“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” -Albert Einstein Tweet
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Riddle Me This: The Name Game Edition
I came across a book excerpt (included below), that states that the “Wheel of Fortune” was once the name of a slave ship. I wonder if the creators of the long-running game show of the same name are aware of this. The book excerpt is as follows: “Needing funds for his business, Nicholas Brown fitted […]
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On this day in 1922; bassist, activist, composer, writer, and bandleader Charles Mingus was born. Tweet
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“The ego must suffer in direct proportion to its externally directed destructiveness.” -Karl Menninger Tweet
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[ORIGINALLY POSTED ON: 12/14/08] As we go about our lives everyday, we are creating history that future generations will talk about, analyze, and possibly bolster. Generations yet unborn, will play a hand in how they honor current events that they are not even alive to witness. This is the baton that lays in wait to […]
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“The two principal New York penny papers of the 1830s, The Sun and The Herald, found readers among artisans and other workers, while The Herald also drew businessmen. The did not show the same interest, however, in broadening their audience across racial lines; indeed, it was The Sun’s refusal to publish a letter from a […]
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“The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” -Robert Frost Tweet
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“…Perhaps Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) best exemplified the dubious protection of parental consent, which it was careful to elicit when it began its “Repair and Maintenance Study” in the mid-1990s. Researchers approached black families in 108 units of decrepit housing encrusted with crumbling, peeling lead paint. Lead paint is a notorious cause of acute […]
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Peter J. Delfyett developed “the worlds fastest, most powerful modelocked semiconductor laser diode.” [SIDEBAR: Don’t ask me what that is or how it functions. Lol.] In 2004, Dr. Delfyett was named one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science by Science Spectrum Magazine and Career Communications Group. He has also received: The National […]
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“God made us in his own image, and he had some purpose when he thus created us; then why should we seek to destroy our identity?” -Marcus Garvey Tweet
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