97-Year-Old Tuskegee Airman Receives 2nd Congressional Medal For His Service
A deserving honor! A 97-year-old Tuskegee airman just received his 2nd Congressional Gold Medal, KKTV reports. Airmen Franklin J. Macon was just awarded his 2nd Congressional Medal, this time for his WWII Civil Air Patrol Service. Macon received his first medal for his service as an original Tuskegee Airmen. The journey for Macon and other Black […]
Philadelphia Dad Taught Himself How To Sew And Has Made Over 200 Dresses For His Daughter
He is dad goals! A Philadelphia father is building a bond with his daughter by sewing clothes for her. Michael Gardner is the creator of Daddy Dressed Me, a fashion content blog featuring designs by the 36-year-old father and modeled by his 9-year-old daughter, Ava. Gardner started creating designs for Ava when she was just 3-years-old, […]
Major General Cedric T. Wins Makes History As First Black Man To Lead Virginia Military Institute
He’s shattering glass ceilings! Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins is making history as the first Black man to lead the Virginia Military Institute (VMI), Black Enterprise reports. Wins was named interim superintendent of VMI recently, voted in by the Board of Visitors Executive Committee. Wins graduated from VMI in 1985, playing on the basketball team while there […]
Veteran Firefighter Becomes First Black Woman Named Deputy Fire Chief In Northern VA
She’s the boss! A veteran firefighter is making history as the first Black woman to be named deputy fire chief in Northern Virginia, NBC 4 Washington reports. Tiffanye Wesley has been with the Arlington County Fire Department for nearly 3 decades, working in a number of fields including the bomb squad. Two years ago, Wesley […]
Honoring Revolutionary Audre Lorde: The Poet Who Dared Us All To Be Powerful
An unconquerable force. Audre Geraldine Lorde was a poet, novelist, feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist. A New York native, Lorde served as a librarian in NY public schools from 1961 and 1968 before releasing her first volume of poems, The First Cities (1968), Poets.org reports. She would go on to release several other works, including Cables to Rage […]
HBO Releases Trailer for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between the World and Me’ Adaptation
Let’s put this on our calendars! HBO recently released the trailer for the new adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, The Root reports. The adaptation of Coates’ award-winning nonfiction work is set to be released on HBO, featuring an all-star cast. The trailer includes actors Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, Oprah Winfrey, Mahershala Ali, Wendell […]
This Oakland Housing Activist Just Won A City Council Seat Against An Incumbent By A Landslide
We are reclaiming our power! An Oakland, California housing activist just won her campaign for a city council seat, Blavity reports. The activist, Carroll Fife, ran for the Third District city council seat and won against incumbent Lynette Gibson McElhaney by a landslide, mainly with the help of her 1,000 volunteers. It was Fife’s past work and her […]
Fans Launch Petition To Make LeVar Burton The Next Host Of ‘Jeopardy!’
We choose Black excellence for $1000! As fans mourn the loss of iconic “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who died on Nov. 8 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, they’ve also speculated who would take his place. Among the list of possible celebrities and ex game winners is LeVar Burton, the beloved host of the […]
At 15-Years-Old Emory Pruitt Became One Of The Youngest Students To Ever Attend Clark Atlanta University
She’s living her teen dreams! Emory Pruitt recently turned 16-years-old but has already made history, becoming one of Clark Atlanta University’s youngest students in the fall 2020 class. At just 15, she was accepted to the historically Black College in Atlanta. Pruitt graduated with a 3.7 GPA, but she faced adversity at her first high […]
Victor Glover Set To Make History As First Black NASA Astronaut To Live On International Space Station
Up, up, away! This Sunday, Nov. 15, at 7:27pm EST, Victor Glover will be soaring into space, piloting The SpaceX Crew-1 mission. He is knocking out several firsts with this flight. Glover is the first Black person in space since Alvin Drew in 2007, the first Black astronaut to fly for SpaceX, and the first […]