Little Girl Shares Same Birthday With Michelle Obama, Celebrates By Paying Homage To Our Forever First Lady
Photo: Jennifer Gonzalez For one little girl, when you share the same birthday as Michelle Obama, it’s only right that you do a photo shoot inspired by the Forever First Lady herself. And that’s exactly what 6-year-old Bella did to celebrate “their” special day. With an image of Amy Sherald’s official portrait of Mrs. Obama in […]
Welcome to Muhammad Ali Airport: ‘The Greatest’ to Have Airport in Kentucky Hometown Renamed in His Honor
Photo: Neil Leifer Now, when you fly to Louisville, Kentucky, you’ll be arriving at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. On Wednesday, the Louisville Regional Airport Authority’s board voted to rename the airport to honor one of its hometown heroes, the great Muhammad Ali. The news was announced a day before Ali would have turned 77 years old. He was […]
After ‘Becoming’ Michelle Obama, Our Forever First Lady Wrote A Letter To Her Younger Self
Photo: Getty Images Michelle Lavaughn Robinson went from a girl of the South Side to the first African American First Lady of the United States. In her memoir “Becoming” (which is now a record-breaking best-seller), Mrs. Obama takes readers on a journey from her childhood all the way to post White House. After releasing it in […]
Juliana Stratton Gets Sworn in as Illinois’ First Black Lieutenant Governor
Photo via: Julianna Stratton On Monday, Juliana Stratton was officially sworn in as the first Black Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Stratton also became Illinois’ third consecutive woman lieutenant governor and the nation’s fourth African American woman to hold a lieutenant governorship. Inserted inside the Bible she used to take the oath of office was Stratton’s family […]
Barbara Gardner Proctor Was The First Black Woman To Own An Ad Agency
Photo: WTTW News Barbara Gardner Proctor blazed her own trail in 1970 when she launched her own business and became the first Black woman to own an advertising agency. Despite being born to a 16-year-old single mother in North Carolina and raised by her grandparents in a dirt-floor shack that had neither running water nor electricity, Proctor was never […]
Misty Copeland and Calvin Royal III Will Be The First Black Couple to Dance Lead Roles For The American Ballet Theatre
Photo: Rebecca Miller/Disney Enterprises In 2015, Misty Copeland made history twice when she became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre (ABT), and along with Brooklyn Mack, the first Black couple to play the lead roles in a full-length production of “Swan Lake” at the Washington Ballet. “Beyond my personal goals […]
86-Year-Old Grandma is Living Her Best Life After Losing 120 Pounds by Walking in Her Apartment
Photo via: KSDK It’s never too late to turn your life around. Here’s proof. For Jessica Slaughter, the struggle with her weight started when she was in elementary school. “Even as a kid in Mississippi, I was always the fattest kid in the class. I got teased a lot,” Slaughter told KSDK. “I didn’t know how to […]
Pioneering NASA Mathematician, Katherine Johnson Tells Her Own Story in Upcoming Autobiography
Photo: Daily Press Margot Lee Shetterly told the story of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in her 2016 non-fiction book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.” Then a year later, in 2017, the story was brought to the big screen. Now, it’s Johnson’s turn to […]
After 51 Years, Shelby Jacobs’ Pioneering Work as a NASA Camera Designer is Finally Being Recognized
Photo: Pam Kragen When the unmanned Apollo 6 rocket launched in the spring of 1968, it carried with it a camera that took images in space that had never previously been captured – thanks to the vision and work of Black NASA engineer, Shelby Jacobs. A native of Santa Clarita Valley, California, Jacobs’ early experiences […]
Powerful Video Of 12-Year-Old Sharing How Serena Williams Inspired Her To Play Tennis
Photo via: Melissa Isaacso There’s another tennis player straight outta Compton you should be on the look out for. Her name is Kalli Minor and her biggest inspiration is Serena Williams. From the very moment Kalli first saw Serena play on television at the age of five, she knew that she wanted to play tennis one […]