Mrs. Rosa Parks Day: Alabama Designates Holiday To Honor The Mother Of The Civil Rights Movement
Photo via: History.com In December of 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks’ act of civil disobedience sparked the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, where African Americans refused to ride Alabama city buses for 381 days. It went on to become […]
Rest In Power: Remembering Linda Brown Of The Landmark Brown v. Board Of Education Case
Photo credit: Carl Iwaski/ Getty Images On Sunday, March 25, Linda Brown of the Brown v. Board of Education case passed away at the age of 76. Brown was only 12 years old when she became the pioneering plaintiff in the 1954 Supreme Court case that ultimately led to the desegregation of public schools in […]
‘Black Panther’ Is Now The Highest-Grossing Superhero Movie Of All Time In the U.S.
Photo via: Getty Images Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” is officially the highest-grossing superhero movie of all time in the United States. It only took the box office phenomenon 36 days to reach such a milestone. In its sixth weekend of release, “Black Panther” dethroned its fellow Marvel title “The Avengers’” $623.4 million domestic box office gross by bringing […]
Virgil Abloh Becomes Louis Vuitton’s First Black Artistic Director
For the first time in its over 160-year-history, Louis Vuitton has a Black artistic director. The French luxury brand announced the appointment of Virgil Abloh as its new artistic director of menswear on Monday morning. .@VirgilAbloh joins #LouisVuitton Louis Vuitton is delighted to welcome Virgil Abloh as its new Men’s Artistic Director. His first show will take place […]
NFL Player Marshawn Lynch Helps Encourage The Next Generation Of Innovators With ‘BeastCode’ Event
Photo via: StreetCode Academy When you hear the nickname “BeastMode,” you may think of NFL player, Marshawn Lynch. However, Lynch’s entrepreneurial and philanthropic efforts have proven him to be much more than simply a talented athlete. He recently partnered with StreetCode Academy, an organization that provides free technology classes to kids, to […]
All The Feels: 6-Year-Old Overcome With Emotion Watching His Mother Walk Down The Aisle
All photos by Paul Woo, @wanderingwoo On September 4, 2016, photographer Paul Woo captured a heartwarming photo of 6-year-old Bryson Suber breaking down in tears after watching his mother walk down the aisle to marry his father. Although taken almost two years ago, the sweet photo of then 5-year-old Bryson is currently melting the internet’s heart. “I […]
9-Year-Old Entrepreneur Opens A Coffee Shop That Employs People With Special Needs
Photo via: @camscoffeecreations At birth, Camden Myers suffered a traumatic brain injury and as a result has experienced some developmental and social challenges during his short nine years of life. His own personal challenges coupled with his entrepreneurial spirit led him to create “Cam’s Coffee Creations,” a coffee shop business with a goal of […]
Black Panther’s Dora Milaje Are Getting Their Own Comic Spin-Off
Photo credit: Marvel Studios 2018 If you’ve seen Marvel’s latest film “Black Panther” then you know just how important the devoted female warriors, known as the Dora Milaje, are to servicing their king, T’Challa. But in the new comic, “Wakanda Forever: The Amazing Spider-Man,” sci-fi and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor will showcase the trio in […]
Howard University Students Help To Rebuild Puerto Rico For Alternative Spring Break Program
Photo credit: Tatyana Hopkins/NNPA Six months ago, Hurricane Maria struck through Puerto Rico and wiped out thousands of homes, leaving residents without power and limited access to clean water. As the island continues to recover, students from Howard University have taken matters into their own hands by helping to restore a sense of normalcy to […]
Ava DuVernay And Ryan Coogler Make Box Office History Together
Photo credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Over the weekend, “Black Panther” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” directed by Ryan Coogler and Ava DuVernay respectively, snagged the top two spots at the domestic box office. This marked the first time ever that two Black directors with over $100 million budgets held the first two box office spots. “Black Panther” […]