Breathe On

Black Business, Arts, and Education

April 29, 2024

Two Black girls in Michigan are making Eagle Scout history. Kimani Brame and Phoenix Moyer are the first in the state to reach the status for the all-gender Scouts. The high schoolers in Grand Rapids earned at least 21 merit badges to achieve the new ranking. The...

A Cincinnati woman is helping to shape tourism in the city for visitors by providing the ultimate guide to local Black businesses. In July 2023, Azizah Nubia launched Cincy Black Travel Guide to make it easier for people to get a pure experience of...

From AfroPoP Digital Shorts
A coming-of-age story set in 1959 that follows a 9-year-old precocious African-American who enters an all-white library, in a deeply segregated South Carolina, and refuses to leave without his books.

Ryan Henderson met just two Black teachers during his years of schooling, including while attending college to earn his bachelor’s degree. The impact, he says, was profound. “I did not see myself represented as a teacher, and when you don’t see yourself represented as...

For the sixth year in a row, Democratic Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC) engaged House members from both sides of the aisle to invest in historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and empower students to pursue science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM)...

Black Public Media awarded a total of $610,000 to film and immersive projects and creatives at its seventh PitchBLACK Forum - the largest pitch competition for independent filmmakers and creative technologists developing new projects about the global...

Here's how to build and utilize your inherent resilience to face adversity and drive your business forward. Preparing for and walking down the road less traveled in order to shape your dreams into reality is always treacherous. But this holds particularly true...