In 2007, Barrington Irving successfully took a flight around the world. He became the youngest person to pilot a plane around the world solo. His trip lasted 96 days and 150 hours. He took his flight in a Columbia 400 plane that he named “Inspiration.”
Barrington Irving turned down several football scholarship to focus on aviation. He also founded Experience Aviation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping Black youth pursue careers in aviation.
“There is no other American community in which the huge bulk of local business, from the smallest to the largest, is operated by outsiders.” -Claude McKay
Scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto, did an experiment on the power of words and intentions. He used water as his test subject. This was pertinent because the human body is mostly composed of water.
Dr. Masaru spoke loving words to one glass of water, and hateful words to another. He found that the water that received loving thoughts and words formed beautiful crystals; while the degraded glass of water formed deformed, murky molecules. Dr Masaru discusses the results of his experiment in his book, “The Hidden Messages In Water.”
In 2004, Phylicia Rashad became the first African-American to win a Tony Award for best actress in a play.
“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never allow us to bring about genuine change.” -Audre Lorde
On this day in 1925, civil rights activist, Medgar Evers was born.
…the book “Slavery: The African American Psychic Trauma,” (Authors: Sultan Latif & Naimah Latif) explains why. An excerpt from the book states:
“America’s police patrol actually grew out of the south. Up until that time, justice was administered by local sheriffs and deputies. After the Revolutionary War, most states developed some type of militia, in case armed soldiers were needed for national defense. But the institution of slavery required that some type of organized law enforcement would have to be instituted on a regular basis, to protect white slave owners against massive uprisings and escapes. In “From Slavery To Freedom,” Franklin describes how the slave patrols worked: ‘One of the devices set up to enforce the slave codes and thereby maintain the institution of slavery was the patrol, which has been aptly described as an adaptation of the militia. counties were usually divided into “beats” or areas of patrol, and free White men were called upon to serve for a stated period of time, 1, 3, or 6 months. These patrols were to apprehend slaves out of place and return them to their masters or commit them to jail; to visit slave quarters and search for various kinds of weapons that might be used in an uprising; and to visit assemblies of slaves where disorder might develop or where conspiracy might be planned.'”
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.” -William Drummond
JUSTICE:
“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to ‘draw interest,’ to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic and political outcomes.” – From, “Blueprint For Black Power” By: Amos Wilson
In 1919, Alice Parker invented a new and improved gas heating furnace that allowed for central heating.
