Attorney Zulu Ali has received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his achievement in law and activism. Recipients of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award are Marquis Who’s Who biography registry inductees who have achieved greatness and excelled in their field for at least 20 years and are selected based Read More…
Education
Freddie Taylor, CEO of Urban Intellectuals
Freddie Taylor, the founder and CEO of Urban Intellectuals, has launched an online event called “STEAM is the Blackest Thing Ever” to celebrate Black people, history, and culture while inspiring and motivating the youth. The intention is to share tips and techniques with parents, teachers, and community leaders so they can help raise the self-confidence in our Read More…
Jada Jerrelle Brown, Black Teen Makes History
Jada Jerrelle Brown, an African American college-bound student from New Orleans, has been accepted into 141 colleges and universities and awarded $5 million in scholarships. “I’m very happy, blessed, thankful, I was a little overwhelmed but I’m good,” Brown told WGNO. With over $5 million scholarships under her belt, she has received the highest amount of Read More…
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown Wrongfully Convicted
Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, two brothers from Red Springs, North Carolina who spent decades in prison for a crime they did not commit, have finally received a $75 million settlement more than 6 years after they were exonerated. A jury recently decided that the half-brothers should receive $1 million each for every year spent Read More…
English, Want to sound smarter?
English is filled with words that look alike or sound alike (or both), but mean very different things — so it’s easy to get confused and use the wrong word at the wrong moment. As “word nerds” and podcast hosts of NPR’s “You’re Saying it Wrong,” we’re constantly on the lookout for these mistakes. And Read More…
Tulsa Massacre Is American History. It’s Also Mine.
Tulsa Massacre, aired on HBO’S Watchmen, “Sunday night” was something I thought I’d never see on television: the depiction of a dark day in American history that not many know about—the Tulsa massacre. Late in the afternoon of May 30, 1921, Dick Rowland needed to use the bathroom. A 19-year-old black shoe-shiner working in segregated Oklahoma, Read More…







