90-year-old Thelma Jones from Southfield, Michigan recently earned her 5th-degree black belt in Isshinryu karate and she’s not planning to just stop now. Jones has been practicing karate for 50 years and still takes karate lessons 3 times a week at Southfield Martial Arts. Jones instructor, Willie Adams, who is a 77-year-old grandmaster with a […]
Daniel Robert Smith, 90, descendant of man born into slavery in Virginia during the Civil War passed away last week. Smith passed away at a hospital in Washington D.C. according to The Washington Post. His wife Loretta Neumann says he had cancer and congestive heart failure. Smith, the fifth of six children was born on […]
A former teacher, has been able to attain 20,000-pieces of artifacts reflecting the Black American experience, will be placed on auction. The 90-year-old Black woman asking the question, “What is the value of the story of a people?” — will began the bid at one million dollars. The collection’s owner and curator Elizabeth Meaders has […]
A Philadelphia woman says she saved her and her grandmother life from a house fire with help from local police, who claimed they were responsible for saving the two women. “I’m so upset with Philadelphia police, and then to get on camera and lie and say that you helped, say that you rescued two women, […]