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Black Business Spotlight: Votum Construction
A black-woman owned construction company. Owned and created by Vernice Bradley. 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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“We never need to look outside ourselves for the ultimate answers. Our own instincts about what is best for us are always better than somebody else’s. Because our own instincts are always more in touch with our deepest needs. Always…The best decisions you ever make in your life happen when you go with your gut […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Footwear Additives
In 1994, Henry Chriss received a patent for his invention of footwear additives which allows footwear to be made out of recycled materials. Tweet
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“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” -Frederick Douglass Tweet
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“One day a friend asked me why I didn’t wear my hair in an Afro, natural. The thought had honestly never occurred to me. In those days, there weren’t too many Afros on the set. But the more I thought about it, the better it sounded. I had always hated frying my hair- burnt ears, […]
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“It had never occurred to me that hundreds of Black people had got together to fight for their freedom. The day I found out about Nat Turner I was affected so strongly it was physical. I was so souped up on adrenaline I could barely contain myself. I tore through every book my mother had. […]
Read the rest of this entry »Black History Fact Of The Day: Railroad Crossing Flag Signal
Clifton Ingram invented the railroad crossing flag signal, and received a patent for his invention in 1925. Tweet
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