Our Top 5 Stories Of 2022

As we move into 2023, TheVillageCelebration takes one last look at 2022 by reviewing our Top 5 Stories.

1.Leading the list was a major first for African American women, the appointment of Lisa Cook to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

2.We profiled a group of new activists, and readers flocked to the article featuring Kansas City’s Ryan Sorrells. 

3.“The Mink Slide” continues to build a following as the film about a brave group of African American WWII veterans and the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s triumph over racism is introduced to audiences nationwide.
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4.In May TheVillageCelebration contributor Byron McCauley wrote of a beloved aunt’s death by suicide in an article detailing the anguish suffered by many who experience emotional challenges and those who love them. 

5.Our Top 5 ends as it began — with a celebration of Black women.  On June 30 the first African American woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, took the oath of office.