"Tutitive Dare & Tactical Drive To Forge Ahead"
Zindzi Thompson, a 21-year-old Black woman from South Carolina, has made history as the youngest person to graduate from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also the youngest Black female graduate of medicine in the United States. Since she was as little as 3-years old, Zindzi has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. Read More…
Nationwide — Commondre Cole, a 45-year-old father from Meridian, Mississippi, has graduated from college at the same time as his daughter and his son. All of them simultaneously earned master’s degrees in education from Mississippi State University-Meridian. Iesha Gully, who is a 27-year old second-grade inclusion teacher, was the first in the family to decide to Read More…
Meet Shania Muhammad, a 14-year-old African American student from Oklahoma who has graduated with two associate degrees from both Oklahoma City Community College and Langston University, making history as the youngest graduate known from both colleges. Shania has always been an achiever in school, even receiving an ACT score of 22. During the pandemic, she Read More…
Urban Prep Academies senior Amari Austin, who was accepted at 73 different schools, walks onstage as to the applause of the faculty during the school’s Signing Day celebration at Daley Plaza on Thursday in the Loop, Thursday afternoon, May 19, 2022, Amari Austin’s house brings to mind that Harry Potter scene in which a blizzard Read More…
I rented a house and signed the lease, and now the landlord called me and said that there has been a mistake about the rent and he wants to raise the rent. Can I refuse? I rented a house and signed the lease, and now the landlord called me and said that there has been Read More…
Free Services that Corporate Businesses dreads, that the public should be aware of. You brew coffee at home, you don’t walk into Target and you refuse to order avocado toast. (Can you sense my millennial sarcasm there?) But no matter how cognizant you are of your spending habits, you’re still stuck with those inescapable monthly Read More…
By Lucius Gantt For more than 40 years, I’ve been writing about how much money is spent in political campaigns and how nearly 97% of campaign dollars are spent with vendors of one race. In today’s column, I want to try and use an analogy to hopefully get you to understand why low voter turnout Read More…
Do Black Men have a problem with women with Short hair? HECK YEAH Recently, I’ve decided to chop off 2/3 of my natural hair that I’ve been growing for the last 7 years. Many people are asking, “Why would I do such a thing to such beautiful and lush hair?” And, I say with a Read More…
AfroArt Photo Series Challenges Beauty Standards with Young Black Models AUGUST 10, 2019 ANDREW LASANE All Images: Kahran and Regis Bethencourt. Styling by LaChanda Gatson, Shanna Thomasson and Angela Plummer Husband and wife photography duo Regis and Kahran Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography capture images of children that celebrate the beauty, culture, and heritage of afro hairstyles. Often Read More…
The Sky Bridge opened earlier this month in the Czech Republic and is claiming its title as the longest suspension walkway in the world, a record held previously by a similar design in Portugal. Strung between two peaks of the Kralicky Snezník mountain, the pedestrian path stretches an incredible 721 meters and reaches 95 meters above Read More…
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