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Aaliyah Alicia Thompson, a 21-year-old African American woman from Stockbridge, Georgia, has made history as the first woman with autism in the country to open her very own beauty bar. She recently opened Aaliyah’s Beauty Bar in Clayton County (just 15 miles from Atlanta) to provide hair and beauty care services. When Aaliyah was 5 years old, she was diagnosed with autism. But she did not let it stop her from learning and achieving more. She was an outstanding student during high school and even graduated with honors. Aaliyah found her passion for beauty when she started working at Touched by an…

Marvel’s Armor Wars movie can take away a great deal from how Phase 4 handled Ironheart’s first MCU story in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Armor Wars has an important lesson it can learn from Tony Stark’s replacement in the MCU. A proper successor to Iron Man emerged in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever when Dominque Thorne’s Riri Willaims suited up as the Marvel Comics superhero, Ironheart. Sometime in Phase 5, the tech genius will be leading her own Disney+ series, and much like Iron Man himself, she could play crucial roles in future MCU movies. Of course, Ironheart isn’t the only superhero with a connection…

Iman Abuzeid, a medical doctor turned entrepreneur and CEO, is making history as one of very few Black women to lead a billion-dollar company. Her health tech startup, Incredible Health, is currently valued at $1.65 billion. She is only the fourth Black woman in history to have accomplished this. In August 2022, Incredible Health reportedly secured an $80 million Series B round of funding, raising the company’s total current valuation to up to $1.65 billion and making its CEO, Abuzeid, only the 4th Black woman in history to run a company valued at more than a billion dollars. Abuzeid co-founded Incredible…

“Mikey knew in his heart all along this little brother of his was coming…it was just a matter of time.” For as long as he’s been able to talk, Mikey Marotta has had one persistent request — a baby brother. But, after years of fertility struggles followed by a miscarriage in early 2017, Mikey’s mother, Jessica Marotta, says she and her husband, Michael, thought 6-year-old Mikey’s wish would never come true. “We had a heart to heart one night and decided we would be perfectly content as a family of three,” Marotta told TODAY Parents. “When Mikey would ask when he was going…

MCU fans are going wild over a sensational hint from Elizabeth Olsen that she will be returning to the role of Scarlet Witch. A reporter asked Olsen which future storyline she would like for Wanda, and the star hesitated to answer. Instead, she explained that Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige often uses feedback from actors to shape the narratives of the characters they play. Fans cheered when Olsen expressed an unreserved desire to return to the franchise. “Well, honestly, if I were to tell you exactly what I would want, I think I would be spoiling something because Kevin Feige genuinely asks us…

Danielle Geathers is a rising college junior majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in product design, or at they say at MIT, Course 2-A.  She is also the first Black woman elected to serve as MIT’s student body president in the school’s 159 years — a fact she has researched extensively. “I actually did an independent study in the fall semester and I wrote 30 pages about the history of Black female recruitment at MIT,” she says, noting that an ideal outcome of her presidency is that “MIT is a more inclusive place and that Black student matriculation goes up next…

Tom Holland’s live-action Spider-Man is reportedly making an appearance in Sony Pictures’ highly-anticipated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Spider-Man: No Way Home star Tom Holland is reportedly making an appearance in Sony Pictures Animation’s Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Following the success of No Way Home, rumors about Holland’s future as Spider-Man continue to circulate online, including a potential appearance in the highly-anticipated Across the Spider-Verse movie. During The Hot Mic Podcast, industry scooper Jeff Sneider revealed that the upcoming animated sequel may see Miles Morales going to a live-action Marvel universe, where Holland’s version of Spider-Man resides. “I’d heard that part of the delay of [Spider-Man: Across…

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps will join astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada as a crew member on the first operational flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced Tuesday. The six-month expedition, which is planned to launch in 2021, will make Epps the first Black woman to live and work in space for an extended period of time. “Jeanette Epps is the natural addition to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission,” Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for human exploration and operations at NASA headquarters, tells CNBC Make It in a statement. “She fully complements the other members of the first Boeing full…

Robert Downey Jr.’s revival in Marvel is a subject that has not only been contented on several fronts but sorely criticized and judged. The arc broadly explored and engaged within the three phases comprising the Infinity Saga no longer finds a place in the coming future. And there is a sense of poetic closure in knowing that RDJ, the godfather of the Marvel universe, and his arc as Tony Stark – the one who laid down his life to save it – should end with Endgame. Robert Downey Jr.’s Arc as Tony Stark Has Come to an End In an io9 conference,…

After your little one arrives in your life, you want to celebrate each and every second of they with you. You can’t wait to tell they how lucky you are to have them in your life. Well, there are various ways by which you can show them how grateful you are to have them in your life. One of those ways is celebrating their special days with uniqueness. Nowadays, newborn photography is way more creative than just snapping a few photos of a crying baby with a camera, and many photographers specialize in capturing the first weeks of newborns’ lives…

