“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
Activist Fannie Lou Hamer published her autobiography, “To Praise Our Bridges” in 1967. Tweet
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“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.” -Lena Horne Tweet
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William Harwell created an attachment for the arm of the shuttle. This apparatus is used to capture satellites. Tweet
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“Anybody can become angry- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way- that is not within everybody’s power, and is not easy.” -Aristotle Tweet
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“You are the offspring of ancestors who would not die. Some people say one million Africans died in the slave trade. Others say that it was equivalent to the six million Jews that died in Germany. Others have increased the figures to 20 million. Some say it’s 40 to 60 million. Others feel that it […]
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Inventor and physicist, Dr. George Carruthers helped to invent the lunar surface ultraviolet cameras. 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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“It is important to note that the rise in crack cocaine trafficking in inner-city communities coincided with the calculated deemphasis on urban policy and the systematic gutting of social and economic support programs designed to ameliorate the plight of poor people, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color.” -Ron Daniels Tweet
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Dick Gregory discusses: The link between violence and pollution, why British police don’t carry guns, the insult of “Black-on-Black crime,” rap vs. the blues, the determiners of public policy, Black colleges, the danger of bad information, the physical effects of stress. Tweet
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