money Logo Tee through the HBCU Grad online store, creating a powerful collaboration that promotes both HBCU pride and financial empowerment. This partnership is a strategic move that brings together two brands dedicated to uplifting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and fostering economic growth within the Black community.

HBCU Money is known for its commitment to financial literacy, economic development, and wealth-building strategies specifically tailored for HBCU students, graduates, and supporters. By teaming up with Proud Product, a brand that celebrates HBCU culture and academic excellence through apparel, this collaboration expands the reach of HBCU Money’s mission.

HBCU Grad’s Shopify-based platform provides an accessible and well-established marketplace for HBCU-themed merchandise, making it easier for supporters to purchase the HBCU Money Logo Tee. This partnership allows HBCU Money to leverage HBCU Grad’s e-commerce expertise and existing customer base while reinforcing a shared vision of empowering HBCU communities.

The HBCU Money Logo Tee, available in heather gray, is more than just a t-shirt—it represents a movement focused on financial awareness and economic independence. By purchasing this shirt through Proud Product, buyers are not only expressing their school spirit but also supporting two HBCU-owned brands that prioritize education, financial stability, and generational wealth.

This collaboration is an example of how HBCU-focused businesses can work together to amplify their impact. By joining forces, HBCU Money and Proud Product are strengthening the culture, supporting Black entrepreneurship, and promoting a message of financial empowerment—one t-shirt at a time.

HBCU Money | HBCU Money Logo Tee | Tshirt – Heather Gray

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HBCU Money™ Turns 13 Years Old

Posted on February 4, 2025 by | 2 comments

By William A. Foster, IV

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me. – Sojourner Truth

HBCU Money is officially a teenager. Usually the teenage years are a rough and tumultuous time and it is hard to see that being any differently for us. The current social and political climates that we are about to experience over the next four years will test our patience and fortitude. It is vital that HBCU Money stays a voice of focus, strategy, and guidance in the African American institutional space as it relates to economics, finance, and investment.

It is inherent that we continue to strengthen and build our African American institutional ecosystem. It is also vital that that ecosystem build bridges of connection with the African Diaspora institutional ecosystem. We must throw off the shackles of isolationism and island mentality that plagues us so deeply. Before we make decisions we must ask ourselves is there an African American institution that exist that serves that need or want. If it is not there, then we must discuss building it. Where is the HBCU that has an African American MBA that teaches us how to build and run businesses from our interest? Where is the HBCU that has a law school focused on African American agriculture and real estate? Where is the African American bank focused on export-import for African American businesses? Are we using our talents to enhance ourselves individually or are we using our talents to enhance our institutions that enhance the collective? These are just a few of the vital things we are missing in our financial infrastructure.

There is not much that needs to be said, but plenty that needs to be done.

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HBCU Money™ Turns 12 Years Old

Posted on February 3, 2024 by | Leave a comment

By William A. Foster, IV

“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.” – Carter G. Woodson, The Mis-education of the Negro

Last year, I said this was a marathon and not a sprint. However, at this moment a year later it does feel like we are picking up speed. Over the years there have been setbacks and bumps and ascending moments. Moments where I believed we were set to takeoff and moments where it felt like this was going to crash. It is truly amazing that 12 years in throughout everything, HBCU Money is still here and it is still strong.

There is nothing that I desire more than to see it expand, to see it be part of the fabric of representing the information of the HBCU nation and community. That we maybe empowered to shape our own narrative and that African America one days truly sees the value in our own institutions as others do. My goal is and continues to be that HBCU Money be part of the fabric of an ecosystem of HBCU Alumni Owned media that shows just how powerful we can truly be when we take ownership into our own hands.

As HBCU Money continues its path along with our sister blog HBCU Politics and more waiting in the weekends it will soon see the long transformation from caterpillar to butterfly – with a sting like a bee.

Keep your eyes on the horizon and know that the sunrise of our day is still upon us.

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HBCU Money™ Turns 11 Years Old

Posted on February 1, 2023 by | Leave a comment

By William A. Foster, IV

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius

As we embark on our 11th year here at HBCU Money, we are not slowing down with the work we have before us. Our desire to continue to be a strong monetary and fiscal voice for the HBCU community is ever present. Covering the HBCUpreneurs who are growing amazing businesses, the business schools who are shaping tomorrow’s African American private sector leadership, HBCU economists who become the first to ever sit on the Federal Reserve board, and so much more. Our community has a voice and stories that need to be told, discussions that need to be broaden, and the hard questions that need to be asked. We have been there for it all and will continue to be there for years to come.

Thank you to everyone who has been there since the beginning and who has come to rely and trust that quality will always come first. In this day where sensationalism seems to be ruling over substance, HBCU Money and sibling blogs will continue to stand firm that there are those who desire and want to have their intelligence valued. That thinking beyond the headlines has not become a lost art.

Holding true to the saying, it is a marathon and not a sprint.

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HBCU Money™ Turns 10 Years Old

Posted on May 29, 2022 by | Leave a comment

By William A. Foster, IV

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.” – Thomas Sowell

A DECADE! HBCU Money is still here, still growing, and still strong. We continue to be here to ask the hard questions, present strategic analysis, and be objective about African American and African Diaspora economic, finance, and investment from an HBCU and institutional perspective. The HBCU Money culture remains deeply rooted in our Pan-African values in how we observe the investment world. This means that everything we see will always believe that African America and its institutions will always be stronger together and even more empowered as they connect and partner with our brethren African Diaspora institutions and the larger Diaspora ecosystem.

What does the next decade hold for HBCU Money? More. The original goals of HBCU Money have not changed and while the path there has taken longer than we expected, our constitution is as strong as ever. We plan to expand our staff, our coverage, and the mediums through which we provide information.

Thank you to those who have been there since the beginning, who have joined along the way, and all of you who continue to be our champions.

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