Historically Black college, Xavier University, is known for having one of the highest success rates of getting their students into medical school. Tweet
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Prolific inventor George Washington Carver reportedly invented 300 derivative peanut products, 118 derivative products from the sweet potato, and 75 derivative products from the pecan. Tweet
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In 1983, Dr. Elmer and Joanne Martin founded the Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore. According to The National Great Blacks In Wax Musuem’s website, they founded the museum with the following objectives in mind: 1) To stimulate an interest in African American history by revealing the little-known, often-neglected facts of history. 2) To […]
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Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was the first college founded for African-Americans. It was founded in 1854. Alumni of the university include: Thurgood Marshall and Langston Hughes. Tweet
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Harriet Tubman’s birthname was Araminta Ross. She lived to be 93 years old. During her tenure of freeing slaves, she reportedly made 19 trips to the south and freed her family and at least 300 other slaves. Tweet
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Figure skater Debi Thomas was the first African-American to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. She is now an orthopedic surgeon. Tweet
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“Many people assume that belief in the theft of black bodies is paranoia born of a violent racist history. But Jamie Gaines and Sarah Cox know from experience that black cadavers tend to disappear. In January 1998, the sisters frowned as they surveyed the crumbling headstones, trash, and tangled weeds strangling Greenwood, the Birmingham, Alabama, […]
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A Brown University student recently discovered a recording of a Malcolm X speech that was made at the university on May 11, 1961. On that date, a 35 year-old Malcolm X delivered the speech to a group of mostly college students. The recording was found when a student found a reference to the speech in […]
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The song “Young, Gifted, and Black” was written by Weldon Irvine in honor of playright Lorraine Hansberry. The song was originally recorded by Nina Simone. Cover versions were also recorded by Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway. Tweet
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Granville Woods created several inventions. More than 12 of his inventions improved the way electric railway cars function. He also created: a telegraph, a telephone, and a chicken egg incubator. Tweet
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