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Faces of Black Excellence
Nigerian self-taught developer, 17, is building a hybrid AI system with just under $2K in funding
Okechukwu Nwaozor had always wondered how Google instantly gives one so many relevant results. That thought attracted him to AI years before he ever thought of building his own AI system. The Nigerian self-taught developer told TechPoint Africa that he joined a Facebook developer group, where he realized that people were creating AI bots that…
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Jason Lartey is now the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association’s first Black male president
Jason Lartey, founder of London-based law firm Lartey & Co, is now the first Black man...
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Meet Antigua’s Resa Nelson, who is now Hofstra University’s 1st Rhodes Scholar and her country’s 2nd
Years ago, Resa Nelson became interested in becoming a Rhodes Scholar after joining the Antigua...
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How Stanley Andrisse went from prison to tenured professor at Howard University and made history
Dr. Stanley Andrisse, a tenured professor at Howard University College of Medicine, is a living...
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Inspired by a snowstorm on college campus, this 24-year-old student built an AI platform for disaster relief
Atlanta native Joel Murchison, a 24-year-old student at Jackson State University, developed a fascination with technology at an early stage of his life. He often discussed robotics with his stepfather,...
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‘Beating a two-time incumbent is huge’: 22-year-old says of becoming Stockbridge’s youngest mayor
An ambitious student has proven that no dream is too big. Jayden Williams first broke ground as the youngest candidate to run for mayor of his hometown, Stockbridge, Georgia. Williams, who was at...
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Meet the Nigerian teen behind new app that turns any website to an AI-enabled platform
Obinna Chimdi started learning programming at age 16. “I started programming with my dad’s mobile phone,” he said to Techpoint Africa. He completed his first project in three months,...
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Bank of England’s chief Afua Kyei named UK’s most influential Black person
The Bank of England’s chief financial officer, Afua Kyei, has been named the UK’s most influential black person, topping a list that includes some of the world’s well-known stars. Kyei,...
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Joseph Caldwell Sr, who ran the first Black-owned company to clean MLB jerseys, dies aged 92
Joseph Caldwell Sr., the pioneering Chicago businessman who ran the first Black-owned company to clean Major League Baseball (MLB) jerseys, passed away last week at the age of 92. Per Block Club Chicago,...
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Kenyan app that turns speech into sign language in real-time wins top award for engineering innovation
A Kenyan entrepreneur behind an app that translates speech into sign language has won Africa’s biggest award for engineering innovation. The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering awarded the 2025...
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Howard University student awarded $5K scholarship for brain repair research
Christopher McGinley, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in biomedical sciences at Howard University College of Medicine, has been named a 2025 recipient of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Antibody Scholarship Award....
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Ghana: At 21, Nana Danquah Adjei Domson becomes youngest person ever called to the Bar
A 21-year-old from the town of Breman Asikuma in Ghana’s Central Region has been called to the Bar, making him the youngest lawyer in the country. Nana Danquah Adjei Domson’s achievement has...
