Ph.D Student Does Maternity and Newborn Photoshoot To Celebrate Dissertation
Why didn’t we all think of this?! According to Good Morning America (GMA), Eve Humphrey, a Florida Ph.D. student decided to have a maternity shoot to celebrate the birth of her new — dissertation. That’s right! After 6 years of labor and delivery, Humphrey finally pushed out her dissertation and anyone who has ever completed a […]
Obama Portrait Artist, Kehinde Wiley, Unveils Statue in Times Square of Modern Black Warrior With Locs
Talk about disrupting the norm! According to the New York Times, artist Kehinde Wiley just unveiled a new statue in Times Square depicting an African American man with locs riding on a horse. The sculpture is the first public work displayed by Wiley, most famously known for his realistic portraits of Black people, including a […]
Atlanta Teacher Becomes First Black Man in Georgia To Win Pre-K Teacher Of The Year
A little sunshine to make you smile today! Johnathon Hines, an Atlanta Pre-K Teacher, just became the first African American man to win Pre-K Teacher of the Year in Georgia. Hines is a teacher at Barack H. Obama Elementary Magnet School of Technology in Atlanta, GA, the first public school in Dekalb County named for […]
Texas Bus Driver Returns To Students’ Bus Stop To Cut The Grass So They Won’t Have To Wait In Weeds
Talk about your friendly neighborhood bus driver! Jerry Martin Jr., a local bus driver with the Copperas Cove Independent School District, is being praised for mowing the lawn of the neighborhood bus stop so the children he picks up won’t have to wait in the weeds. According to KWTX, one day while on his route, […]
Amazon is Bringing Samuel L. Jackson To Alexa
Move on over Alexa! Here comes Samuel L. Jackson! CNN is reporting that our favorite uncle, Samuel L. Jackson, will be the first new celebrity voice used for Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa. You heard us right, you can now tune Alexa out and cue up Samuel Leroy Jackson! Jackson is known as one of Hollywood’s […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates To Be The First Author To Premiere on Oprah’s New Apple TV Plus Series
In case you’re lining up your fall watchlist, we have the perfect new show for you. Variety reports that Oprah’s Book Club has partnered with Apple to bring a new series to Apple TV Plus and the first featured author is none other than the incomparable Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates is a celebrated author who rose […]
Los Angeles Man Travels the Country as Modern Day Superhero To Bring Joy to Sick Kids
Wow! What a huge heart! Yuri Williams travels across the country in superhero costumes with one goal in mind — to bring joy to sick children in the hospital. Hawaii News Now spoke to Williams who said he began his double life as a Superhero to cope with his grief. Williams lost his Mom to […]
Nick Cannon Is Coming to Daytime Television With New Talk Show
The industry’s most famous underdog has done it again! Deadline is reporting that entertainment powerhouse Nick Cannon is teaming up with Lionsgate to host and produce a new daytime talk show. Cannon is one of the few notable figures in entertainment who has literally done it all. He is a comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, […]
Issa Rae Ventures Into Tech World With Investment in Streaming Data Company Owned by a Black Woman
Issa Rae is diversifying her portfolio and partnering up with another Black women to make it happen. Variety announced that the actress is getting into the tech business, acquiring a stake in new Los Angeles based tech startup, Streamlytics. Streamlytics is the brainchild of tech pioneer, Angela Benton. Benton first rose to prominence with BlackWeb […]
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Fellows Announced and it’s Full of Black Excellence
The 2019 MacArthur Fellows have been announced and the list includes five Black trailblazers in their respective fields. They include literary scholar and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, landscape and public artist Walter Hood, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez, urban designer Emmanuel Pratt and artist Cameron Rowland. The MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “genius” grant, is […]