05/01/2026
Three Black children hold IQ scores higher than Einstein — Mensa confirmed all three.Ramarni Wilfred, Anala Beevers, and Alannah George have each been identified by Mensa — the organization that admits members scoring in the top two percent of IQ assessments — as exceptional intellects whose scores place them among the highest ever recorded.Ramarni Wilfred, a British teenager, scored 162 — higher than the estimated scores of both Albert Einstein and Bill Gates, and above the score of Isaac Newton as estimated by retrospective analysis. He has expressed ambitions of studying at Oxford and pursuing astrophysics. The score doesn't define the trajectory but it signals a mind operating at a level that most educational systems are structurally unprepared to fully serve.Anala Beevers was identifying alphabet letters at ten months and reciting numbers in both English and Spanish at eighteen months. By the time she was scored at over 145, she had already demonstrated the kind of accelerated developmental timeline that IQ assessment is designed to capture — language acquisition, pattern recognition, and memory operating significantly ahead of age norms.Alannah George scored 140 at four years old and taught herself to read before starting school. The self-teaching detail is worth noting specifically: reading is a skill most children acquire because they are explicitly taught its mechanics. Arriving at it independently indicates an unusual relationship between pattern recognition, symbol processing, and language comprehension that formal instruction typically builds across years.What these three children represent collectively is worth saying directly. In a culture where Black intellectual achievement is still regularly met with surprise, skepticism, or demands for proof that would not be applied to comparable achievement from white children, the confirmation by Mensa provides a form of institutional documentation that shouldn't be necessary but demonstrably is.Brilliance is not distributed by race. It never has been. These three children are not exceptions to a rule — they are evidence against a false one. Their documented achievement belongs to their individual stories first and to a broader record second.That record matters.
