WASHINGTON/ATLANTA – The HBCU Green Fund (The Green Fund), in partnership with its youth-led Sustainable Africa Futures Network, hosted a powerful side event connecting 18 countries during the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. The gathering showcased a bold model for climate innovation across Africa and the United States and marked […]
HBCU Green Fund Launches Bold Earth Day Initiative: Road to Belém — One Struggle, One Future
WASHINGTON, D.C.— On Earth Day 2025, the HBCU Green Fund’s Sustainable Africa Future Network convened a powerful virtual gathering of youth leaders from 16 African countries and across the African Diaspora. United under the banner “Road to Belém: One Struggle, One Future (#Road2Belem),” the youth launched a bold Call to Action and announced the launch […]
HBCU Green Fund Hosts Women’s Economic Development Trade Mission to Senegal
By Edrea Davis – The HBCU Green Fund, led by founder Felicia Davis, marked Black History Month with a week-long women’s economic development trade mission to Senegal, bringing together 22 elected officials, nonprofit leaders, and businesswomen to strengthen commercial, cultural, and humanitarian ties with the region. The delegation — which included GA State Rep. Rhonda […]
U.S. Climate Activist, Illai Kenney, Urged Young Leaders at the Continental Youth Symposium in Uganda to Unite Globally for Climate Justice
By Edrea Davis – Determined to encourage unity across the African Diaspora, expand their global network of youth working to advance climate justice and to promote the upcoming PreCOP27 Africa Virtual Summit, the HBCU Green Fund sent a small delegation to participate in the 3rd African Peer Review Mechanism Continental Youth Symposium in Kampala, Uganda […]
Environmental Justice Leader Mustafa Santiago Ali to Dialogue with White House Advisor Gina McCarthy
Edrea Davis – U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry, Rep. Alma Adams, and Sen. Ed Markey will also address national climate goals and implementing the historic Justice40 initiative Washington, D.C. – After an introduction by U.S. Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry, environmental justice leader, Mustafa Santiago Ali, will discuss the Biden-Harris Administration’s approach to climate […]
Proposed EPA Roll-Backs Have Air of Injustice
President Trump visiting West Virginia to announce a major rollback in regulations limiting coal fired power plant emissions feels like being lost in a dark coal mine, reaching a fork in the tunnel with one direction pitch black and a bright light at the end of the other. The choice seems so obvious and yet […]
