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Robert Parris Moses was born on January 31, 1935, in Harlem, New York. He was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly known for his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Moses played a crucial role in organizing voter registration drives in Mississippi during the 1960s, despite facing immense danger and violence. He later founded the Algebra Project, an initiative aimed at improving math literacy among disadvantaged students, emphasizing the importance of education as a tool for social change.Despite his significant contributions, Moses is often overshadowed by more prominent civil rights leaders, but his impact on education and civil rights continues to resonate.

How do you think Robert Moses’ work with the Algebra Project has influenced education? Share your thoughts below!

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The donation is expected to support scholarships with $15 million, endowed professorships in artificial inteligence with $2 million, opportunities for international exchange with $2 million, and the Chancellor''s Speaker Series with $1 million.

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Eartha Kitt, Freda Payne, and Jayne Kennedy photographed by isaac sutton, 1974

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Roy Campanella was tough as nails. As a Negro Leaguer, he purportedly caught four games in one day, an early doubleheader in Cincinnati and a twi-nighter in Middletown, Ohio. And he claimed to have caught three doubleheaders in one day in winter ball. He endured repeated injuries to his fingers, hands, and legs, occupational hazards of working behind the bat, but in his last appearance he established a since-broken major-league record for durability by catching at least 100 games in nine years.If circumstances had been right, Campanella could have been the first black player in the big leagues. Back in 1943, he had been invited to Forbes Field to work out for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but team president William Benswanger succumbed to peer pressure and canceled the tryout.

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Josephine Henderson Heard was a Black teacher and poet. Born the daughter of two enslaved parents in Salisbury, North Carolina. After Emancipation, a goal was set for her to become a teacher.At age 21, she married William Henry Heard in 1882. She held teaching positions in many cities as she traveled with her husband, an AME Church leader. Her joy in teaching is reflected in the preface of her 1890 volume of poetry entitled Morning Glories.

She wrote, “from a heart that desires to encourage and inspire the youth of the Race.” The work contained seventy-two original poems by her. It was revised and expanded in 1891.

Her husband provides additional insight into her life, writing in his memoir, “She is scholarly and poetic, and her use of the English language, as well as the criticism of my sermons, have done much in making me the preacher they say I am."

Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, around 1921. Her poem "Black Sampson" is included in the anthology She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Janet Gray. (African American Registry, 2023)

12/19/2024

Anna Matilda ManginThis is her story.

Although she was of the state of Louisiana lineage, due to Anna as a baby was in Nantucket, Massachusetts, according to records she was listed as born free in 1844. As a young woman, she showed great creativity and intelligence. Her major contributions was as an Educator, Inventor and Caterer. She invented a kitchen tool she called the "pastry fork" in 1891 and received the patent for it on March 1, 1892.

The pastry fork had many uses, including beating eggs, thickening foods, makimg drawn butter, mashing potatoes, making salad dressings and most importantly, kneading pastry dough. The curve piece at the upper end of the handle is what Mrs. Mangin called the "cutter or trimmer" for pie crusts. The Pastry Fork the lives of women, Cooks, Bakers and Chefs. It eventually led to the Electric Mixer.

Mrs. Mangin was also active in the community. In 1907, she worked in the Woman''s Loyal Union that supported the Industrial and Protective Union House for girls. It was her mission to see to children of freed Enslaved people learn to read, write and be build up to believe in themselves.

Anna Matilda Mangin died in a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut on March 1, 1931.

The next time you''re cooking and you''re using what is similar to what was originally the Pastry Fork, remember Anna Matilda Mangin.

Black History is American History.

12/19/2024

Before the names Julia Child and Martha Stewart came about, there was Lena Richard. She was the first Black woman in America to host her own cooking television show. In the 1940''s, Blacks were still facing a lot of discrimination, including finding jobs and having careers. Lena was able to achieve much success.Not only was she on television, she also owned two restaurants, had a frozen food business, she wrote a cookbook that sold nationwide and she opened her own culinary school to teach cooking and home economics to aspiring Black chefs. Lena Richard was a forgotten pioneer. I think a documentary or biopic needs to be made on her just like Julia Child!!

12/17/2024

"Eugene Burkins (1877-1929), a native of New Orleans; was living with his father in Chicago in 1900 when he patènted the Burkins Automatic Machine Gùn. Although it performed to the high standards set by the military, he was unsuccessful in selling it. He wound up running a restaurant in Chicago, and subsequently dièd pènniless in Detroit."

12/17/2024

in 1925, Major L. Anderson II was born in Jacksonville, FL. Having a first name like ''Major'' must''ve been quite the experience when he was drafted at the age of 18 in 1943 and entered the Army Air Corps.Anderson received basic training at Keesler Air Field, Biloxi, MS and trained as a sheet metal worker. He was assigned as support personnel to the Ground Support Group of the 477th Bomber Group, 616th Squadron based at Godman Field, KY. His assignment was repairing bullet-hole punctures and damages to the B-25 Bomber Aircraft.

In March of 1946, Major Anderson was honorably discharged. He attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. from 1946-1949 majoring in Mechanical Engineering. In 1973, he received a Bachelor’s of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree from Federal City College, currently known as the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).

Anderson was often asked how he felt about having served a country that treated him poorly. Despite discrimination and segregation in America, he remarked, “I am proud to have served my country during a time of war and I am proud to be an American.”

Today we remember this remarkable man.

