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! 👏🏽
Before shooting 14-year-old Cyrus Belton in the back (as he fled), Rick Chow:
• 2013: Shot at a guy stealing beer
• 2015: Fired 6 shots into a car over beer
• 2018: Shot a man in the leg over $6
Now conservatives defend it. Pattern or self-defense?
Legendary soul group Sounds of Blackness surprised a store worker with a live performance after hearing their music playing throughout her store.
Happy Black Music Month! ✊🏿🇺🇸
Yet there’s still a lotta White folks that insist on pushing that “Blacks are the most violent Per-Capita😂”
that’s because the fact that they’re the most violent shatters their egos…”So they lie to themselves and deflect onto Blacks”
Doesn’t change the fact 🤷🏽♀️
"Last I checked, Egypt is in Africa. ... I'm going to sound like Martin Luther King: 'I'm tired of having people deny the intellect of Africans in Egypt 5,000 years ago.' ... Denial of dark skin people having that ability." - @neiltyson
🚨 UPDATE: Shelby Officer Charged With Assault After Video Showed Him Punching Woman Repeatedly
Former Shelby Police Officer Karson Hyder, 22, has been charged with one count of assault inflicting serious injury.
He turned himself in to the Cleveland County Detention Center and was released on a $10,000 secured bond.
A doorbell camera captured Hyder throwing 34-year-old Cherrie Moore to the ground and punching her repeatedly in the head during an arrest on May 29.
A second officer could be heard trying to intervene. Moore suffered a broken nose and facial injuries.
Hyder was fired within 24 hours of the incident. The investigation focused on allegations of excessive use of force.
The case is ongoing.