"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…
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…
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…
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