All posts tagged "featured"
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224EducationGoogle Partners With Howard University, Opens Campus in California for Black Coders
Featured Image Credit: Howard University/2015 Commencement About 30 juniors and seniors from Howard University will get the opportunity to participate in a...
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186Celebrity NewsTyra Banks Announces That There’s No Longer An Age Limit To Apply For America’s Next Top Model
America’s Next Top Model, the longest running fashion reality TV series in history, debuted a major makeover when it premiered on a...
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211BLACKAMAZING StoriesIbn Ali Miller: Man Who Stopped Street Fight and Made Teenage Boys Shake Hands Honored in Atlantic City
A video that quickly went viral (March 2016) showed two teenage boys fighting in the street while a crowd surrounded them, laughing...
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174BLACKAMAZING StoriesBeyoncé Makes Surprise FaceTime Call to Ebony Banks, a Houston High School Senior Fighting Rare Stage Four Cancer
Ebony Banks, a Houston high school senior battling a rare stage four cancer, received the biggest surprise ever. According to KHOU, she...
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175CommunityLondon: Lekia Lee Launches #Afrovisibility Billboard Campaign Encouraging Black Girls and Women to Embrace Their Natural Hair
Romford mother Lekia Lee is helping black women gain the confidence to rock their hair naturally, one billboard at a time. She...
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203Black ExperienceBlack History 101 Mobile Museum Celebrates Cultural Achievements Year-Round
Khalid el-Hakim, founder and curator of Black History 101 Mobile Museum is celebrating black history all year long. As noted on the...
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204Celebrity NewsKendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ Among Hip-Hop Albums to be Archived at Harvard University
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly will be archived at Harvard University’s library. As noted by XXLMag, 9th Wonder (record producer/rapper/DJ) made...
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149Black Experience‘Get Out’: Jordan Peele’s Film About Horrors of Racism Earns Perfect Score from Movie Critics
Within its first week, Get Out has already achieved tremendous success. The psychological horror/thriller film is Jason Peele’s feature writing and directing...
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128Celebrity NewsRihanna Named 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian of the Year
Featured Image Credit: Getty Rihanna is being honored in a huge way by Harvard University. She has been named the 2017 Harvard...
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117YouthNji Collins Gbah from Cameroon Becomes First African to Win Google Code-in Competition
In 2016, 1,340 tech-savvy young people from 62 countries participated in the Google Code-in Competition. The contest was open to pre-university students...