by Candace | May 21, 2016 | Blog
As most of us know, it is graduation season. Therefore we have a lot of parents that are extremely excited to see their children walk across the stage to receive their diplomas or degrees as they get ready to transition to the next phase of their lives. Now imagine...
by Candace | May 20, 2016 | Blog, Did You Know, Positivity
Over a century since slavery was abolished, an African-American museum is rising as the last museum to be built on Washington DC’s National Mall. While the leader of the project is David Adjaye a Tanzanian born architect that works out of London and New York City, the...
by Candace | May 20, 2016 | Positivity
Living in some low-income areas of St. Louis can mean that you don’t have easy access to grocery stores, meaning you may get stuck eating an unhealthy amount processed food. So in comes Turnip1 a bus donated by the St. Louis’ transit department and operated by Metro...
by Candace | May 18, 2016 | Blog
A lot of us remember the “Bring Back Our Girls” movement that was started when Boko Haram kidnapped over 250 Nigerian school girls in 2014. Well according to a Bring Back Our Girls activist from Nigeria, one has been reunited with her family. It has suspected for...
by Candace | May 18, 2016 | Blog
First they announce the Black Panther movie starting Chadwick Boseman, a black superhero. Then they announced that Michael B. Jordan from Creed would also be in the movie and let’s not forget the lovely Lupita Nyong’o is also a part of this all-star cast. What’s...
by Candace | May 17, 2016 | Blog
British Prime Minister David Cameron’s upcoming visit to the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica has sparked a renewed call by Jamaican professors and politicians that the United Kingdom should pay reparations for slavery. The chairman of the Caribbean Caricom...
by Candace | May 16, 2016 | Did You Know
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry made it big as Stepin Fetchit. The African-American actor was one of the few black faces in the American Television. He portrayed himself as a lazy, humorous guy and was later tagged as the “Laziest guy in the world”....
by Candace | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Positivity
Shonda and Shalisha Witherspoon, identical twin sisters recently graduated from Florida International University on May 10th. The sisters aged 25, completed their Bachelor of Science degrees at FUI’s College of Engineering and Computer Science in the IT sector...
by Candace | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Celebrities, Positivity
Snoop Dogg’s son, Cordell Broadus, is changing the world one charitable event at a time. He is the founder of Revolt of the Youth charitable foundation which seeks to help underprivileged youth in the society. Charity has always been a passion for him since he...
by Candace | May 16, 2016 | Positivity
Howard graduates had a lot to be proud of at their graduation ceremony. However, the emphasis was not on the 96 graduating medical students, all focus was on an exemplary list of 46 Nigerian graduates. Out of the 96 candidates, 46 were Nigerian and out of the 27...
