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Nicodemus Madehdou
Nicodemus Madehdou isn’t just a lover of video games. He’s obsessed with creating them, too. He co-founded Jumpbutton Studio in 2009—when he was still in middle school, no less—and brought on developers and designers from all over the world to create video games. Currently, his team is hoping to launch a mobile app called ME.mory,…
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Isaiah Cooper
Isaiah Cooper is already aiming to fly to higher heights. In 2016, at 16 years old, he made headlines when he became one of the youngest black pilots to fly around the United States. The next mission? To make the Guinness World Records and become the youngest person to take a solo flight around the…
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Chris Suggs
Chris Suggs set himself on a path to change the world very early. When he was 14, his hometown, Kinston, N.C., experienced a spate of gun violence—and Chris quickly grew tired of hearing about young people getting caught in the crossfire. So, in 2014, he founded Kinston Teens to amplify voices of young people so…
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Nicole O’Dell
Nicole O’Dell talks as effortlessly about biotechnology as she would if she were talking about what she ate for dinner. In 2015, she won first place at the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers’ national competition. Her project analyzed the effects of low-dose radiation and whether X-rays from security scanning machines affect materials…
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Anicca Harriot
Anicca Harriot dabbed her way to internet stardom. But unlike other folks who often just dab to celebrate a moment, Anicca put pencil to paper and calculated the angle of her dab by hand. She posted the angle, 31.70 degrees to be exact, on Twitter, and the tweet has since gained more than 27,000 retweets…
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Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is dedicated to making sure the world’s infrastructure is solid as a rock. Seriously. Augusta has spent the last several years researching cement and how to make it sustainable. The Harvard College freshman told The Root that her “first love” and “first passion” is cement. CATEGORY: Science and TechAGE: 18HOMETOWN: Elmont, N.Y.EDUCATION: Harvard…
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Tech Needs to Do the Work to Find Black Excellence, but You Can Do Your Part, Too
The Uber fallout of recent weeks makes something my grandmother used to tell me more important than ever now: “To get something you don’t have, you’ll have to do something you haven’t done. You’re a black woman. So, to do that, you’ll have to work twice as hard to get half as far.” However, the…
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Scott Pruitt: We Need More Proof Global Warming Exists; That Earth’s Basically Melting Is Not Enough
Scott Pruitt, the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency, showed that he is everything we feared he would be Thursday when he got on television and basically denied that climate change exists. The Washington Post reports that Pruitt’s comments on the CNBC program Squawk Box “outraged scientists, environmentalists, and even his immediate predecessor” at…
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KKK Wizard Found Dead Smelled of Cat Piss; Wife Accused of Killing Him
The imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who was recently found dead near a river in Missouri, apparently smelled like cat piss and stunk to high heaven during his life. According to the River Front Times, the scent permeated from Frank Ancona’s clothes, clinging to him like a blanket,…
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How Umar Johnson Cured Me of Being a Hidden Hotep
I am a recovering hidden Hotep. Mind you, not the ankh-wearing, incense-selling, lecture-women-about-their menstrual-cycles kind of Hotep. I was more Hotep-adjacent. Hidden beneath my public-Ivy education and functional relationship with my parents lurked a man who would disappear down YouTube click holes of Tariq Nasheed, Professor Griff, ZaZa Ali and, of course, Dr. Umar Johnson.…