#BlackHistory #BlackStories #TheWeatherChannel #ByronAllen #TheGrio #Storyteller #bet
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #TheWeatherChannel #ByronAllen #TheGrio #Storyteller #bet
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BenjaminBanneker #BlackScientists #BlackInventors #Astronomy #solareclipse
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BenjaminBanneker #BlackScientists #BlackInventors #Astronomy #solareclipse2024
🤳🏿🤳🏿🤳🏿BLACK STORIES WE CAN ALL SHARE
👉🏿VIOLETTE NEATLEY ANDERSON was the FIRST BLACK WOMAN to practice law before the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
👉🏿She was a COURT REPORTER for 15 years before she decided to become a lawyer at almost 40💙
✍🏿sources: African-American Book of Days by Julia Steward + Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA + Kritical Race Theory YouTube + Messa Law
📸 via Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA
#BlackStories #BlackHistory #BlackLawyers #BlackWomen #VioletteNeatleyAnderson #chicagostylist
🤳🏿🤳🏿🤳🏿BLACK STORIES WE CAN ALL SHARE
👉🏿JOY SEWING recently became the FIRST BLACK NEWS COLUMNIST for HOUSTON CHRONICLE🩷🩷🩷
👉🏿On Sundays the Houston Chronicle has 1.4 MILLION READERS (825,000 daily)
💻They have nearly 95 MILLION PAGE VIEWS on the website EVERY MONTH
🗣️PLEASE SHARE HER STORY - joysewing
✍🏿sources: JoySewing.com + Houston Chronicle + Because of Them We Can
📸 via JoySewing.com
#BlackStories #BlackHistory #BlackJournalist #BlackWomen #JoySewing #Houston #Newspaper #readers
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS was passionate about educating Black women
👉🏿When she could not get a job as a teacher in DC schools she opened her own school
🩷In 1909 she opened the NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS in DC
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾NANNIE HELEN BURROUGHS was passionate about educating Black women
👉🏿When she could not get a job as a teacher in DC schools she opened her own school
🩷In 1909 she opened the NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS in DC
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾RODNEY WILLIAMS left Procter & Gamble to FOLLOW HIS DREAMS.
🤳🏿🤳🏿🤳🏿BLACK STORIES WE CAN ALL SHARE
👉🏿KWAKU ALSTON is a GLOBALLY KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER
📸When he was 12 his mother inherited his UNCLE’S CAMERA.
📸 KWAKU picked it up, dropped it, and broke it.😮
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
US SENATE SERIES PART ✌🏿of 🖐🏿
🗣️There have only been 12 BLACK SENATORS out of 2000+ senators
❓ What does a senator do🤷🏿♀️
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾RODNEY WILLIAMS left Procter & Gamble to FOLLOW HIS DREAMS.
👉🏿He is the CO-FOUNDER of LISNR and he raised $35 MILLION for this technology
‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾RODNEY WILLIAMS left Procter & Gamble to FOLLOW HIS DREAMS.
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
🏈 In 1988 DOUG WILLIAMS became the FIRST BLACK QUARTERBACK to start, play, WIN, and become MVP in a Super Bowl
🏈 In 1986 - as a backup quarterback - he only threw ONE PASS the entire season and it was incomplete (wasn’t his fault though😝)
🏈In 1987 his Washington coach told him he was going to be traded to the RAIDERS but the coach changed his mind.
