Willa Brown is the first Black woman to hold a commercial pilot’s license in the United States. She earned a degree from Indiana State Teachers College, a master’s degree from the Aeronautical University, and a master’s in business administration from Northwestern University. She and her husband, Cornelius Coffey, created the Coffey School of Aeronautics to […]
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson Tweet
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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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The people’s power ‘is like the light of the sun, native, original, inherent, and unlimited by human authority,’ while ‘power in the rulers or governors of the people is like the reflected light of the moon, and is borrowed, delegated and limited by the grant of the people.’” -From, “At the Hands of Persons Unknown” […]
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“In 1949, the federal government enacted a new approach to the housing problems in cities: urban renewal. The approach was now both in philosophy- for the first time in America, government was given the right to seize an individual’s private property not for its own use but for reassignment to another individual for his use […]
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Joycelyn Harrison is a NASA engineer. She is also a prolific inventor. She has developed customized variations of piezoelectric materials. These materials will allow for remote self-repairing abilities, and synthetic muscles in robotics. Her research also includes: shaping reflectors, solar sails, and satellites. Joycelyn Harrison has a bachelor, master, and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from […]
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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” -Hermann Hesse Tweet
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“Don’t lose sight of common sense and discernment. Hang on to them, for they will refresh your soul.” -Proverbs 3:21 Tweet
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an author and an attorney. Born in 1858, he was admitted into the Ohio bar in 1887. Tweet
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“Our greatest weakness is giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -Thomas Edison Tweet
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