Over 40,000 people packed into Mercedes-Benz Stadium this year to watch the Celebration Bowl – the national football championship for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
As the Howard University Bison and the Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University Rattlers broke for halftime, representatives from two national healthcare nonprofits took the field to make an announcement.
CareSource was donating $20,000 to offer free heart screenings to Georgia’s HBCU student-athletes. The money will go to Who We Play For, a partner organization providing the staff and equipment to implement the screenings.
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