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…
History
Urban Prep Senior Amari Austin “73 Acceptance Letters”
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…
AfroArt Photos
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…
History on two fronts that took too long to achieve
Finally, after 100 years and multiple attempts, federal legislation was passed outlawing lynching and making it a federal crime. The Emmett Till Antilynching Act passed through the House and Senate and was recently signed into law by President Joe Biden. The first attempt to pass an anti-lynching law was in 1900 by North Carolina Rep. Read More…
Young Black Female Navigator turns Sailing Tankers into a Travel Career
Nationwide — Capt. Sandy Campbell has circumnavigated the globe at the helm of the world’s largest gas tankers as a merchant mariner and seafarer. Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, she’s no stranger to taking on challenges and breaking down barriers. But today the young seafarer has traded her seat in the captain’s bridge for Read More…
Transgender vs. School Bathroom Policy
A Transgender pro-family policy advocate who helped win support for the recently passed Alabama “bathroom bill,” which requires students to use bathrooms of their biological sex, is warning that school “trans” policies cause ripple effects of harm to girls even beyond sexual assault. In an exclusive interview with LifeSiteNews, Jameson Taylor, who serves as director of Read More…








