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Transforming Your Life with Dr. Malaika is a weekly podcast that explores various topics from a soci

11/03/2024

Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach who is currently the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks. Staley won three Olympic gold medals with Team USA as a player and later was head coach of another U.S. gold-medal winning team. Staley was elected to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the 2004 Summer Olympics. After playing point guard for the University of Virginia under Debbie Ryan, and winning the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, she went on to play professionally in the American Basketball League and the WNBA. In 2011, fans named Staley one of the Top 15 players in WNBA history. Staley was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. She was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.

07/03/2024

Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner (May 17, 1912 – January 13, 2006) was an African-American inventor most noted for her development of the sanitary belt. Racial discrimination prevented its adoption for thirty years.

She was born in Monroe, North Carolina and credited her father, Sidney Nathaniel Davidson (June 1890-November 1958), with giving her a thirst for discovering things. Her sister, Mildred Davidson Austin Smith (1916–1993), was also an inventor.

She invented the sanitary belt with moisture-proof napkin pocket. The sanitary napkin wasn’t used until 1956, thirty years after she had first invented it. The company that first showed interest in her invention rejected it after they discovered that she was an African American woman. Between 1956 and 1987 she received five patents for her household and personal item creations. She invented a bathroom tissue holder which she patented with patent number US 4354643, on October 19, 1982 and a back washer mounted on the shower or bathtub wall, which she patented in 1987. She also patented the carrier attachment for an invalid walker in 1959.

05/03/2024

In 1939, Marjorie Joyner was anticipating a simpler way for women to curl their hair. Gaining inspiration from a pot roast cooking pan, Joyner designed an apparatus that would curl hair thus enabling hairstyles to last longer. She later added a scalp protector to improve comfortability.

Though the permanent wave design was patented, the credit was awarded to Madame C.J. Walker and Joyner received little compensation for her invention.

In 1967, Joyner founded the United Beauty School Owners and Teachers Association. She also helped to develop the National Council of Negro Women, formed a sorority and fraternity – Alpha Chi Pi Omega and headed the Chicago Defender Charity network which provided proceeds to various schools. In 1987, the permanent wave design and a mockup of her salon were featured at the Smithsonian Institution.

Joyner was born in Monterey, Virginia in 1896. In 1916 she moved to Chicago where she studied cosmetology. In the same year, she graduated from the A.B. Molar Beauty School – being the first black person to do so. Additionally, she drafted the initial cosmetology laws for the state of Illinois.

In 1977, Joyner was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Bethune-Cookman College.

Joyner died of heart failure on December 27, 1994, in Chicago, Illinois. She was ninety-eight.

03/03/2024

Dr. Myrlie Louise Evers–Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963. She was also chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on topics related to civil rights and her husband’s legacy. On January 21, 2013, she delivered the invocation at the second inauguration of Barack Obama.

After Byron De La Beckwith’s (the accused murderer of her husband Medgar) second trial in 1967, she moved with her children to Claremont, California, and emerged as a civil rights activist in her own right. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Pomona College. She spoke on behalf of the NAACP and in 1967 she co-wrote For Us, the Living, which chronicled her late husband’s life and work. She also made two unsuccessful bids for U.S. Congress. From 1968 to 1970, Evers was the director of planning at the center for Educational Opportunity for the Claremont Colleges.

From 1973 to 1975, Evers was the vice-president for advertising and publicity at the New York-based advertising firm, Seligman and Lapz. In 1975, she moved to Los Angeles to become the national director for community affairs for the Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). At ARCO she was responsible for developing and managing all the corporate programs. This included overseeing funding for community projects, outreach programs, public and private partnership programs and staff development. She helped secure money for many organizations such as the National Woman’s Educational Fund, and worked with a group that provided meals to the poor and homeless.

02/03/2024

Angela Davis, an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author, was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944. Angela was exposed to both racism and activism at an early age. Birmingham was one of the most racially segregated cities in the country. Angela’s neighborhood was nicknamed “Dynamite Hill” because the Ku Klux Klan often attacked the homes of Black residents with bombs.

As a high school junior, Angela participated in a program that paired Black students from the South with white families in the North. The goal was to integrate northern schools and connect more white Northerners to the Southern Black experience. Angela lived with a family in Greenwich Village, New York City. The school she attended was very progressive and reinforced the values instilled in Angela by her parents. She joined the school’s communist youth group.

Angela earned a scholarship to study French Literature at Brandeis University in Massachusetts. After graduation, she studied in Germany and completed a PhD in philosophy. Angela Davis became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. Known for books like Women, Race & Class, she has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines.

After spending time traveling and lecturing, Davis returned to teaching. She was a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught courses on the history of consciousness, retiring in 2008. Davis has continued to lecture at many prestigious universities, discussing issues regarding race, the criminal justice system and women’s rights.

In addition to being a co-founder of Critical Resistance, an organization that aims to end the prison industrial complex, Davis is the author of several books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974), Women, Race, and Class (1980), Women, Culture and Politics(1989), Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Abolition Democracy (2005), and The Meaning of Freedom (2012).

01/03/2024

Amy Ashwood Garvey was born Amy Ashwood in Port Antonio, Jamaica, on January 10, 1897, the only daughter of the three children of businessman Michael Delbert Ashwood and his wife, Maudriana Thompson. As a child, Amy was told by her grandmother that she was of Ashanti descent. Taken to Panama as an infant, she returned in 1904 to Jamaica, and attended the Westwood High School for Girls in Trelawny, where she met Marcus Garvey, with whom she founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914. The UNIA was the most influential anti-colonial organization in Jamaica up to 1938. Its legacy lies in giving women an opportunity to be leaders and influence in the public sphere. At the age of 17, while in UNIA, Amy Ashwood wrote romantic letters to Marcus, in which she said: “Our joint love for Africa and our concern for the welfare of our race urged us to immediate action.” She organised a women’s section of the UNIA, and in 1918, she moved to the United States, where she worked as Garvey’s aide and as Secretary of the UNIA’s New York City branch. In 1919, she was made secretary of the Black Star Line and became one of its first directors. Amy Ashwood did move on to become a pan-Africanist, politician, cultural feminist and feminist in the U.S., Jamaica and England.

27/02/2024

26/02/2024

Peeling back the layers of self-care: Self-care involves taking care of your physical, mental, and emotional well-being to maintain a healthy lifestyle. On the other hand, narcissism typically involves an excessive interest in oneself and a lack of empathy for others. While self-care is important for overall well-being, it's essential to ensure that it doesn't tip over into narcissistic behaviors, where one's focus becomes solely on themselves at the expense of others. Balancing self-care with empathy and consideration for others is key.

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