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Faces of Black Excellence
5 thought-provoking books written by Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah you need to read
Today marks the 114th birthday of the foremost Pan-Africanist and first president of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Born to Kofi Ngonloma of the Asona Clan and Elizabeth Nyanibah of the Anona Clan at Nkroful in the Western Region of what was then known as the Gold Coast, Nkrumah led the West African nation to…
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Meet Kwaku Boakye Gyamfi, who just became one of the youngest medical doctors in Ghana at 22
Ghanaian man Kwaku Boakye Gyamfi has been praised for graduating from the School of Medical...
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Amo, son of Ghanaian and Liberian immigrants, could become Rhode Island’s first person of color in Congress
There is a new dawn on the horizon for people of color in Rhode Island after Gabe Amo secured...
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Tonye Solomon is latest Nigerian to set Guinness World Record
Tonye Solomon, a Nigerian from Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, has set a record for the most steps...
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Two Nigerian girls invent award-winning device that purifies polluted water for safe drinking
Two Nigerian students, Elizabeth Korolo Boluwatife and Abdulsalam Ajara, are blazing a trail with a device they invented aimed at purifying and reusing polluted water, providing safe drinking water for...
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After earning three degrees, this 16-year-old is now America’s youngest full-time salaried teacher
Shania Muhammad from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is now America’s youngest full-time salaried teacher at age 16. Muhammad, who holds three degrees, is teaching the third grade at a school in her hometown,...
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15-year-old Florida student makes history jumping from 9th grade to 12th grade
Janiya Baker, a 15-year-old student at Homestead High School, has jumped from 9th grade to 12th grade in just one year, the first to do so in Miami-Dade County. This week, it was announced that Baker will...
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Meet the Geneus family of Haitian origin who are all doctors
Vladimir, Christian, and Olivia Geneus are siblings from Boston, Massachusetts, who are all doctors. Interestingly, their parents, Jacques and Chantal Geneus are also medical doctors. Jacques and Chantal...
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17-year-old on track to earn her teaching degree by age 19
Hannah Pearson is just 17, and already her goal is to become a licensed teacher for the State of North Carolina by the age of 19. Pearson graduated from Robeson Community College with an associate of arts...
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Nigerian on creating portraits from waste: ‘I found that nobody does this pattern of art’
His favorite celebrities he sculptures with his recycled waste include American rapper Cardi B, award-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Nigerian music label founder Don Jazzy. Nigerian...
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After a life-threatening experience, father creates app to help people find shelters during a tornado
Robert Washington has created a storm shelter app called Shelter Share in order to ensure that no one else had to go through the terrifying shelter-in-place experience he had in 2015 with his newborn daughter...
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How self-taught chef Bryant Williams, who cooks for Cardi B, rose from homeless to millionaire
He has been in the hospitality industry for over a decade. But, in all these years, his knowledge of the variety of cuisine was self-taught. At around 8 years old, chef Bryant Williams, also known as Chef...
