Newly Discovered Archival Footage Shows 11-Year-Old Prince Supporting Teachers’ Strike
A remarkable discovery! Newly unearthed archived footage shows 11-year-old Prince supporting a local teachers’ strike, Entertainment Weekly reports. Local Minneapolis radio and television station WCCO, was recently going through their archives when they found rare film footage from a Minneapolis Public School educators’ strike that took place in April 1970. The footage was meant to […]
Cavalier Johnson Makes History As First Black Mayor Of Milwaukee
He was always the top contender! Cavalier Johnson has made history as the first Black mayor of Milwaukee, NBC News reports. Johnson first got his start as a member of the Common Council, getting elected in 2016 and eventually becoming president in April 2020. When longtime Milwaukee mayor, Tom Barrett, decided to resign last December […]
The Currys Unveil First Of 150 Little Town Libraries Combating Low Literacy Rates In Oakland
They’re back at it again! The Currys have just unveiled the first of 150 Little Town Libraries aimed at combating low literacy rates in Oakland, California, ABC 7 News reports. Last September, Ayesha and Stephen Curry launched a new bus mobile under their Eat.Learn.Play Foundation umbrella. The bus acted as both a food truck and […]
Bessie Coleman, First Black Woman To Earn A Pilot’s License, To Appear On 2023 U.S. Quarter
The program will honor a group of women annually until 2025! Bessie Coleman is now one of five trailblazing women set to appear on U.S. quarters next year, WCVB news reports. Earlier this year, we reported that iconic poet Maya Angelou had made history as the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter. While the […]
Film About 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute Protest Is In The Works
The family is co-producing! According to The Hollywood Reporter, a film about the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute protest is in the works. During the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Olympic track athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their black-gloved fists in a Black Power salute on the winners’ podium, in protest of the […]
South Carolina Women’s Basketball Coach Dawn Staley Makes More History
She’s collecting wins everywhere she goes! Dawn Staley is paving the way for Black women coaches in college basketball, Deadspin reports. In 2017, South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Dawn Staley made history as one of two Black women to coach a national championship team, marking South Carolina’s first women’s basketball national championship. In 2021, she did it […]
Here’s How NASA Engineer Rada Griffin Became Alabama’s First Certified Black Woman Winemaker
She’s still got more dreams to chase! A NASA engineer has now made history as the first Black woman winemaker in Alabama, Atlanta Black Star reports. Rada Griffin is an accomplished senior subject matter expert at NASA who is currently working on getting the first woman on the moon by 2024. Despite her success, she […]
Meet Victory Brinker: The World’s Youngest Opera Singer
She’s a little girl with a big voice! Meet Victory Brinker, the world’s youngest opera singer. According to Guinness World Records, Victory is well on her way to become the next star. Adopted as a baby, the Latrobe, Pennsylvania opera singer is one of 11 children. From the age of a toddler, it was very […]
D.C. Students Recreate Iconic Ebony Magazine Covers The Because Of Them We Can Way
We love to see it! These D.C. elementary school students recreated iconic Ebony magazine covers the Because of Them We Can (BOTWC) way. According to NBC Washington, teacher Kendall Maloney is the mastermind behind an inspiring school project where her students dressed up as Black icons who have graced the cover of Ebony magazine. An educator at Bunker Hill Elementary […]
100-Year-Old National Park Service Ranger Officially Retires
She was the oldest active ranger! A 100-year old National Park Service ranger has officially retired, NPS reports. Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest active ranger with the National Park Service (NPS). Soskin began working with NPS at the age of 84, helping with discovering untold stories of African Americans on the Home Front during […]