At Just 13 Years Old, Alena Analeigh McQuarter Made History As The Youngest Black Student Ever Accepted Into A U.S. Medical School. Now 17, This Brilliant Young Queen Has Already Graduated High School At 12, Earned A Master’s Degree, Interned At NASA, Founded The Brown STEM Girl To Inspire Other Girls Of Color, And Continues Blazing Trails In Medicine And Science.
Biggie’s grandma 103yo with her grandchildren CJ & T’yanna Wallace in Jamaica 🇯🇲❤️ (‘25)
Biggie and his mother both passed long before her, life is unpredictable. 🕊️
Lost his sister at 22 to childbirth, and became a father to her triplet overnight. Years later, he was still there for every milestone, right up to graduation day 👩🎓 ❤️
Being the only Undergraduate Intern at the Indiana Federal Courthouse this summer has taught me that it’s okay to be the youngest in the room because you’re still in the room! #jacksonstateuniversityathlete
Meet Cherry and Sherry Wilmore, these incredible Black twin sisters who grew up in foster care and turned their pain into purpose! 🙌🏾
After spending 12 years in the foster care system, these queens from Houma, Louisiana refused to let their past hold them back. Instead, they launched their own nonprofit, CHeriSH Times Two, to help other foster kids succeed — donating laptops for college, supporting vulnerable youth, and showing up for the community in a major way.
From surviving the system to becoming changemakers and role models! this is real Black sisterhood, resilience, and beautiful comeback energy!
We love to see it. Cherry and Sherry, you’re making your younger selves proud and lighting the way for so many others. Keep shining, Queens! 👏🏽
Meet Zakia Dowdy, the standout 2025 graduate from Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta, Georgia — one of the most decorated and awarded students in the state! 👏🏽
This young queen showed up to graduation with a massive stack of over 50 honors, awards, cords, sashes, and medals and walked away with more than $1 MILLION in scholarships!
Zakia has been killing it, she’s a Multiple-time A & B Honor Roll and Principal’s List student, Dual Enrollment Scholar who earned college credits while in high school, a early graduate (December), she’s Active in JROTC, Chorus, National Dance Honor Society, Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and multiple leadership roles, a Community advocate and poetry slam participant.
Now she’s heading to Kennesaw State University majoring in Political Science with a minor in Public Relations. She’s already involved with NAACP apprenticeship, KSU Collegiate 100, Mayor’s Ambassador Council, and the Political Science Civic Leadership program.
Her big dream is to become the Governor of Georgia and we have no doubt she’s going to make it happen!
This is what Black excellence and hard work look like. Proud of Zakia and her family for celebrating this moment so beautifully. The sky is truly the limit! Keep shining, Queen! 👏🏽
Daniel Nwaekwe just leveled all the way up.
This king finished #3 in his class at McKinney High School, dripping in honors (yellow stole, cords, sashes, medals) as he celebrates getting Princeton bound (accepted into THREE Ivies)!!!
He earned AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended, 17 AP classes, Black Student Union President, Mr. MHS, Distinguished Student Award, and building his own business (Starstruck World LLC) as a producer & audio engineer.
From the nonstop grind to the Ivy League stage… this is Black excellence in full motion.
Let’s gooooo, Daniel! The world is yours, king! 👏🏽🔥
Identical twin brothers Jamil and Jalal Paul are making history flying together as pilots for the same airline.
With Black pilots making up less than 4% of the industry in the U.S., these two are breaking barriers and inspiring a whole new generation to aim higher.
Dream big, reach new heights. 👏🏾
East Tennessee State University unveils powerful new statues honoring the first 5 African American students who helped integrate the campus in the late 1950s.
Pioneers: Eugene Caruthers, Elizabeth Watkins Crawford, George L. Nichols, Mary Luellen Owens Wagner, and Clarence McKinney.
Their courage and legacy now stand tall for future generations. The statues, titled “The Path” by sculptor Austen Brantley, were unveiled on October 25, 2025. History remembered and honored. 👏🏾