Christopher LeMark, the founder of “Coffee, Hip-Hop and Mental Health” is a victim of physical, mental, and emotional abuse. After dealing with his trauma, he realized he wanted others to have a safe space themselves to deal with their problems as well. After breaking down in a Starbucks coffee shop in 2018, having hip-hop to perform as his backbone, and…
In Rocky Mount, North Carolina’s Best Friends Dog Park, a “historical” human bone was found early last week. The Rocky Mount Police Department has opened an investigation into the situation. The evidence unit of the department collected the bone and partnered with the State Bureau of Investigation and a local Forensic Anthropologist. The anthropologist considered the bone as a ‘historic”…
The naming of a road, park, or building can be decided in honor of a specific person, place, or thing. The Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery is now offering the history behind the naming of the streets in Washington D.C. The exhibit is called “Block by Block: Naming Washington”. It gives an insight into the lives of the individuals who…
The Tocobaga Indians were natives of the Tampa Bay area from around the years 900 to the 1500s. The Tocobaga people were known to build mounds within their villages. Mounds were large “piles of the earth” layered with shells or stones but also were known to be used as a burial site. In 1879, just before construction destroyed many traces…
The Mount Zion AME Zion Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. launched his civil rights career, will now be a museum. Mount Zion AME Zion Church in Montgomery, Alabama, was first approved for a $500,000 grant in 2018. Leaders originally planned to turn the space into a museum and open it to the public by 2020, the Associated Press (AP) reports. But the…
The Disney Channel Movie, Spin features its first movie with an Indian American main character. Spin follows the main character, Rhea, as she reaches for her dreams to become a DJ but deals with being torn between her family and social life. At her family-owned restaurant during her shift, she also plays her self-made mixes for the customers to enjoy.…
An Anne Frank Center is opening at the University of South Carolina, which will be the first museum in North America and the fourth in the world where visitors can walk through the famed story of the teenage Holocaust victim. “The Anne Frank Center at USC is unlike anything the university has ever done before,” interim university president Harris Pastides…
Propeller’s 2021 Impact Accelerator program features four Black food entrepreneurs navigating the consumer-packaged goods industry. The consumer-packaged-goods industry has grown considerably since the start of the pandemic, as eating habits shifted away from dine-in food service to meals prepared and eaten at home. The focus on consumer-packaged goods follows propeller’s recent food manufacturing partnership with Greater New Orleans, Inc., Edible…
Archaeologists surveying a Civil War cemetery in northern Virginia have chanced upon a surprising find: a buried pathway from the 1800s. As Mark Price reports for the Charlotte Observer, researchers from the Northeast Archeological Resources Program (NARP) uncovered the 19th-century road—as well as a brick-lined culvert—at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields National Military Park. The team was using ground-penetrating radar and magnetometer surveys to identify a suitable location for…