Taking Home the Gold
Images: Reuters/Susana Vera
February is all about celebrating the history and achievements of the Black community.
🏆 Skating into history... This week, American athlete Erin Jackson became the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in speed skating after a nail-biting finish in which she won gold by less than one-tenth of a second.
- "I think what she did tonight is going to be a springboard to give so many little girls and boys the opportunity to look up to someone that they haven't been able to look at and relate to," Erin's teammate Brittany Bowe shared with Reuters after the race.
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