https://www.npr.org/2026/03/14/g-s1-113432/prisoners-women-jails-senegal

Released in 2025, Diouf now volunteers to help female inmates in Senegal. The conditions that women in prison face were highlighted in events held in Senegal on International Women’s Day this past week — including the distribution of free, reusable menstrual products, which aren’t readily available to prisoners. Diouf agreed to share her story to bring attention to the issues that affect the country’s approximately 280 women prisoners — about 2% of the total prison population of 14,000.

https://www.jaylajackson.com/about

Jayla Jackson is an Atlanta-based producer and activist whose impressive journey began in 2021. She gained national recognition as one-half of the first Black girl duo to win Harvard’s International Debate Competition, making history twice as the youngest Black female to achieve this feat. In honor of her accomplishments, Fulton County, Georgia, designated Jayla Jackson and Emani Stanton: Atlanta Great Debaters’ Day in her name. She was also named one of Teen Vogue’s Top 21 Under 21 that same year.

Bread Beauty Supply Makes Frizzy Hair Aspirational

Ahead of the brand’s launch at Sephora, founder Maeva Heim chatted with Allure about creating products that are formulated to help people with 4C textures embrace “lazy girl” hair.

https://breadbeautysupply.com/pages/about?srsltid=AfmBOoq6oeeXlUTg-EkJkcecW2RbHD8xARReglW1GziPPqH8hD7uvX_o

Our founder, Maeva, spent a lot of time hanging around her Mum’s braiding salon in Perth, Australia, as a tiny and impressionable human. Beauty and hair products punctuated her everyday, and became a cornerstone of her growing up.

Maeva spent her early career working at global ‘big box’ beauty brands. But something didn’t feel right. She wasn’t really acknowledged in mainstream hair conversations, and struggled to find clean hair products that were uncomplicated, practical, and fun.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/nx-s1-5742754/grammy-aura-fyutch-youngest-winner

Aura and her dad, Harold Simmons II, who uses the stage name Fyütch, won music’s biggest prize in February. Their album, Harmony, won the Grammy for best children’s music album. Before Aura’s win, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s daughter Blue Ivy Carter had been the youngest individual Grammy winner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorja_Smith

Jorja Alice Smith (born 11 June 1997) is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Walsall, West Midlands, she has been writing songs since the age of 11. In 2012, Smith’s friend uploaded her cover of Labrinth‘s “Earthquake” to YouTube,^[2] which led to her discovery by record producer Guy Moot. After her first two singles received broader recognition, she signed with Sony/ATV in early 2016, releasing two EPs throughout later that year and into 2017.

Her debut studio album, Lost & Found, was released in 2018 to critical acclaim, and peaked at number three on the UK Albums Chart. The same year, Smith won the Brit Critics’ Choice Award. In 2019, she was named Best British Female Artist at the Brit Awards and was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Her third EP Be Right Back, which was released in May 2021, received favourable reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Reconstruction_Collective

The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) is an American architecture collective. The BRC was formed by participants in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America project which was exhibited in the spring of 2021.^[1]

https://www.blackreconstructioncollective.org/about

Mission

The Black Reconstruction Collective (BRC) provides funding, design, and intellectual support to the ongoing and incomplete project of emancipation for the African Diaspora. The BRC is committed to multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary work dedicated to dismantling systemic white supremacy and hegemonic whiteness within art, design, and academia. Founded by a group of Black architects, artists, designers, and scholars, the BRC aims to amplify knowledge production and spatial practices by individuals and organizations that further the reconstruction project.

The BRC engages the public through an annual process of reviewing proposals and providing critical and financial support to projects that have been selected by the committee. This work will manifest in built commissions, research funding, exhibitions, events, and publications, that will collectively imagine transformations to the built environment in the Black Radical Tradition.

https://www.onestowatch.com/en/blog/joshy-soul-new-lover

The Long Beach-based artist is recognizable for his magnetic music soaked in vibrant instrumentation and smoldering confidence. Soul is proficient in a myriad of creative talents. A performer, writer, producer, art director, stylist and model, he accomplishes each with effortless flair. That skillful sense of ease can be heard throughout this shimmering releases.

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/victor-j-glover

Victor J. Glover was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and is currently assigned as the pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission to the moon. He has previously served as the pilot of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station as part of Expedition 64.

Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. He most recently served as pilot of the Crew-1 dragon spacecraft, named Resilience, which flew to the International Space Station, where he also served as Flight Engineer for Expedition 64/65. Glover has been assigned as Pilot of NASA’s Artemis II mission around the Moon. Artemis II’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 6:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, sending NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft on an approximately 10-day test flight around the Moon and back.

The California native earned an undergraduate engineering degree as a two sport athlete, while serving his community. Glover is a Naval Aviator and was a test pilot in the F/A‐18 Hornet, Super Hornet and EA‐18G Growler. He and his family have been stationed in many locations in the United States and Japan and he has deployed in combat and peacetime. 

https://news.famu.edu/2025/from-the-hill-to-hollywood-famu-drum-major-dupe-oloyede-takes-the-oscar-stage.php

Oluwamodupe “Dupe” Oloyede, a senior theater major at Florida A&M University, found herself in awe of the magnitude of what was unfolding in her life.

The first female head drum major of the legendary Marching 100 has spent the year commanding attention on fields, stages and screens across the country. Still, even for someone accustomed to leading one of the most iconic marching bands in the world, nothing could have prepared her for the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday.

Yet that is exactly where Oloyede found herself.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/22/g-s1-114038/new-drugs-health-medicine-africa-tuberculosis-measles

Kelly Chibale says that the hunt for new drugs is kind of like a fairy-tale quest. And it takes a lot of time and patience. “It doesn’t mean that there aren’t surprises or miracles,” he says. “They do happen, but you have to kiss many frogs before you meet the prince.”

The “prince” might just be a new medicine to treat malaria or tuberculosis.

This search is what motivated Chibale to found the Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he currently serves as director.