Good News

18-year-old Makenzie Thompson is the latest to become an academic beacon of hope after the Georgia high school senior made our whole community proud by obtaining over $1.3 million in scholarship offers from 49 out of the 51 universities that she applied to for college.

Thanks to a six-figure grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, the lot of over 1,800 rare recordings and unique materials in the Black Academy of Arts and Letters archive at the University of North Texas library will now be digitized and made public very soon.

Maryland's legendary-yet-forgotten Elktonia Beach will soon be given proper treatment after the five-acre property was recently confirmed to be getting developed into a history-themed waterfront park in Annapolis.

The good people over at Hampton University are showing love to students currently suffering in Ukraine by offering a full ride to come study at the HBCU's campus in Virginia this summer.

The Senate decided to put an end to Daylight Saving Time confusion once and for all by passing a measure that will make it permanent from now on throughout the United States.

With 2022 marking the end of her senior year at Harvard University, celebrated actress Yara Shahidi has recently announced that she's officially completed her final assignment after writing a 32,000-word thesis paper that summed up to a whopping 136 pages.

After a century that saw over 200 attempts to ban lynching get denied, Congress has finally enacted the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act that's currently en route to President Joe Biden for officiation.

A PG County man that spent years of his life behind bars as a teenager is turning his negative experience into a positive one by starting a digital postcard business that assures prisoners can always connect with family.

Civil rights icon Mary McLeod Bethune, a White House mainstay during the Roosevelt era that played a prominent role in his Black Cabinet, makes her grand return to the U.S. Capitol in the form of a statue that will sit in the National Statuary Hall.

Following a longstanding lawsuit that saw Toni Morrison's historic book 'The Bluest Eye' taken off shelves at libraries throughout the Missouri School District, a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union has now resulted in the book being returned to its rightful place. 

Congressman Steve Cohen has just introduced a bill to rename the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee after late Tuskegee Airman fighter pilot Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr.

After a short-yet-strong run from 1819 to 1820, America's first abolitionist newspaper, 'The Emancipator,' is now returning after over 200 years since its initial launch with an official online revival in 2022.