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Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson is taking his powerful message to the Ivy League this fall.

  We have another young African-American teen to honor this college-acceptance season! We’ve already told you about the amazing accomplishments of Avery Coffey, Kwasi Enin and Akintunde Ahmad. Now, we’re excited to throw Patrick Peoples into the mix. The 17-year-old, a senior at the Lyceum Academy of New Hanover High School in Wilmington, N.C., was […]

Here at #TeamBeautiful we live for stories about Black academic success. We celebrated Eboni Boykin, who spent her childhood in homeless shelters but now calls New York’s Columbia University home. We praised the Thompson triplets, who graduated Magna Cum Laude with BS degrees from Norfolk State. And this week, we celebrated 21-year-old Ameena Ruffin and […]

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Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to all eight Ivy League Universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of…

Avery Coffey, a high school senior from one of the poorest parts of Washington D.C., is in high demand this college-acceptance season. The 17-year-old from Benjamin Banneker Academic High School was accepted to five of the top schools in the nation. According to Fox DC, Coffey applied to five Ivy League universities, and amazingly he […]

Eboni Boykin spent her youth living in homeless shelters and, sometimes, cars with her single mother and younger siblings.  She once bounced around countless schools in Mississippi and Missouri, but these days she calls New York’s Columbia University home. Boykin, who is now a sophomore at the Ivy League school, first shared her story of […]