Month February 2020

Inspirational Nugget: Amariyanna (Mari) Copeny Flint, Michigan, has been without clean water for over four years. In 2016, at just 8 years old, Mari Copeny wrote a letter to President Obama, asking him to meet with Flint activists in Washington,… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Bana Alabed, 8 years… At the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony, Common and Andra Day performed their Oscar-Nominated song “Stand Up For Something” with a group of activists behind them. The youngest was 8-year-old Bana Alabed, a Syrian refugee… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Xiuhtezcatl Roske-Martinez, 17… His powerful speech at the United Nations in 2015—when he was just fifteen years old—cut straight to heart of the biggest threat of the world’s inability to take meaningful action on climate change: “What’s at stake right… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Heroic: 12-year-old boy carries a disabled friend to class for 6 years A 12-year-old boy in China named Xu has helped his disabled friend attend classes by carrying him on a daily basis for six years straight. He… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Christian Pulisic, 19 The soccer prodigy, already one of the sport’s most promising young players, is poised to become America’s first top-flight international star. Pulisic, who plays for both the U.S. national team and in Germany’s top pro… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Shawn Mendes, 19 And the Canadian singer has no plans to slow down. “I’m just honing and getting better at my craft,” he says of writing songs for his as-yet-unannounced third LP. “So I hope what comes out… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: 8-year-old Ghanaian pupil awarded for blowing U.S school exam after just 1 month of joining the class A Ghanaian student based in New Rochelle in the United States of America, Maame Akua Aseda Manukure has excelled in her… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nuggets: Steve Lacy, 19 When Lacy first set out to make music, he couldn’t even afford a laptop, let alone professional recording equipment. So instead, he turned his iPhone into a portable studio—using apps to make original drum patterns… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Muzoon Almellehan, 19 For the millions of children living in refugee camps, the outlook is bleak: only half are enrolled in primary school and less than a quarter in secondary school, which severely limits their upward mobility. “They… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Sydney McLaughlin, 18 She competed for the University of Kentucky before turning professional. It’s no wonder: as the first repeat winner of the Gatorade National High School Athlete of the Year Award, the youngest U.S. track and field Olympian since… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Brooklyn Beckham, 18 As the son of footballer David and pop star-turned-fashion maverick Victoria, Beckham was never going to live an ordinary life. Case in point: although he just started his first year as a photography major at… Continue Reading →

Inspirational Nugget: Sydney McLaughlin, 18 She competed for the University of Kentucky before turning professional. It’s no wonder: as the first repeat winner of the Gatorade National High School Athlete of the Year Award, the youngest U.S. track and field Olympian since… Continue Reading →