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Taral Hicks as Jane Williams in “A Bronx Tales.” ❤️

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Hip hop Legends 🙌🏾🔥Add 5 to complete this list 🎤

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"I run at 4 A.M. because I know my opponent is still asleep. It gives me an edge." This was Mike Tyson''s response when asked if he really trained every day at dawn. Tyson added, "If I find out one of my opponents runs at 4 A.M., I''ll start running at 2 A.M. And if someone trains at 2 A.M., I''ll stop sleeping altogether to keep training.""Without discipline, no matter how talented you are, you’re nothing." – Mike Tyson

In the image, heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is captured running his daily 5-8 km routine, with reporters documenting his intense training in 1987.

12/17/2024

Against all odds, Aya Osman, the resilient 18-year-old from Orange Park, Florida, emerges triumphant. Battling cancer and challenges, she not only graduated Summa Cum Laude but also secures a full scholarship to NYU. A beacon of perseverance and hope, Aya''s journey reminds us that dreams know no bounds. Congratulations, Aya, for showing us the power of unwavering determination and seizing the present to shape a brighter future.

12/16/2024

Dennis Rodman was built DIFFERENT 🏀😳⬇️

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HOWLIN'' WOLF (1910-1976) in the Army, around 1941. Born Chester Burnett in White Station, Mississippi, he learned and loved Blues music directly from Charley Patton; his first song was "Pony Blues." Wolf''s distinctive howl, he said, came from trying to yodel like Jimmie Rodgers. By 1948, he was playing with his band in Helena, Arkansas, and on KFFA. He recorded with Sam Phillips in Memphis in 1951 and soon moved to Chicago, creating a series of memorable hits on Chess Records that still resonate today, including "How Many More Years," "Meet Me at The Bottom," "Smokestack Lightnin''," and many more. There is no one like the Wolf!

12/16/2024

“What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one’s heroic ancestors. It’s astounding to me, for example, that so many people really appear to believe that the country was founded by a band of heroes who wanted to be free. That happens not to be true. What happened was that some people left Europe because they couldn’t stay there any longer and had to go someplace else to make it. That’s all. They were hungry, they were poor, they were convicts. Those who were making it in England, for example, did not get on the Mayflower. That’s how the country was settled. Not by Gary Cooper. Yet we have a whole race of people, a whole republic, who believe the myths to the point where even today they select political representatives, as far as I can tell, by how closely they resemble Gary Cooper. Now this is dangerously infantile, and it shows in every level of national life.”James Baldwin in a Talk to Teachers working in the New York Public School System on October 16, 1963 discussing the American Identity

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Lola Falanaborn September 11,1942in Camden ,Nj.
An American singer, dancer, and actress.
Falana''s father left Cuba to become a welder in the United States, where he met his wife. She spent most of her childhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. By the age of three she was dancing, and by age five she was singing in the church choir. By the time she was in junior high school, she was already dancing in nightclubs to which she was escorted by her mother. Pursuing a musical career became so important to Falana that, against her parents'' wishes, she left Germantown High School a few months before graduation and moved to New York City.
Her first dancing gig was at "Small''s Paradise" in Harlem. Dinah Washington, the “Queen of Blues”, was influential in fostering Lola’s early career.
While dancing in a nightclub, Falana was discovered by Sammy Davis Jr., who gave her a featured role in his 1964 Broadway musical Golden Boy on Broadway in 1964. She then toured Italy and won fame there in two Italian movies. She toured with the Tavares Brothers in the 1970s and married Feliciano "Butch" Tavares. In 1979 she became the highest-paid entertainer in Las Vegas, thus earning her the title "First Lady of Las Vegas".

12/14/2024

"William Lewis Moore fought for the rights of African Americans."He would often organise demonstrations for civil rights in Binghampton and became a member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which was very crucial and influential at the time.Dusk was fast approaching on the 23rd of April. 1963; Ellis Elrod was driving along a lonely two-lane stretch of U.S. Highway 11 in rural north eastern Alabama when he spotted a glimpse of something at the side of the road.
Elrod decided to turn his car around to get a better look at what he had seen. As his flashlights illuminated the area, he was met by a grisly scene. Lying at the side of the road, just underneath a walnut tree, was the body of Moore.
Alongside his bloody, lifeless, body was the two signs he had been proudly carrying just hours earlier. An autopsy concluded that Moore had been killed by two bullets; one entered above his left eyebrow and the other entered his throat. It was determined that the fatal shots had come from a .22-caliber automatic rifle.
"Moore purchased a bus ticket to Chattanooga, Tennessee, which is where he wanted to begin his walk to Jackson, Mississippi – of almost 400 miles."
He planned on walking 40 miles for 10 days. Tragically, Moore never got a chance to deliver the letter he planned to hand-deliver a letter to Gov. Ross (born in New York & grew up in Mississippi, he was horrified to witness Gov.
Ross Barnett giving pro segregation speeches as Confederate flags waved behind him in the wind) Barnett when he reached his destination; unfortunately he was shot dead while walking to his destination he was roughly 300 miles away from Jackson, Mississippi.
The man suspected of shooting him — twice in the head at close range — was Floyd Simpson, a Ku Klux Klan member but he wasn’t charged even though the police quickly identified him.
The murder sent shock-waves through the civil rights movement; the white supporters saw a Northern white man consumed by the violence that was mostly perpetrated against African Americans.
African Americans saw just how far segregationists would go. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

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