Melissa Noel
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Kentucky Governor Makes Juneteenth A State Holiday, Bans Hair Discrimination
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has signed executive orders establishing Juneteenth as an official executive branch holiday and enacting protections against discrimination based on natural hairstyles,...
Millicent Brown Helped Desegregate Public Schools In South Carolina. Now She’s Sharing Her Civil Rights Journey In A New Book
The U.S. Supreme Court declared that legal racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional through Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. However, despite this ruling, public schools took years to integrate. In South...
Kenyan Government Partners With HBCUs To Boost STEM Education Across Borders
The President of Kenya , Dr. William Samoei Ruto, visited Spelman College in Atlanta last week to solidify partnerships between HBCUs and Kenyan scholars. During...
From Flight Attendant To Founder: Meet The Woman Who Started A Company To Make Airport Travel More Accessible To Everyone
Veronica Woodruff went from flight attendant to founder when she started the innovative tech travel company Travelsist, which provides on-demand airport assistance to people who...
Historic Win: First Black Filipino Woman Crowned Miss Universe Philippines
Filipino American Chelsea Manalo made history on Wednesday by becoming the first Black woman to be crowned Miss Universe Philippines. Born to a Filipino mother...
Sean Kingston And His Mother Arrested On Fraud, Theft Charges After Raid Of Florida Mansion
45 Rapper Sean Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, have been arrested on multiple fraud and theft charges following a SWAT team raid on Kingston’s...
For The First Time A Black Woman Has Been Elected President Of The SEIU, America’s Second Largest Union
For over one hundred years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been advocating on behalf of their 2 million members, who work in the...
Marilyn Mosby Avoids Prison Time, Sentenced To One Year Of Home Confinement For Fraud And Perjury Convictions
Baltimore’s former top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, was sentenced Thursday to a year of home confinement, followed by two years of supervised release for federal convictions...
“Use The Power That We Have”: Reigning US Open Champ Coco Gauff Calls On Young People To Vote
Coco Gauff is many things: the reigning U.S. Open champion, a Paris Olympics-bound athlete, and currently one of the highest-paid female athletes on the globe. But as the...
Venus Williams Celebrated With Her Own Barbie Doll In Mattel’s Latest Campaign
Legendary tennis player Venus Williams has been immortalized as a Barbie doll as Barbie continues to celebrate its 65th anniversary. The special edition role model...