Category: Inspiring Stories

Meet Miriam Makeba: The Voice That United a Continent

“We Didn’t Want to Fix a Broken System, So We Created Our Own.” Meet the 70 Families Building Their Own Safe Haven — 5,000 Acres of Hope Called ‘Freedom, Georgia’

Morgan Price Makes History With Arkansas’ First Perfect 10 — After Doing It at Fisk Too

“The Jeffersons” Star & Beloved Actress Marla Gibbs, 94, Opens Up About How She Survived Nearly Fatal Brain Aneurysm & Stroke

He Listened. He Remembered. For Her 31st, Klay Surprised Megan With the Dream Car She Once Talked About

A Mother-Daughter Graduation Moment That Touched Hearts

Hirdresser Comforts 4-Year-Old Ariyonna After She Calls Herself “Ugly”

7-Year-Old Dakota White Becomes America’s Fastest Kid — Breaks Junior Olympics Record

When Your Grandma Is the Heartbeat of Jazz — Meet the Legendary Doreen Ketchens

At Just 15, Maya Angelou Made History as San Francisco’s First Black Female Cable Car Conductor

Lt. Col. Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell Makes History as the First Black Female Fighter Pilot in the U.S. Air Force

Hattie McDaniel Made History as the First Black Person to Win an Oscar — Yet Was Forced to Sit at a Segregated Table