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- Michael B. Jordan is showcasing Black college basketball players in a new event coming in December of next year.

The 33-year-old actor and PEOPLE's 2020 Sexiest Man Alive announced on Wednesday the launch of an inaugural historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) college basketball showcase, the Hoop Dreams Classic, which will be held on Dec. 18, 2021, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.

The Hoop Dreams Classic will be a one-day, doubleheader basketball showcase featuring four of the top Division I HBCU men's and women's basketball programs.

The event will also highlight other elements of HBCU life and culture, including a battle of the bands, culinary events, live musical performances, film festivals, and college and career opportunities.
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Alfred Oscar Coffin was a professor of mathematics, and Romance language. He is best known for being the first African American to obtain a PhD in biology
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Coffin earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree at Fisk University. In 1889, he earned his PhD in biology at Illinois Wesleyan University. His thesis was titled 'The Origin of the Mound Builders'.
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In 1887, Coffin taught at Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College for two years in Mississippi. From 1889 to 1895, he worked as a professor of mathematics and Romance language at Wiley University
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