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…
Jeremiah Bledsoe, Scholar athlete, has received the Hershey Heartwarming Hero Award for his community service initiative to support the elderly. He is a Junior at Nolan Catholic High School in Ft. Worth, Texas, and for the past 10 years, has been visiting local nursing homes donating items to elderly residents. The collaboration between Hershey and Read More…
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, 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…
Black Wall Street: The Forgotten Women The neighborhood attacked in the Tulsa Race Massacre was known as a Black intellectual and financial mecca. Women were a little-known part of its success. By Brentin Mock Brentin Mock is a writer and editor for CityLab in Pittsburgh, focused on issues of racial equity, economic inequities, and environment/climate justice. Here’s what’s Read More…
A United States Of America Proclamation Remix by Joe Mason Where, as the Senate of the United States devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and Just Government of Almighty God, in all Affairs of man and of nations has by a resolution requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National Prayer for Read More…
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