Brooklyn native, Aprille Ericsson, is the first female, and the first African-American female, to receive a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Howard University. She is also the first African-American female to receive a Ph.D. in engineering at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Tweet
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Quote Of The Day
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” -Atticus Finch Tweet
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“Congress opened debate on passage of a new Internal Security Act, the infamous McCarren Act, which equated dissent with treason and established concentration camps to detain subversives in time of national emergency. When it passed in September, Truman vetoed it, at some political risk, but the House overrode him. The days when Robeson could count […]
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“Robeson spoke out against New Zealand’s discrimination against the Maoris and Australia’s more overt brutality to its own native population, the aborigines. There were about seventy-five thousand aborigines in a total Australian population of ten million, driven off their land into a desert interior scarce in food and water and nearly devoid of the game […]
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John Lee Love invented the portable pencil sharpener. He received a patent for it on November 23, 1897. Tweet
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON! (EACH ONE TEACH ONE OR TWO!) THIS IS PHASE ONE ON HOW WE CAN HELP TO STRENGTHEN & EMPOWER OUR COMMUNITY: The 2008 not guilty verdict in the Sean Bell case evoked outrage, emotion, and debate. It is not an anomaly that the police officers involved in the Sean Bell slaying […]
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“Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.” Tweet
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A television show, “The Unit,” has an episode where military units form various countries around the world participate in a global war game. The game mimics a real war, and is seen as the military olympics. It also serves as practice for combat. Although this scenario played out in the fantasy-world of television, war games […]
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On this day in 1989, David Dinkins was voted the first African-American mayor of New York City. Also, on this day in 1989, L Douglas Wilder became the first African-American governor of Virgina since Reconstruction. Tweet
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“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” -Proverbs 23:7 Tweet
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