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For many people, the coping mechanism for chronic pain would be their reliance on medication, but artist, Alum Kemahee Baker, channeled the bouts of incessant chronic pain into art that celebrated her black heritage. She never imagined she would be involved in a car accident, but when she was, it left her with a piercing…
In 2010 when white baby Nmachi Ihegboro with blonde hair and blue eyes was born to a Black...
Tyler Perry is a household name in Hollywood and his success tells the story of rags to riches....
Destiny Snow realized she wanted to be an entrepreneur at a young age. She launched her SnowGlam...
An Ouachita Parish Junior High School secretary “is no longer” an employee of the district...
Former NCAA and NFL football player Justin Crawford has been sentenced to 12 years in prison...
Jay-Z is probably the busiest Black entrepreneur in the market, making one deal after another....
Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia of the Catholic Diocese of Gboko has made history as the second...
With the global complaints about some activities of tech companies that are detrimental to...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has remained the most exciting and undoubtedly the...
“A world where a mother has to choose between medications for her health or education for...
The Segou Kingdom may not be as popular in the history books as the Songhai Empire of the Sahel region, but they ruled the ancient Central Sudan territory (present-day southern Mali) with great power and splendor back in the 17th century. Emerging as a power bloc in the mid-1600s, they expanded their influence through wars…
The Akofena or Akrafena sword is of Ashanti origin from the people of the West African nation...
In parts of South Sudan, a girl’s worth is tied to the number of cattle demanded from the...
Adamorobe, a village in the West African nation of Ghana, is known as the ‘deaf community’...
There are many identifiable recreational centers and landmarks that have been named Tivoli, but there is one that many Jamaicans identify with, Tivoli Gardens. Its foundations were laid in the early 1960s by the Ministry of Housing and the West Kingston Trust after the squalid Black-O-Wall was pulled down. The authorities may have had a…
He may not be in the brackets of the firsts, but this did not hold back Dr. Warren Washington...
The professional life of Yannick Noah changed the day he was spotted by Arthur Ashe at a tennis...
The Invisible Man was the only novel Ralph Ellison ever wrote, but despite this one-time release,...
For many people, the coping mechanism for chronic pain would be their reliance on medication, but artist, Alum Kemahee Baker, channeled the bouts of incessant chronic pain into art that celebrated her black heritage. She never imagined she would be involved in a car accident, but when she was, it left her with a piercing…
The world is witnessing an unprecedented increase in the number of African women who are picking...
She identifies herself as a bionic model and singer. Exhibiting her beauty to the world has...
Kimberly Clarice Aiken Cockerham was just 18 years old when she won the coveted crown for Miss...
Veteran American shoe designer, Dr. D’Wayne Edwards, has launched the first-ever black-owned footwear and shoe factory called, Jan Ernst Matzeliger Studio (JEMS). The name of the factory has historical significance, according to Because of Them We Can, it was named after the black inventor who revolutionized shoe manufacturing with his 1883 patent for the ‘lasting…
Mother, Danielle Pasha, and her 17-year-old daughter, Samiah, from Augusta, Georgia, are the...
American professional model, media personality, producer, actress, and businesswoman, Tyra...
In 2012, Jay-Z partnered with liquor behemoth Bacardi to launch a cognac brand called “D’Ussé.”...
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