Pollie Anne Myers-Pinkins
AAAN Endowed Scholarship
The Pollie Anne Myers-Pinkins AAAN Endowed Scholarship
The Black Alumni Association at the University of Alabama shepherds the Pollie Anne Myers-Pinkins AAAN Endowed Scholarship in honor of Pinkins. Pollie Anne Myers-Pinkins was an American Civil Rights activist, who along with Autherine Lucy, were the first African Americans admitted to the University of Alabama in 1952.
The scholarship was established in 2004 by the African American Alumni Society to promote the education of deserving undergraduate students who enroll full-time at the University of Alabama.
Jordan J. Edwards Memorial
Endowed Scholarship
In 2018, in association with the Black Alumni Association, the cast and crew of Netflix’s Dear White People began a scholarship to honor the late Dallas, Texas teen Jordan Edwards. The then 15-year-old was fatally shot on April 2017 by officer Roy Oliver, who fired into the car he was sitting in, as his family was departing from a house party. The dreadful episode happened during the weekend of the show’s premiere on Netflix. The incident led the show’s cast to create something in memory of the teen’s legacy. They then decided to establish The Jordan J. Edwards Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund at the University of Alabama which falls under the lead of the University’s Black Alumni Association. Jordan’s dream was to attend UA, play football for the Crimson Tide and study to become a pilot.
The scholarship will promote the education of deserving undergraduate students who enroll full-time at the University of Alabama
Boykin F. Hunter-Dave McGlathery
Endowed Scholarship
The Boykin F. Hunter-Dave McGlathery Endowed Scholarship
“If you give students a couple of thousand dollars, that is money they don’t have to take out in a student loan or ask for it from their parents who might not have the resources to make that work.” – Artis Brown, Class of 1996
In effort to provide a more direct impact on student’s lives, Artis Brown created a scholarship that would have a geographic connection to his hometown of Mobile and that of his wife’s, Huntsville. Brown’s wife, Kim, who is a 1997 UA graduate. Together they created the Boykin F. Hunter-Dave McGlathery Endowed Scholarship.
The Scholarship was established in 2019 by Artis Brown in association with the Black Alumni Association.
Jennica Kimberly Mancarella
Endowed Scholarship
Jennica Kimberly Mancarella was born a creative. By the time she entered the University of Alabama in 2018, she was already a sought after designer and seamstress in the Birmingham, Alabama region. Before her untimely loss in March 2020, she was working to present her first show in New York Fashion Week's official events. Confirmation of her event was received just days after her demise.
After her loss, Jennica's husband Orazio endowed a scholarship in her honor at her alma mater, the University of Alabama from which she posthumously received her degree is fashion design.
The Jennica Kimberly Mancarella Endowed Scholarship was established in 2020 by Orazio Mancarella in association with the Black Alumni Association. It will promote the education of deserving undergraduate students who enroll full-time in the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama