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Faces of Black Excellence
Meet SC State’s first mechatronics engineering graduate who is now at Boeing
In 2020 when Omar Shaheed III graduated from Berkeley High School, he initially enrolled in South Carolina State’s electrical engineering technology program. But when Dr. Hasanul A. Basher, professor and chairman of SC State’s Department of Engineering Technology, later asked him if he was interested in studying for the mechatronics engineering degree, Shaheed went along with…
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How this Jamaican lived illegally in U.S. for years, found citizenship in the Army and became a doctor
In 1989, Lincoln Coffie was living with a foster family while a senior in high school in Jamaica....
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Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician who helped design GPS technology, dies aged 95
Dr. Gladys West, the trailblazing mathematician who played a pivotal role in birthing Global...
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Claudette Colvin, renowned civil rights activist who refused to give up bus seat to White woman, dies aged 86
Claudette Colvin, the American civil rights pioneer who first refused to give up her seat on...
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DMX to be ordained posthumously as minister at historic church with Underground Railroad ties
DMX never shied away from preaching the gospel while he was alive. At a certain point, he even expressed his desire to become a pastor, saying that it was “definitely the final destination”...
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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...
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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 to be elected president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association (LCCSA), a practitioner group...
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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 & Barbuda Youth Symphony Orchestra, where she got to know that the founder of the orchestra was Antigua’s...
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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 example of how hope and higher education can totally change someone’s life. He went from a maximum-security...
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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,...
