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Because of Them We Can Weekly Roundup
Congratulations are in order! Ebony Twilley Martin was just named the first Black co-executive director of Greenpeace, NBC News reports. In 2008, when Martin's son was just three years old, he was diagnosed with asthma. When asked how he had developed the respiratory condition, Martin's pediatrician said, "Look around your neighborhood." During that time, Martin lived with her family in subsidized housing in Prince George's County, Maryland, near a busy freeway ravaged...
Getting closer and closer to seeing it! According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot has locked in its cast. Last year, we reported about the new reboot, Bel-Air, inspired by a 2019 viral YouTube video by Morgan Cooper, reimagining the hit 90’s sitcom as a drama series. Both Cooper and Fresh Prince star Will Smith signed on to executive produce the new series, streaming giant Peacock winning the bid to air...
We need more of this! A Watts, Los Angeles youth football team is going above and beyond to help children in underserved communities, Today.com reports. The Watts Rams youth football team was started a decade ago by the city’s police department to strengthen ties with the community. Officer Zarren Thompson, a Watts police officer for over 25 years, serves as head coach and spoke about the importance of the team. “You want a change?...
100 Years if love and lessons A North Carolina World War II veteran, John Henry Sloan, just celebrated his 100th birthday, WWAY TV reports. Sloan is a World War II veteran who served on the front line, even driving in Italy to collect the dog tags of fallen soldiers. He said the best part about the war was making it back to his family. “Pretty rough time in the service, ducking bullets...
Her work is stunning! Newark artist Bisa Butler is using her “portrait quilts” to tell a new story, CBS News reports. Butler is a former art teacher who is now being hailed as a modern day griot. Inspired by the dressmaking of her mother and grandmother, Butler began creating quilt art. Her vividly detailed portraits, all stitched with fabric, reimagine the lives of the real life subjects they portray. The...
It’s the real magic school bus! Ayesha and Stephen Curry have a new bus that’s feeding and teaching children in Oakland, California, NBC News reports. The Currys are back at it again, this time debuting a new Eat.Learn.Play. Bus that will teach, feed and engage youth around Oakland’s under-resourced communities. Their Eat.Learn.Play foundation has previously done a ton of community work in the Bay Area, partnering with No Kid Hungry...
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