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Georgia Teen’s Letter To God Lands In Hands Of Minister
11-Year Old Becomes Youngest Female Rapper To Get Empire Record Deal
BALLOONS
MYKEHIA CURRY
ATLANTA, GA — Alyana High, an 11-year-old girl most popularly known as ‘Lay Lay,’ became the youngest female rapper to sign with a major record label. She announced the news on Instagram with a photo inside the office of music company Empire, with whom she signed a contract with.
“It’s official!!! I am the YOUNGEST FEMALE RAP ARTIST to sign a record deal,” she wrote in the caption of her Instagram post. “Look out for my first single ‘Go Lay Lay Go’ ALBUM ON THE WAY!!!”
Lay Lay, who now has over 310,000 followers and count- ing, was first noticed when her father recorded her freestyle version of rap artist BlocBoy JB’s “Shoot” and posted it on Twitter. The tweet went viral and was re-tweeted over 100,000 times. Since then, she
The program wants to see young men of color lead the way in technology.
It’s no secret that the tech- nology sector suffers from a lack of diversity– but one pro- gram is showing young Black men how to become bosses, by making them all star coders.
The non-profit organiza- tion All Star Code– founded by former business journalist Christina Lewis– recently took over the Hamptons to cel- ebrate its accomplishments in bringing young men of color into the technology arena, through computer science ed- ucation and enrichment.
The organization hosted their Fifth Annual Summer Benefit to raise funds and honor Van Jones, president and founder of the non- profit, Yes We Code, and Reshma Saujani, founder
An 18-year-old Mykehia Curry recently discovered that God truly works in mys- terious ways after experienc- ing a miracle that will help her first year of college run smoothly.
The Macon, Georgia-na- tive is making national head- lines for writing a letter to God asking for help paying for college tuition and dorm supplies. She tied the note to balloons; assuming no one would ever read it. But a min- ister found it and answered her prayer.
Curry will be the first member of her family to at- tend college. She took out student loans to pay for tu- ition and housing at Albany State University, but she was short on the various supplies she’ll need as a young woman living away from home for the first time.
So, she hit up the Lord Almighty via a handwritten
prayer attached to some mylar balloons and sent it floating toward the heavens.
“God help me go to college. God this is me again, please help me get everything I need to leave Wednesday. I love you, Amen,” the note reads.
“I am the first one in my family to go to college and I’m doing this so my little brother can have a bet- ter life. I have a 7-year-old lit- tle brother,” said Curry, who is pursuing a degree in nurs- ing.
“I just thought somebody may pick it up and throw it in the trash,” she admitted.
But Jerome Jones, a part-time minister at Spring- field Baptist in Monticello, found the note by a dumpster and once he read it, both he and his church decided to help.
“It was just there by the dumpster. I walked over and picked it up and there it was.
It was God calling me saying, ‘You need to answer this,’ and I did,” Jones said.
Curry outlined in her let- ter the items she needed most for her dorm: “A refrigerator, a comforter, school supplies.”
Once Jones tracked her down at her home in Macon, he surprised the teen with a mini-fridge and comforter.
“It was beautiful. It’s kind of hard to explain. She was like, ‘Is this mine for real?’ and I said, ‘It’s yours. God an- swers prayers,” Jones said. “I like helping people, espe- cially young people. They’re our future.”
The minister says he plans to stay in touch with Curry offered to help her if ever she needs anything else to further her education goals.
If you would like to donate useful items for her freshman year, Curry can be reached via her email: mykehi- acurry6@gmail.com.
Black-Owned Gourmet Burger Company Releases New Line of Turkey Burgers
Teaching Black Boys To Shine In Tech: All Star Code Celebrates In The Hamptons
Lay Lay, 11-Year-Old Female Rapper
posts a new freestyle almost every Friday.
Born in Houston, Texas, Lay Lay now resides in At- lanta with her family to focus more on her career and to ac- complish her dream of becom- ing a famous rap artist.
and CEO of Girls Who Code. The event was hosted by Award Winning Journalist and Executive Producer Soledad O’Brien, who shared with theGrio the importance of mentorship programs like All
Star Code.
“It’s been proven over and
over many times, that mentor- ing is a key component to suc- cess for everybody,” says O’Brien.
During the gala, Lewis ex- plains what inspired her to cre- ate an organization for men of color interested in the tech in- dustry.
“I wanted to invest in young men of color and teach them computer science in a way that is rigorous and inten- sive,” Lewis told theGrio.
To learn more about the organization and how you can get involved you can visit All- StarCode.com.
CHARLESTON, SC — Chevalo and Monique Wilsondebriano and their children recently made his- tory as they watched their new turkey burgers come down the production line for the first time.
The family, owners of Charleston Gourmet Burger Company, debuted their new line of turkey burgers to a na- tional TV audience on QVC’s Gourmet Holiday Show ear- lier this week.
Chevalo, Monique and the family were also recently featured in the July 2018 issue of Better Homes & Gar- dens magazine in which their burgers were declared the “Juiciest Hamburger in the Country”.
“People have always loved our turkey burgers,” says Monique, who sold them along side their beef burgers when they began at local
From (left) Chevalo and Monique Wilsondebriano, owners of Charleston Gourmet Burger Company; (right) their children watching their new turkey burgers come down the production line for the first time.
farmers markets. “Sometimes we’d run out
of our traditional beef burg- ers and customers would try the turkey. When they tried it, they loved it, and they all came back asking for the turkey burgers over and over again.”
The couple’s Charleston
Gourmet Burger products can be purchased in Kroger stores around the country, Lowe’s Home Improvement stores next to the grills, select Wal-Mart, and Whole Foods locations, as well direct on- line via their website www.CharlestonGourmet- Burger.com
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