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Jordan Peele Is The First Black Writer-Director To Land $100 Million Debut

This clever comedian has officially made history.

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Wellesley College taps Harvard doctor Paula Johnson as first African-American president - The Boston Globe

Johnson, a professor at Harvard Medical School, will become the 14th president of the women’s college in July.

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15yo in Tennessee gets perfect score on the ACT -

At only 15 years old, a high school student in Tennessee achieved a feat that only few can claim – a perfect score on the ACT college entrance exam. Dwight Moore, a sophomore student at Christian Brothers High School in Memphis made the accomplishment of scoring a 36 on the ACT! His school put out a

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Cuyahoga Community College youth robotics team wins national championship

Students from Cuyahoga Community College's Youth Technology Academy won the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship, an engineering skills showcase in St. Louis.

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Teen accepted to all Ivies makes her choice

Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, a Long Island teen who received acceptance letters from all eight Ivy League schools, has decided where she'll attend college in the fall.

She Chose Harvard

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Kenwood Academy student accepted to 26 universities

Kenwood Academy's valedictorian, Arianna Alexander, wants to go to college to learn about business. As it turns out, she has a number of options.

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Thiam’s Rise to Become First Black CEO of European Bank: Timeline

Tidjane Thiam will become the first black chief executive officer of a European bank when he joins Credit Suisse Group AG. The Ivory Coast-born executive will also be the only black CEO running one of Switzerland’s biggest publicly traded companies. Here’s how he got to his job at Credit Suisse:

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Black-owned banks get rush of new depositors

A black-owned Atlanta bank is experiencing a sudden surge of deposits, powered by a campaign to bolster black-owned financial institutions after police killings raised awareness of institutional inequality.

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Phenomenal Twins Get Into 56 Colleges, Earn $1.6 Million In Scholarships

Looks like Sallie Mae won't be chasing down these two.

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Made In Africa: Three Cars Designed And Manufactured In Africa

According to the World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to remain one of the fastest growing regions in the world. While Africa's economy is soaring past most regions with an annual growth of about 5% due mainly to increased agriculture production, infrastructure investment including transportation, ports and energy as well [...]

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Meet ‘Nollywood’: The second largest movie industry in the world

Last year, data was released showing that Nollywood is a $3 billion industry. It is bigger than Hollywood by volume, and right behind India’s Bollywood.

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The Netflix of Africa Doesn’t Need Hollywood to Win

How Iroko built its low-budget, DIY, Nollywood-movie-streaming business.

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Black female physicist pioneers technology that kills cancer cells with lasers

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the country, and the recent winner of $1.1 million grant to further develop a technology she’s pioneered that uses…

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Sundance Roars for a Black Film, and Fox Searchlight Bids $17 Million

If accepted, the offer for “The Birth of a Nation,” about Nat Turner, would be one of the highest prices ever paid for a film making its debut at the film festival.

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Universal Pictures and Legendary’s 'Straight Outta Compton' has earned $200 million at the worldwide box office.

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Ryan Coogler in talks to direct Black Panther with a mostly black cast

Marvel's upcoming Black Panther movie was pushed back to a 2018 release date this year, but details about the film are still slowly trickling out. In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, Marvel...

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Meet The African-American Billionaire Businessman Who's Richer Than Michael Jordan

Robert F. Smith makes his debut on the Forbes 400 as the second-richest African-American, based on years of hard work and high achievement in the software industry.