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McDaniel won an Oscar for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind

Croak’s innovations in internet tech have enabled remote work, text donations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and voting for American Idol.

When Marian Croak was just five or six years old, she grew enchanted with electricians and plumbers who came to fix broken wires and pipes at her home

At the peak of World War II in 1942, the US government launched a program to develop an atomic weapon, responding to intelligence that Germany was developing its own nuclear technology. The program was code-named the Manhattan Project, after the location of its first headquarters in New York City, and was led by prominent scientists like Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi.At its height, the Manhattan Project employed nearly 130,000 people, including thousands of Black Americans, most of whom to…

Lina Trivedi is an Indian American entrepreneur who helped catapult the Beanie Babies into a worldwide phenomenon in the 90s when she was just a college student. Her role in the Beanie Babies craze was documented in the recent movie “The Beanie Bubble.” She has since launched a few tech startups in the AI and content generation space.This article is based on a conversation with Trivedi, as told to Insider reporter Yoonji Han. It has been edited for length and clarity.

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Dr. Aomawa Shields, an astronomer, astrobiologist, and associate professor of physics and astronomy at UC Irvine. She is just one of 26 Black women astrophysicists in America. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.My fascination with the sky came at a young age. I remember being younger than 10 years old and going to air shows for the Blue Angels, an aerial flight team at the Miramar Air Force Base in San Diego. My grandmother w…

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Ashley Blanc, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who recently bought a property in Latronico, Italy. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.I was born in Trinidad & Tobago but was brought over to the United States when I was a baby. When I was young, my parents and I took family vacations to Barbados, and got a taste of traveling. That opened me up a lot to the world outside America.Growing up in the streets of Baltimore, there was a sen…

Following the implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the world is scrambling to learn more about Caroline Ellison.Ellison was the CEO of Alameda Research, a trading firm that borrowed customer funds from FTX to cover its losses and make risky bets. She was fired when FTX and Alameda Research filed for bankruptcy.On December 18, Ellison struck a plea deal with prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, pleading guilty to seven charges including wire and securities fraud. These charges c…

This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with former NBA player and entrepreneur Baron Davis. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.When I was 3 years old, my grandfather built a basketball court for me for Christmas. That initiated my love for basketball. When I saw the court he’d built in his backyard, it was just like, “I’m going to do this every day.” It was the one thing he knew I needed.From there, it was every day, all day, basketball, basketball, basketball. I start…

When Rosemarie Palafox first heard about a social experiment where hundreds of Denver residents experiencing homelessness would be given free cash for a year, she thought it was too good to be true.“It was all over the news, and I had no idea why they were doing that project,” Palafox, a 43-year-old Native American born in Denver, told Insider. “But it’s freaking awesome.“For six months in 2022, Palafox had been living in a tent at one of Denver’s safe outdoor spaces, temporary shelters for unho…