First Official Portrait Of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
She looks SUPREME! The first official portrait of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has been released just one day after she was confirmed to the Supreme Court as the first Black woman to ever sit on the highest court in the land. According to Ebony magazine, Lelanie Foster is the photographer behind Justice Jackson’s official first photo, sharing that […]
Arkansas Student Gets Accepted To More Than 50 Colleges, Receives Over $1.3 Million In Scholarship Offers
She received five full-ride offers! An Arkansas student has gotten accepted to more than 50 colleges, received 5 full rides and earned over $1.3 million in scholarship offers. Toriona Coakes is a senior at Stuttgart High School in Arkansas. Recently, the star student took to social media to share her accomplishments, revealing she had been […]
Janice Pettyjohn Becomes First Woman Hired For Full-Time Football Position At Howard University
She’s only 22 years old! Janice Pettyjohn has made history as the first woman to be hired for a full-time football position at Howard University, Burlington County Times reports. Pettyjohn’s love for arts has always taken precedence since health issues prevented her from playing youth sports as a child. But as she got older and […]
Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed As First Black Woman On U.S. Supreme Court
It’s a historic day! Ketanji Brown Jackson was just confirmed as the first Black woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, CNN reports. The Senate has officially confirmed Judge Jackson as the next Supreme Court Justice, a historic moment as Jackson becomes the first Black woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court, […]
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 […]