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Gil Scott-Heron, ‘godfather of rap’ who lives on despite years lost to drug addiction
Although Gil Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949 to mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, an opera singer and father, Gil Heron, it was his maternal grandmother, Miss Lily, in Tennessee who raised him and imbibed...
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St. Elmo Brady, the pioneering chemist who made a difference at Tuskegee, other HBCUs
St. Elmo Brady was the first African American to obtain a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States but beyond that, he built chemistry curricula, faculty, programs and facilities at four major historically...
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From star sprinter to street sweeper, meet Jackie’s forgotten brother Mack Robinson
You know Jackie Robinson, the baseball and civil rights great. You might have however missed the formidable story of his older brother Matthew Mackenzie Robinson, affectionately called Mack Robinson. Born...
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Raphael Armattoe, Ghana’s 1949 Nobel Peace Prize nominee whose disease cure guide saved millions
Dr. Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe died relatively young at 40. Despite his quick exit, he still left behind a commendable body of work. He was a Ghanaian medical doctor, author and politician and trained...
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‘This is not America, it’s London’ – UK mom fumes as police arrest 12-year-old son over a toy gun
All it took was for a passerby to call the police reporting that he had seen a “black male holding a firearm on the sofa” through half-drawn blinds for officers from the Metropolitan Police...
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Atlanta mother charged with murder for intentionally killing 3-year-old daughter in a crash
An Atlanta woman has intentionally rammed her car into a vehicle carrying her three-month-old daughter, killing her in the process and injuring the child’s father, the police confirmed. The man who...
