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24-Year-Old Ghanaian Woman Develops App for Autistic Children

24-Year-Old Ghanaian Woman Develops App for Autistic Children

by Face2Face Africa | Jun 1, 2016 | Business, Positivity

Living with autism in Ghana has just been made more bearable since HopeSetters, an autism center, came out with a locally configured autism app that helps children with autism receive better education. The privately funded center is the very first in Sub-Saharan...
Centuries-Old Artifacts Discovered Beneath Malcolm X’s Childhood Home, the Roxbury House

Centuries-Old Artifacts Discovered Beneath Malcolm X’s Childhood Home, the Roxbury House

by Freddie Ra | Jun 1, 2016 | Celebrities

The legend of Malcolm X and insight into his past continue to mystify the world. Fortunately, it gained a bit of a boost recently as artifacts from his childhood have been discovered beneath his childhood home. The home, located at 72 Dale Street, Boston MA, was...
Carter G. Woodson Launched a Scholarly Repository of Research on Black History Used By Students Throughout the World

Carter G. Woodson Launched a Scholarly Repository of Research on Black History Used By Students Throughout the World

by Freddie Ra | Jun 1, 2016 | Profiles in Black History

Carter Godwin Woodson, the father of “Black History,” was born on December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia. Despite the pioneering efforts of many Black writers and scholars, the systematic treatment of Black history was not achieved until 1915 when...
New York Jets Give Contract to Joe Anderson, Who Held a Sign Outside Texans Stadium Hoping to Get a Chance in the NFL

New York Jets Give Contract to Joe Anderson, Who Held a Sign Outside Texans Stadium Hoping to Get a Chance in the NFL

by Freddie Ra | May 31, 2016 | Celebrities

The world loves go-getters! The people who don’t allow their negative circumstances or temporary set backs defeat them. The world gives those people a chance to prove themselves and this narrative fits Joe Anderson. Six weeks back, Anderson, who is 27 years old,...
‘I Am Cait’ Is Officially Banned in Africa Due to Differing Views of the African People

‘I Am Cait’ Is Officially Banned in Africa Due to Differing Views of the African People

by Freddie Ra | May 31, 2016 | Celebrities

In America, everyone is familiar, for the better or worse, with Cait Jenner. The once male, super athlete and Olympian, Bruce Jenner, decided to make the change to a female and calls herself Cait. She went through with the operations last year to make it official. As...
Conscious Teen Escorted Out of Graduation for Wearing Kente Cloth

Conscious Teen Escorted Out of Graduation for Wearing Kente Cloth

by Candace | May 31, 2016 | Culture

Eighteen year old, Nyree Holmes, an African American Cosumnes Oaks High School student was escorted out by three Sacramento County Sheriffs during his graduation ceremony for wearing a Kente cloth over his robe for his graduation. Holmes explained the importance of...
Young African Mathematicians, Scientists to Receive $10,000 Cash Prize for Further Education

Young African Mathematicians, Scientists to Receive $10,000 Cash Prize for Further Education

by Face2Face Africa | May 31, 2016 | Africa

Young African mathematicians and scientists currently studying for their Masters degree programme at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) will henceforth be entitled to winning a $10,000 cash prize. The prize is donated by the 2016 winner of the...
365 Black History: May 31st – Black Wall Street Bombed by Airplane, Race Riot Erupts, Legislation Enacted, & NAACP’s First Conference

365 Black History: May 31st – Black Wall Street Bombed by Airplane, Race Riot Erupts, Legislation Enacted, & NAACP’s First Conference

by Freddie Ra | May 31, 2016 | Black 365

The 365 Black History serious is designed to give our community a chance to learn and appreciate the achievement, struggles and experience of our ancestors, inventors, business people, scientific, educators, children and more. On May 31st in Black History 1870 –...
Whitney Moore Young Fought for Civil Rights and Anti-Poverty Programs, Even Help Lead the March on Washington

Whitney Moore Young Fought for Civil Rights and Anti-Poverty Programs, Even Help Lead the March on Washington

by Freddie Ra | May 31, 2016 | Profiles in Black History

A civil rights leader who urged African Americans to work within the system, Whitney Moore Young, as executive director of the National Urban League from 1961 to 1971, played a leading role in persuading America’s corporate elite to provide better opportunities...
Africa Produces 75% of Cocoa And Only Get’s 2% Of A $100 Billion Industry…

Africa Produces 75% of Cocoa And Only Get’s 2% Of A $100 Billion Industry…

by Forest Parks | May 31, 2016 | Africa

Ok, I am no mathematical genius, far from it, but I can do my simple sums. So, if Africa produces 75% of the world’s cocoa then surely this great continent should be flowing with the riches, with somewhere around 75% of the revenue of the chocolate industry...
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