Meet 12-Year-Old Cahree Myrick, Baltimore’s First Ever National Youth Chess Champion
Photo credit: Amy Davis/ Baltimore Sun, Pictured: Cahree Myrick playing chess with his younger brother, Lohgan Spears (left). There’s a new king of chess in town and he’s already made history. About two weeks ago, 12-year-old Cahree Myrick beat out 249 players from 28 states to become Baltimore’s first ever individual national youth chess champion. The 7th […]
Inspiring Father-Son Duo Graduate From The Same College Together
Photo Courtesy of William Paterson University This time last week, 27-year-old Benjamin Jeanty and his 63-year-old father Duvinson shared a special father-son moment that they’ll probably never forget. They both received their degree from New Jersey’s William Paterson University and together, became the first in their family to graduate from college. Benjamin’s father, who […]
Serena Williams Joins Silicon Valley Board To Help Improve Diversity In The Tech Industry
Whether she’s dominating the world of tennis, advocating for equal pay for women in sports, or winning a record-breaking 23rd grand slam singles title while eight weeks pregnant, Serena Williams has shown time and time again that she’s always up for a challenge. Now, she’s accepted a new one in Silicon Valley. As announced by online poll-taking service SurveyMonkey […]
Yara Shahidi’s ‘Black-ish’ Spin-Off Just Got The Green Light From Freeform
Photo credit: Richard Harbaugh/Getty Images It looks like “Black-ish” is officially going to college! On Friday, it was announced that ABC’s “Black-ish” college spin-off starring Yara Shahidi has received the green light from Freeform. The Disney-owned network, formerly known as ABC Family, has ordered 13 episodes of Shahidi’s new show, tentatively being called “College-ish”. The series, set to give […]
Twitter Might Have Just Helped This Talented High Schooler Land A Major Opportunity With ‘Get Out’ Director Jordan Peele
Never be afraid to create and share your own work; you never know who’s watching. In Isaiah Howard’s case, it happened to be filmmaker and former NFL player, Matthew Cherry, who saw one of Isaiah’s videos that he created on his phone with a lip-syncing app called musical.ly. Like thousands upon thousands of social […]
Black Excellence: 23 H.S. Seniors Receive College Certificate Before Graduating High School
Photo courtesy of Delgado Community College The class of 2017 just keeps getting better! On Tuesday, 23 male seniors from New Orleans’ Warren Easton Charter High School earned a certificate of technical studies in residential electricity from Delgado Community College. 16 of the 23 seniors graduated as members of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society, an international honor society for […]
Stella Meghie: The Director Behind All The Black Girl Magic In ‘Everything, Everything’
Photo credit: Paras Griffin, from left to right: Anika Noni Rose, Stella Meghie, and Amandla Stenberg You know a movie is really good when you watch it twice and enjoy it just as much as the first time. Plus, there is something simply magical about a film based on a book written by a Black woman, […]
NFL Wide Receiver Andrew Hawkins Graduates From Columbia University With 4.0 GPA
Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver, Andrew Hawkins just became one step closer to achieving his dream of becoming an NFL general manager. Since the spring of 2015, Hawkins has boarded a plane faithfully every week to attend graduate school at Columbia University in New York City. He was traveling from Tampa, Florida to the big apple, […]
It’s Official: 14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Is Now The Youngest Texas Christian University Graduate
Photo credit: Louis Deluca/The Dallas Morning News/ AP 14-year-old Carson Huey-You just went from Texas Christian University’s youngest student to its youngest graduate. Over the weekend, Carson walked across the stage at the Fort Worth college to receive his bachelor’s degree in physics and officially became the youngest person to graduate from Texas Christian University (TCU). Carson […]
15-Year-Old Founder Of Mo’s Bows Lands Big Partnership Deal With NBA
15-year-old Moziah Bridges, CEO and founder of a successful bow tie company called Mo’s Bows, just got a huge new client: The National Basketball Association. The Memphis teen recently signed a seven-figure licensing deal with the NBA that will allow him to mass produce his bow ties with NBA logos. This isn’t the first time […]