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Black History Fact Of The Day
Ruth Carol Taylor became the first African-American flight attendant in the United States. She is also a registered nurse and a journalist. In 1955, she graduated from the Bellevue School of Nursing. On February 11, 1958, she was on a flight from Ithaca to New York City as America’s first Black stewardess. Approximately six months […]
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“You’ll never see the follow-up stories about lottery winners. Why? Because then you would see that, in nine cases out of ten, all that money destroys people’s lives. People see what’s on the outside, and guys like myself make it look so wonderful and so desirable, and the average person doesn’t even realize that it’s […]
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“To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.”-Albert Einstein Tweet
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In addition to performing the first successful open heart surgery, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams co-founded the first African-American controlled hospital in the United States. The pioneering Provident Hospital, which was located on Chicago’s South Side, was also the first training facility for African American nurses in America. The hospital was said to have an extremely […]
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“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson 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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