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Father beats daughter, 7, to death for failing to do homework
A father in Uganda has beaten his daughter to death for failing to do her homework, according to local reports. The man, a bricklayer in Kawempe, an area in the city of Kampala, Uganda’s capital...
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Meet the Nigerian who designed the country’s first Bitcoin ATM
Daniel Adekunle Omoshola has designed Nigeria’s first Bitcoin ATM that is already operating in Lagos. Through his company Blockstale, Nigeria’s first BTM has been deployed. The machine has...
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From an ‘Overdraft Queen’, Sonia Lewis is now a student loan doctor
Sonia Lewis, otherwise known as the “Student Loan Doctor” is the founder of the first black and woman-owned student loan debt repayment company in the U.S. Lewis came into the limelight in...
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From a sharecropper’s farm, William Banks founded the first black-owned TV station in the U.S.
William Venoid Banks was the first African American to own and operate a television and radio station in the United States. He had a dream to project the values and culture of African Americans on the...
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John M. Langston, the abolitionist who was as famous as his political nemesis, Frederick Douglass
John Mercer Langston is one of the five African Americans elected officeholders prior to 1867. He was elected to public office as the clerk of Brownhelm, Ohio. He was an abolitionist, a lawyer,...
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From an imprisoned drug dealer to an award-winning celebrity chef, the story of Jeff Henderson
Jeff Henderson, popularly called Chef Jeff, moved from prison to become award-winning and the most inspirational African-American chef, a bestselling author, a TV host, and a public speaker. He is the...
