“In 1858, 75 percent of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance policies were written on slaves.” – From, “Medical Apartheid” By: Harriet Washington. So many American corporations were built on the backs of slaves. Tweet
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Black History Fact Of The Day
PhD, Percy Julian, created cortisone. Cortisone is used to treat arthritis and other inflammatory diseases. Tweet
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“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is… A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That […]
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“Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable. This is educational atrophy. It is generally known that if an arm or a leg is bound so that it cannot be used, eventually it becomes unusable. The same is true of intelligence. Children themselves are not fooled by the various euphemisms […]
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Engineer, Archibald Alexander, designed several locations including: the Tidal Basin Bridge in Washington, D.C., Whitehurst Freeway in Washington, D.C., and an airfield in Tuskegee, Alabama. Tweet
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“Power must be understood to be used properly, if it is to avoid dilution into the appearance of power. Power, misunderstood or miscalculated, increases the dangers of its explosive dissipation or stagnation.” -Kenneth B. Clark Tweet
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