France is rewarding hundreds of frontline immigrant workers with citizenship

The French government is rewarding migrant frontline workers with citizenship for their selfless acts of valour in the fight against COVID-19. “Health care workers, cleaning professionals, childcare workers and store clerks … They have proved their commitment to the nation. It is now up to the Republic to take a step toward them,” said French Junior Minister for Citizenship Marlene Schiappa’s office in a statement released on Tuesday.

Bellen Woodard, the world’s first crayon activist, named Time Magazine ‘Kid of the Year’ honoree

One’s age should never hinder them from being agents of change because as the saying goes, “if there is no seat at the table for you, create one.” Bellen Woodard, realizing there was no crayon that truly represented her skin shade, created her own multicultural crayons through her ‘More than Peach project’.

‘My hands are loud enough’ – Deaf TikToker goes viral for teaching Black American Sign Language

Black Deaf families have existed long before Nakia Charmay Smith took to TikTok to share videos on their dialect. The Black American Sign Language (BASL) is a dialect of the traditional American Sign Language (ASL) and so they have some similarities. What made Smith’s videos on TikTok go viral was how she and her family with hereditary deafness educated her followers on the history of BASL.

Eunice Hunton Carter: The Black woman lawyer who brought down America’s most powerful Mafia boss in 1936.

Eunice Hunton Carter, right from age eight, had the desire to study law. She once told a young boy on the beach that she wanted to be a lawyer to ensure “the bad people went to jail.” In three decades, Carter would bring down America’s biggest gangster in the 1930s, but not without certain difficulties.

The Truth Behind Black Africans with Blue Eyes

Have you ever seen a Black man or woman with blue eyes? What was your initial reaction? I almost fainted when I saw one about 25 years ago while trekking home from school. My first thought was, This must be a Mami Water (mermaid) since the person was not an albino. It was scary to look at from afar, but when I moved closer, the lady looked so pretty and interesting.