It goes without saying that Thor: Love and Thunder has already gone down in the history books as one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most disappointing installments, so singling one solitary aspect out for criticism above all other is a moot point. However, fans were left crushingly disappointed after all of the teasers, trailers, and marketing spots heavily played up the involvement of James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, only for Star-Lord and the gang to vanish after the opening action sequence, never to be seen or heard from again. Those expecting a full-blown team-up were left crushed, and it felt as though…

Laine Bradley, a 32-year-old Haitian-American woman from Raleigh, NC, has helped small businesses and nonprofit organizations secure over $15 million in grant funding. She is the founder and CEO of Vraiment Financial, a full financial firm focused on providing innovative client solutions. In addition, she is the creator of the Grant Capital Society, a funding resource community for new and existing small businesses and organizations that provides information, resources, and training to become grant ready. As a wife and mother of four, Bradley prides herself in educating small businesses and organizations to consistently establish the foundation they need to win…

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One of the most popular antiheroes created by Marvel Comics is Ghost Rider, a supernaturally powered biker that preys on evil. With a fearsome appearance and ties to Hell itself, Ghost Rider is one of the darker characters to be featured in Marvel Comics. His enemies are more likely to be demons or their agents rather than aliens, androids, and wizards. This leads to grim story lines that the MCU has only recently begun to dip into. While Ghost Rider has already been featured on screen, played by Nicolas Cage in 2007’s Ghost Rider and its sequel Spirit of Vengeance, as well as a version being presented…

Navy Lt. j.g. Madeline Swegle is making history by becoming the first known Black female tactical air pilot in the U.S. Navy’s history. The news was announced in a July 9 tweet sent out by the Naval Air Training Command who congratulated Swegle on completing her Tactical Air (Strike) pilot training syllabus. According to the Navy Times, Swegle, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2017, will now be able to fly aircrafts like the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter and the EA-18G Growler. News of Swegle’s accomplishment comes 40 years after Lt. Cmdr. Brenda Robinson made history…

While the MCU is full of action, there are many sad scenes, whether it’s a tragic separation or a fan-favorite character death. These are the saddest. The MCU is known for releasing highly entertaining, action-packed films. Most people don’t expect to leave a Marvel movie crying, but the MCU is also capable of doing just that, especially with Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Over the years, fans have become attached to characters in the MCU. They have watched the heroes develop and followed their relationships, breakups, and growth on screen. Even though the movies tend to focus on action, there’s undeniably a lot of emotion…

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As Black Lives Matter protests continue to take place around the world, Kezia Williams, an entrepreneur and executive, is urging activists and allies to exercise their economic power by spending more money with Black-owned businesses. On Juneteenth, Williams launched the #MyBlackReceipt initiative to encourage consumers to buy from Black-owned companies and upload the receipts of their purchases to the myblackreceipt.com platform. The goal, Williams says, is to get Black customers and allies to spend at least $5 million with Black businesses from Juneteenth to July 6, a day before “Blackout Day” in which community leaders are asking Black consumers and allies to not spend…

The House of M timeline is one of Marvel’s most engaging realities, with the perfect political set up for a superhero Game of Thrones expansion. The specific nature of the Marvel Comics multiverse allows for different kinds of realities, some of them specifically divergent from one another. The choices made to change a timeline can result in the creation of an entirely new reality. This is how dark futures like the world of Days of Future Past or the grim parallel world of Age of Apocalypse can still exist in the multiverse even after their connection to the core reality of Earth-616 is severed. This…

Today, Aug. 3, marks Black Women’s Equal Pay Day — the day that Black women working full-time finally catch up to what their white, non-Hispanic male counterparts earned in 2020. This means it takes an extra eight months for Black women to earn what white males earned the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Currently, Black women earn $0.63 for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. Based on personal experience, I know how frustrating this is. As a Black CEO in her 40s working in management consulting, an industry dominated by white males, I’ve consistently had to advocate for myself when it…

A Marvel Studios executive has recently shut down, for good this time, any and all rumors of Robert Downey Jr.’s return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Despite the original six carrying the franchise out from the Marvel dark ages and into a wildly receptive world that unilaterally adopted and loved the CBM franchise, it is now time to move forward once again out of the past and into a more diverse era. This essentially means that Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson’s dominion over Marvel has officially ended. And just as reality trudges on even in the shroud…

The difficult struggle of IVF is captured in a photo! A photographer from Arizona tried to turn the difficult path of the extracorporeal into a truly shocking work of art, and she succeeded! Samantha Packer’s photo has gone viral and has been making the rounds on the internet for the last few days, and not without reason! Patricia and Kimberly O’Neill, a couple from Sun City, Arizona, approached the photographer with an idea. Inspired by other similar photos they had seen on the internet from time to time, they asked her to photograph their newborn daughter, London, surrounded by every…

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Wilglory Tanjong, 25, is a full-time MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founder and CEO of Anima Iris, a luxury purse brand. After living on food stamps as a teen and later coping with the loss of her mother, Wilglory promised herself she would become financially independent and live life to the fullest. Not only has her company brought in over $725,000 in sales in less than two years, but her bags have been worn by Beyoncé and spotted on Issa Rae’s show, “Insecure.” Wilglory Tanjong is a full-time MBA student at the University of Pennsylvania’s…