Positive People Association

03/24/2025

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03/23/2025

A clip of the City of Huntington city council meeting on the budget with Mayor Patrick Farrell speaking to council for Budget approval. Many residents showed up to the city hall to express their feeling, concerns, and perspectives of the new administration.
PPA was able to speak with a few of the people. Monday meeting will have the vote.

03/05/2025

Huntington Prep Vs. Bristol Prep ( USE THIS LINK! )

Located in Huntington, WEST VIRGINIA. Watch live events, past livestreams and recent highlights.

03/04/2025

Huntington Prep Vs. Bristol Prep

Located in Huntington, WEST VIRGINIA. Watch live events, past livestreams and recent highlights.

03/04/2025

Huntington Prep Vs. Bristol Prep Academy

Located in Huntington, WEST VIRGINIA. Watch live events, past livestreams and recent highlights.

02/22/2025

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02/17/2025

THE FIRST AMERICAN BLACK FILM MAKER

OSCAR MICHEAUX. He was the most successful black writer, producer and director in the United States until his death in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1951.Eventually Hollywood recognized both Micheaux’s genius and his crucial role in opening opportunities for Black Americans in front of and behind the motion picture camera. In 1987, Oscar Micheaux was memorialized with a Hollywood Walk of Fame “Star.” Two years later, he was given posthumous awards by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame (1989) and the Director’s Guild of America (1989). Each year Gregory, South Dakota, Micheaux’s adopted home town, stages the Oscar Micheaux Film Festival.

02/16/2025

02/11/2025

Everyone has heard of Black Wall Street.Meet the founder, O.W. Gurley.In 1905 Gurley and his wife sold their property in Noble County and moved 80 miles to the oil boom town of Tulsa. Gurley purchased 40 acres of land in North Tulsa and established his first business, a rooming house on a dusty road that would become Greenwood Avenue. He subdivided his plot into residential and commercial lots and eventually opened a grocery store.

As the community grew around him, Gurley prospered. Between 1910 and 1920, the Black population in the area he had purchased grew from 2,000 to nearly 9,000 in a city with a total population of 72,000. The Black community had a large working-class population as well as doctors, lawyers, and other professionals who provided services to them. Soon the Greenwood section was dubbed “Negro Wall Street” by Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington.

Greenwood, now called Black Wall Street, was nearly self-sufficient with Black-owned businesses, many initially financed by Gurley, ranging from brickyards and theaters to a chartered airplane company. Gurley built the Gurley Hotel at 112 N. Greenwood and rented out spaces to smaller businesses. His other properties included a two-story building at 119 N. Greenwood, which housed the Masonic Lodge and a Black employment agency. He was also one of the founders of Vernon AME Church.

02/05/2025

02/03/2025

February 2, 1897: Alfred Cralle was granted a U.S. patent for his invention of an ice cream mold and disher.. His functional design is reflected in modern ice cream scoops.

Alfred L. Cralle was a businessman and inventor. Cralle worked with his father in the carpentry trade as a young man and became interested in mechanics. He was sent to Washington, D.C. where he attended Wayland Seminary, one of a number of schools founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society to help educate African-Americans after the Civil War.

Alfred Cralle settled in Pittsburgh where he served as a porter in Markell Brothers' drug store and the St. Charles Hotel. While working as a porter, he noticed that ice cream, which had become a very popular, was difficult to dispense. It tended to stick to spoons and ladles, usually requiring use of two hands and at least two implements to serve.

INVENTION:
Cralle invented a mechanical device now known as the ice cream scoop and applied for a patent. His invention, originally called an “Ice Cream Mold and Disher” was designed to be able to keep ice cream and other foods from sticking, and easy to operate with one hand.

He designed it to be strong and durable, effective, inexpensive, so it could be constructed in almost any desired shape, such as a cone or a mound, with no delicate parts that could break or malfunction.

On June 10 1896, Alfred applied for a patent on his invention. He was awarded patent #576395 on February 2, 1897. His patent was an ice cream scoop with a built-in scraper to allow for one-handed operation.

LATER IN LIFE:
Cralle become a general manager for the Afro-American Financial, Accumulating, Merchandise and Business association.

Alfred L. Cralle died from tuberculosis on May 6, 1919, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.