Tuition help: Baton Rouge native Andrea Gathercole won $100,000 in tuition during the 2019 Dr. Pepper Tuition Giveaway football-tossing contest at halftime of the SEC championship game this weekend in Atlanta. Gathercole is currently a student at Baylor University studying medicine and is a graduate of Dutchtown High School.
Corporate woes: A new report titled “Being Black in Corporate America,” looks at the ways in which diversity and inclusion efforts are falling short for African American professionals, The New York Times reports. The report comes from the nonprofit Center for Talent Innovation. To compile the report, the center surveyed 3,736 full-time professionals of all races. Read the full story here.
At the pump: The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has dipped 1 penny per gallon to $2.65 over the past two weeks. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says that further cuts to retail gas prices are unlikely because crude oil costs are on the rise. The price at the pump is 14 cents higher than it was a year ago. The highest average price in the nation for regular-grade gas is $3.74 per gallon in San Diego. The lowest average is $2.14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Read the full story.