🦷The day before the Super Bowl Doug had a FOUR HOUR ROOT CANAL
🗣️”Before every game I would eat a bag of @Hersheys Kisses….” - Doug Williams (Lesley Visser Official)
*he still ate them after the ROOT CANAL but on the opposite side😘😘😘
🗣️”In the 2nd quarter we only made 18 plays but SCORED 35 POINTS.” - Doug Williams (Lesley Visser Official)
🏈🏈🏈 After the game he saw his former coach EDDIE ROBINSON (Grambling State University) in the tunnel (he didn’t even know he was there) and they both cried🩷🩷🩷
👉🏾sources: Washington Commanders + ABC News | LZ Granderson | LA Times + WUSA9 + Lesley Visser Official YouTube + Wikipedia
📸 Elise Amendola | AP Photos + Getty Images
#BlackStories #BlackHistory #NFL #WashingtonCommanders #SuperBowl #Quarterback #DougWilliams #mvpgetaways
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾MRS. DOROTHY B. PORTER WESLEY was the FIRST BLACK WOMAN to receive a LIBRARY OF SCIENCE DEGREE from Columbia University
👉🏿She spent 43 YEARS curating & cataloguing Howard University’s Library - THE MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER
👉🏿she started with around 3,000 items - when she left sources say it was close to TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND cataloged items 🩷🩷🩷
📚Janet Sims-Wood wrote a book because she had such love for her - Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University | BUILDING A LEGACY OF BLACK HISTORY
🩷Mrs. Porter Wesley helped COUNTLESS PEOPLE with researching and learning about our culture
🙏🏿Her collection is at Yale in the Beinecke Library - there are about 137 boxes according to Ms. Sims-Wood
🗣️”The only rewarding thing for me is to BRING LIGHT to information that no one knows!” - Mrs. Dorothy B. Porter Wesley
👉🏿sources: JSTOR Daily + Wikipedia + Library of Congress YouTube + Knarrative YouTube (Dr. Greg Carr & @karenhuntershow) + Beinecke Library at Yale YouTube + United Way Broward County YouTube + Howard University | The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center + Union Institute & University + Historians.org + Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University | BUILDING A LEGACY OF BLACK HISTORY by Janet Sims-Wood
📸 Howard University | The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center + Coni Porter via Beinecke Library at Yale
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BlackLit #BlackCulture #DorothyPorterWesley #BlackLibrarians #bookers
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
👉🏾MRS. DOROTHY B. PORTER WESLEY was the FIRST BLACK WOMAN to receive a LIBRARY OF SCIENCE DEGREE from Columbia University
👉🏿She spent 43 YEARS curating & cataloguing Howard University’s Library - THE MOORLAND-SPINGARN RESEARCH CENTER
👉🏿she started with around 3,000 items - when she left sources say it was close to TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND cataloged items 🩷🩷🩷
📚Janet Sims-Wood wrote a book because she had such love for her - Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University | BUILDING A LEGACY OF BLACK HISTORY
🩷Mrs. Porter Wesley helped COUNTLESS PEOPLE with researching and learning about our culture
🙏🏿Her collection is at Yale in the Beinecke Library - there are about 137 boxes according to Ms. Sims-Wood
🗣️”The only rewarding thing for me is to BRING LIGHT to information that no one knows!” - Mrs. Dorothy B. Porter Wesley
👉🏿sources: JSTOR Daily + Wikipedia + Library of Congress YouTube + Knarrative YouTube (Dr. Greg Carr & @karenhuntershow) + Beinecke Library at Yale YouTube + United Way Broward County YouTube + Howard University | The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center + Union Institute & University + Historians.org + Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University | BUILDING A LEGACY OF BLACK HISTORY by Janet Sims-Wood
📸 Howard University | The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center + Coni Porter via Beinecke Library at Yale
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BlackLit #BlackCulture #DorothyPorterWesley #BlackLibrarians #bookedandbusy
🎥Netflix + Live w/Kelly & Ryan
#BlackHistory #BlackStories #BlackFirsts #BlackCulture #BlackFilm #ShirleyChisholm #ReginaKing #ReinaKing #BlackFilmmakers #blackwomenshealth
🤎 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
US SENATE SERIES PART 3 of 5#viralreel #wealth #fuphotographyth #videolth #FUPhotography
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🧡 ‘BLACK STORIES We Should All Know’
🧡REGINA KING’S father chose her name because it means QUEEN in Italian
#viralreel #wealth #fuphotographyth #videolth #FUPhotography
