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“I’m going to kill you” – Wisconsin man tells black cop
A 44-year-old Wisconsin man, James Schultz, has been charged with disorderly conduct and battery after threatening an African-American law enforcement officer. Schultz was arrested on February 24 for repetitively...
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Jayda Washington-Boothe: 12-yr-old Jamaican-Bahamian scoops 2020 NASA scholarship
Jayda Washington-Boothe is a 12-year-old Jamaican-Bahamian recipient of the 2020 NASA Rocket and Space Center Scholarship for Robotics. Washington-Boothe won the scholarship after completing a rigorous...
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Defying the odds, Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall rose from humble beginnings, overcame America’s flagrant racial discrimination and became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. That was on August 30, 1967. Before becoming...
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Emmerson Buie Jr. becomes Chicago’s first African-American FBI special agent
Emmerson Buie Jr. is the first African-American Special Agent in charge of the FBI’s Chicago Field Office. Buie Jr. was appointed into the new role four months ago by FBI Director Christopher Wray....
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Remembering Samuel Jesse Battle; the first African-American NYPD police officer
Samuel Jesse Battle was the first African American police officer in the New York Police Department (NYPD). Born on January 16, 1883, in New Bern, North Carolina, Battle was sworn in on March 6, 1911,...
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This Guyanese developer invents facial recognition system that unlocks doors
Sean Singh is a Guyanese tech developer whose breathtaking invention – facial recognition system – unlocks doors. A graduate of the University of Guyana, Singh began working on a prototype...
