Inspiring Stories

17-year-old Verda Tetteh, a senior at Fitchburg High School in Massachusetts, received a $40,000 merit scholarship during her graduation as the school's top graduating student.
7-year-old African American, Dakota White has made history in the United States of America as the fastest kid in the United States.
17-year-old African American, Christopher Ballinger made history as one of the youngest Black pilots in the United States of America after recently earning his pilot license.

The Mamie Mariama Justice Ganawa Education Foundation (MaMJGEF) is a first-of-its-kind organization that primarily caters to the less privileged and hard-working Sierra Leonean students to acquire high-quality education and to

Buhle Gotsha is a 17-year-old South African from the province of KwaZulu-Natal who launched his own wrist watch company called Ericsson Dorra.

A phenomenal and exception Elijah Muhammad Jr. has recently became the youngest black college student in the history of Oklahoma. This feat was achieved after he gained admission to the

Violet Edwards is the oldest African-American to receive a university degree at 96 years and 263 days old.

There are certainly no limitations to what black people can accomplish. Haben Girma is a living testament. The 34-year-old author, advocate, speaker, and disability justice lawyer became the first-ever deafblind

Godwin Ajala is often remembered and celebrated as an American national hero who laid his life for the sake of countless people who were escaping from the World Trade Center

John Edmonstone was an enslaved black man who taught the young and inexperienced Charles Darwin the skill of taxidermy.
Millions of people have either seen or read the story of the R.M.S Titanic. But how many of us have read about Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, a Haitian engineer –

The African Dream thinks the month of August should be dedicated to the outstanding life journey of Dr. Runoko Rashidi. Therefore, we are taking this step to write about one

There has been a gigantic step toward the solution to heart problems as Mariam Noor, a Somali-born Ph.D. student at Aarhus University, developed a small ring for leaking heart valves.

Alena Analeigh Wicker has undoubtedly stamped her name in the history books after becoming the youngest Black person to have been accepted into medical school in the United States. In

It is often misunderstood by people with racial thoughts to dwell in the ideology that blacks are racially inferior or mentally inept. Well, the inspiring story of Mary Davidson Beatrice

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