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These Young Black People Are Real Geniuses

Graduation time honors the brightest, but these young people have been brilliant since birth.

All parents believe that their babies are geniuses, but these kids really are! From toddlers to college students, these young Black people have cracked thousands of years old math equations, been accepted to prestigious schools, and have high IQs than the most respected people in our societies. Here are their stories!

Alena Analeigh Wicker, 13, is the youngest Black person to ever be accepted into medical school. She is an undergraduate student at Arizona State University and Oakwood University and plans on attending medical school at Heersink School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2024.

In 2021, two-year-old Kashe Quest became the youngest American member of Mensa, an organization exclusively for people who score in or above the 98th percentile on IQ tests. Quest’s IQ test results were a whopping 146.

In April 2022, four Morehouse students became the winners of a $75,000 institutional grant for the 33rd Honda Campus All-Star Challenge, an academic competition for HBCUs. Stephen Agyepong ’22, Andre Brown ‘23, Isaiah Thompson ’22, and Kendall Wood ’23 used their combined knowledge of various topics like pop culture, science, and history. Their coach is Robert Myrick ‘13.

Damilola Awofisayo is a Duke University student, an Apple WWDC scholarship winner, and the founder of TecHacks. TecHacks is an all-female and non-binary student virtual hackathon with over 800 participants from 60 countries.

In April 2023, Howard University’s Esports “Cold Steel” team won $80,000 at the Mountain Dew Real Change esports tournament, competing against 15 other HBCUs.

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