(BPRW) Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun Honored by Huntingdon College (Black PR Wire) Montgomery, Ala.—Dr. Bessie House-Soremekun, a professor at Jackson State University, was recognized by her undergraduate alma mater, Huntingdon College, with the College’s Alumni Achievement Award during Homecoming festivities in October 2021. Upon conferring her award, Dr. Anthony Leigh, senior vice president for student and […]
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sixth-grader was honored by law enforcement and school officials for his heroic actions not just once, but twice in the same day. Earlier this month, Davyon Johnson used the Heimlich maneuver on a classmate who was choking on a bottle cap at his school in Muskogee. Later that same day, […]
Three unidentified Black Civil War soldiers from the U.S. Colored Troops have been properly honored last weekend 157 years after they were lined up and shot execution-style and left on the side of a road in Virginia. Howard Lambert, who heads the nonprofit organization Freedom Foundation, and in partnership with Civil War Trails and the […]
An Texas elementary school teacher has been recognized for hard work and perseverance from working as a custodian through her current position as a first-grade educator. Wanda Smith works at Brenham Elementary School in east-central Texas has been honored during Teacher Appreciation Week. Before Smith became a teacher at the Brenham Elementary, she was staff […]
NBA superstar LeBron James will receive the President’s Award during the 52nd NAACP Image Awards, earning the honor because of his commitment to social justice efforts and philanthropic leadership. The NAACP, which will present the award during a ceremony airing on BET on Saturday, has recognized James as a cultural icon who has transcended beyond sports. […]
A New England Patriot’s football player is being heralded for preventing a woman from being sexually assaulted in Tempe, Arizona. Justin Herron, an offensive lineman for the Patriots is one of two men who intervened in the Kiwanis Park attack, where a suspect shoved a 71-year-old woman to the ground and attempted to take off her […]
101-year-old Romay Davis has worked at Winn-Dixie grocery store in Montgomery, Alabama for over two decades is now being recongizned for her outstanding work with grant program named after her. The grandmother is still working even amid the coronavirus pandemic and still drives herself to the grocery store each day for work. The grant program […]