Here Are Our Top 8 Because Of Them We Can Moments Of 2018
This year, we continued to use our platform to highlight Black history, excellence, positive news and feel good stories. As we remain committed to this task going into the new year, we’d like to reflect on our top 8 Because of Them We Can moments of 2018. Check them out below. 1. We kicked off Black History Month […]
An Inspiring Act Of Kindness: This Elementary School Bus Driver Purchased Christmas Gifts For Every Kid On His Bus Route
Photo via: Facebook/ Lake Highlands Elementary Kind-hearted Texas elementary school bus driver, Curtis Jenkins, has been buying small gifts for children who ride his bus for years. To mark his seventh year driving for the Richardson Independent School District this year, he decided to do something bigger and purchased each child on his route a […]
After Making History At A Harvard Debate Competition, This High School Senior Will Be Returning To The Ivy League As A Student
Photo via: Osazi Al Khaliq Do you remember the 25 Atlanta students who made history over the summer when they returned home as champions after competing in the Harvard Debate Council’s annual residency? Well now one of them will be returning to the Ivy League as a student with a full scholarship. Osazi Al-Khaliq, an inaugural member of the […]
Serena Williams Voted AP Female Athlete Of The Year For Her Resilience In On-Court Comeback
Photo by: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) This year, Serena Williams returned to playing professional tennis less than a year after experiencing life-threatening medical problems after giving birth to her daughter Olympia in September of 2017. For her incredible resilience, the Associated Press has named the 23-time Grand Slam champion its Female Athlete of the Year for […]
At 105, Azellia White Reflects On Making History As The First Black Female Pilot In Texas
Photo via: ABC 13 In 1946, Azellia White became the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license in the state of Texas. After marrying mechanic, Hulon “Pappy” White, they relocated from Texas to Tuskegee, Alabama where he provided service to the iconic Tuskegee Airmen. Her curiosity around learning to fly soon blossomed into a […]
Meet The Young Entrepreneur Who Quit Her Wall Street Job To Teach Underprivileged Youth About Financial Literacy
Photo courtesy Ashley Fox Ashley Fox is an entrepreneur and former Wall Street analyst who quit her six-figure job to educate individuals about financial success through her organization Empify. Merging the words “empower” and “modify,” Fox came up with the concept of Empify in 2013 after being bored with her day job and wanting to […]
10 Photos That Show Just How Much Michelle Obama Inspires Young Girls Who Look Like Her
Photo credit: Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Can Michelle Obama be any more inspiring? With the release of her memoir “Becoming,” our Forever First Lady has become even more of an inspiration – especially to young girls who look like her. Here are a few photos to prove it. 1. “She just told me that one day she will become […]
California Freeway Officially Renamed ‘President Barack H. Obama Highway’
It’s official! A section of a Southern California freeway has been renamed after the first African American President of the United States. The new “President Barack H. Obama Highway” signage went up on Thursday on State Route 134, covering a stretch that goes from State Route 2 in Glendale, through the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, to Interstate 210 […]
Hidden No More: Street Outside Of NASA’s Headquarters To Be Renamed ‘Hidden Figures Way’
Photo courtesy of NASA The Washington, D.C. city council has voted to rename a street outside of NASA’s headquarters “Hidden Figures Way.” The group unanimously decided that the street should be renamed in honor of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson who each courageously served NASA as “human computers” in the segregated south during […]
A Rosa Parks Biopic Is Coming To The Big Screen, Production Set To Start In 2019
Photo credit: Troy Glasgow/AP Winter State Entertainment has recently announced that a feature biopic about civil rights icon Rosa Parks is set to go into production in 2019. While there have been other movies made about the courageous seamstress who refused give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus […]