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Jesse L. Douglas: Remembering MLK’s close aide whose demise in 2021 has now been confirmed
Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, a close aide to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., passed away in 2021 at age 90. His daughter, Adrienne Douglas Vaulx, said he died in a nursing home in Charlotte, North Carolina,...
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Meet Chantel Francis, whose beauty supply vending machine for Black college students is taking over campuses
Bronx native Chantel Francis built her beauty supply vending machine business from the ground up to solve a problem she once experienced before graduating from State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport...
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This woman’s new video game allows you to take back African artifacts from Western museums
A new South African video game lets players reclaim looted African artifacts from Western museums through digital heists. Relooted, unveiled at the Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles earlier in June by Johannesburg-based...
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Mackenzie Scott donates record $42 million to Bay Area nonprofit for students of color
As part of her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has offered a $42 million grant to California-based education nonprofit 10,000 Degrees. The nonprofit...
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Solid in her own right, Coco Gauff’s grandmom was first Black student to attend an all-white school in Delray
At the same age that tennis star Coco Gauff turned pro, her maternal grandmother Yvonne Lee Odom was making history, desegregating Palm Beach County schools as a student. In 1961, while preparing to captain...
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Central African Republic: Ghana officer makes history as first woman to command UN parade
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Alison Raji Atuluk, an officer of the Ghana Police Service, has been awarded by the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central...
