Spotlighting stories about the brightest youth and young adults in America and throughout the Diaspora.
he Lil Champs are a group of third, fourth, and fifth graders in Elmhurst, New York City. They are members of the LATCH After-School Program, which is supported by the Child Guidance Center of New York. The Lil Champs CD is a mix of hip-hop and R&B with songs ranging from a tribute to Black History to a humorous remix of traditional holiday songs. Listen to their rhymes.
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Uganda's Ssenkaaba Samson (Xenson) is a young multi talented creator of the unconventional with extraordinary imagination and unfound creativity greatly influenced by the grandeur of African arts, African cultures, vitality of African dance and Hip-Hop as a free expressive art form. He is at the vanguard of a youthful art renaissance that refuses to be pigeonholed into a singular artistic expression.
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Rev. Otis Moss III is one of America's brightest theologians shaping ministry in this relevant age. Here in a video from the DNC's 2007 Black History Month event, he connects the power of African-American history to the prophetic promise of the hip-hip, Post Soul generation - the young, black and gifted generation. Watch it here.
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Kesha Boyce Williams has been an award-winning journalist and interactive professional for more than 12 years. She's written for The Charlotte Observer, The Commercial Appeal (Memphis) and the Times-Union (Jacksonville). She's managed Web sites for a variety of corporations and non-profit organizations. A Laurens, S.C. native, she currently resides in the Midwest, but has a heart in the Diaspora. She's the proud wife of Zachery Williams, publisher of The Black Public Intellectual online magazine. The purpose of this site is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and INFORM those that are young, black and gifted. All young people should know that they have a gift and that gift should be encouraged. To the not so young - stop planting seeds of doubt in young people and talking about how bad this generation is. That is discouraging. BE ENCOURAGED by these stories. Psalm 71:5-6 "For You are my hope, O Lord GOD; You are my trust from my youth. By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother's womb. My praise shall be continually of You."
