Serena Williams, one of the greatest tennis players of all time broke the internet world. Not about the sports but with her charitable works. Yes! You heard it right, the tennis champion was working! She builds schools in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Jamaica with her charity. Some celebrities may simply write a check towards a …
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The popular wedding-planning sites Pinterest and The Knot announced they are no longer promoting content for “plantation”-style weddings. A Pinterest spokesperson told ABC News that Weddings should be a symbol of love and unity. Plantations represent none of those things. The company said it’s “working to limit the distribution of this content and accounts across …
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11-Year-Old Charlotte Nebres is making her ancestors proud and making History as she is staring as Marie, the young heroine of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at New York City Ballet. It opened on Friday and she is now officially the first Black lead of this ballet for this renowned company. The Root wrote: The Madison, …
This intruder “picked the wrong house to break into” after he got beat up by the Rochester, NY, occupant, Willie Murphy, an 82-year-old woman Body Builder. This amazing lady is an inspiration, not that we condone violence but DAMN! She beat him with a table, a broom and a bottle of baby shampoo! The intruder …
Rwanda has taken a step further in cementing itself into a regional tech hub and strengthening Africa’s stake in the global economy by launching the first every smartphone completely manufactured in Africa. The phone, by Rwanda’s Mara Group, was announced by Rwanda President Paul Kagame whilst announcing Africa’s “first high tech smartphone factory,” with parts …
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Here are a few quick lessons I learned from traveling to London last week. You will be very interested to hear my perspective AND I wanna hear your thoughts? So, do you agree? PS. Make sure you enter our contest at UrbanIntellectuals.com/contest for a chance to win over $100 in prizes.
Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in under two hours today in Vienna. He ran the 26.2-mile distance in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds. Just let that soak in, let that soak in that he ran 4:34 minutes per mile for the whole race! WOW! Unfortunately, this will not count as a world …
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We’ve covered the story of how an enslaved man, Nathan ‘Nearest’ Green, actually taught Jack Daniels how to make bourbon. He has been recognized in very small moves as the godfather of Tenessee Whiskey but it is still not mainstream knowledge. However, if you are a JD drinker it may now be time to switch. In …
The British education system conveniently leaves out a lot of its cruelest history and in my personal experience shys away from including any positiv influence from Black people before the 60s. But for many reasons the cold isles of Britain have had Black people wevaed into their history for some time, for good and for …
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It’s big news when a record set by none other than Usain Bolt is broken, especially when it is done so by a woman who gave birth less than a year ago! Of course, it wasn’t his 100m record but this is a HUGE feat none the less and oozes #BlackGirlMagic! Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix …
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