Stories

Children have been writing letters to Santa Claus for generations, but this 7-year-old boy’s note is a bit different.Blake is living with his mother in a Texas domestic v!ole-nce shelter and asked St. Nick to bring him a “very, very good dad” for the holiday. “Dear Santa, We had to …

The life of Dr. Isaiah L. White, Sr. is a remarkable story of gr-it, determination, and perseverance. As a young student, he was b-ull!ed and had to deal with teachers who told him he would be nothing. He also had multiple learning d!sabi-lities like dyslexia and spent most of his …

Parenting is a difficult task. Having a child depend on you completely for food, clothes, education, and everything else that comes with life is rough, to say the least. But having all of that responsibility, and more, as a single parent? Rough doesn’t even begin to describe it. Many single …

When we watch the news, most of the time it’s all about the negative things in this world. We seldom find something that inspires us or anything that can make us smile. The world is full of bad things and all we want is to have only the good of …

A woman who became famous after she climbed into a lion’s enclosure at a zoo says she now believes she is a lion herself. Myah Autry, 32, told a reporter she now thinks she’s a reincarnated lion. She made the claim while traveling to court after being taken in for …

When elderly people reach the final stages of their lives, companionship is a very important part of their care. However, it sometimes can be difficult to make it to a hospital or nursing home to visit a loved one. Such visits force us to confront the reality of de*th, and …

Tyler Gordon is a 12-year-old self-taught artist that concentrates his work on African-American culture and history. His works of art have paid tribute to the Central Park 5, Janet Jackson, Kevin Durant, Steve Harvey, Kevin Hart, and even the late Toni Morrison. In fifth grade, while many of us were …

Have you ever came across your ideal job, but after reading the job description realized that you didn’t qualify because you didn’t have the right degree? An 81-year-old middle school custodian is being praised for his tenacity after he earned his GED and received a promotion at his job. Herbert …

Born as the daughter of freedmen in 1902, Sarah Rector rose from humble beginnings to reportedly become the wealthiest African American girl in the nation at the age of 11. Rector and her family where African American members of the Muscogee Creek Nation who lived in a modest cabin in …

Almost anyone reading this has probably fallen asleep in front of their mates, only to wake and find they had been covered in marker pen phalluses, swear words or perhaps a novelty moustache. What are friends for, eh? Well, one mum decided to teach her newborn baby early doors the …