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Loving Vincent (2017) dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman
In 1847, Elizabeth Blackwell wanted to go to medical school. Never mind that at the time women simply did not get medical degrees. The 26-year-old hadn’t planned to grow up to become a physician—rather, her interest in medicine was sparked by a personal encounter. A dying female friend remarked to Blackwell that her trials would have been made easier had there been a female doctor to care for her. The comment struck a chord.
Drawn by a challenge, she decided to pursue a medical degree and, after studying for a year under several physician friends, made her attempt.
She applied to 12 schools along the Northeast, in addition to every medical program available in New York and Philadelphia. In the end, only Dean Charles Lee of Geneva Medical College in western New York gave her application any real consideration—sort of. PBS’s Howard Markel explains:
Dean Lee and his all male faculty were more than hesitant to make such a bold move as accepting a woman student. Consequently, Dr. Lee decided to put the matter up to a vote among the 150 men who made up the medical school’s student body. If one student voted “No,” Lee explained, Miss Blackwell would be barred from admission.
Apparently, the students thought the request was little more than a silly joke and voted unanimously to let her in; they were surprised, to say the least, when she arrived at the school ready to learn how to heal.
And learn she did. Undeterred by her classmates’ and professors’ sometimes open animosity, Blackwell received her medical degree on January 23, 1849. She went on to study obstetrics and pediatrics in Europe before returning to the United States to start her own practice in New York City.
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Black Americans are Soul People.
The amount of times I just watched this compilation made by BlackPowerBA. I love us. We are vibrant people with a culture unlike any other.
And that double dutch transition into Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers is the chef’s kiss.
africanarchives Lloyd Gaines had just become a civil rights pioneer. Denied admission to the University of Missouri’s Law School in 1935 because he was African American, Gaines sued, without much hope of winning in Jim Crow America. Yet after the U.S. Supreme Court finally heard his case in 1938, the justices ruled that unless Missouri created a black law school overnight, it would have to admit Gaines to the all-white law school. This was astonishing news for a black boy born dirt-poor in rural Mississippi who had watched racism follow his family’s migration north to St. Louis.
In the spring of 1939 it appeared, remarkably, that Gaines would enter the Missouri Law School later that year as the first African American ever enrolled there. On the cold, rainy evening of March 19, Gaines told a housemate he was going to buy stamps. He went out . . . and was never seen again.
Racism has robbed us of so many brilliant minds.
No doubt this man was lynched for his ambitions
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David Ruggles was born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1810. His parents, David Sr. and Nancy Ruggles, were free African Americans. His father was born in Norwich in 1775 and worked as a journeyman blacksmith. His mother was born in 1785 in either Lyme or Norwich and worked as a caterer. Ruggles was the first of eight children.
In 1826, at the age of sixteen, Ruggles moved to New York City, where he worked as a mariner before opening a grocery store. Nearby, other African-Americans ran grocery businesses in Golden Hill (John Street east of William Street), such as Mary Simpson (1752-March 18, 1836). After 1829, abolitionist Sojourner Truth (born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) also lived in lower Manhattan. At first, he sold liquor, then embraced temperance. He became involved in anti-slavery and the free produce movement. He was a sales agent for and contributor to The Liberator and The Emancipator, abolitionist newspapers.
After closing the grocery, Ruggles opened the first African American-owned bookstore in the United States. The bookstore was located on Lispenard Street near St. John's park in what is today the Tribeca neighborhood. Ruggles' bookstore specialized in abolitionist and feminist literature, including works by African-American abolitionist Maria Stewart. He edited a New York journal called The Mirror of Liberty, and also published a pamphlet called The Extinguisher. He also published "The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment" in 1835, an appeal to northern women to confront husbands who kept enslaved African women as mistresses.
Ruggles was secretary of the New York Committee of Vigilance, a radical biracial organization to aid fugitive slaves, oppose slavery, and inform enslaved workers in New York about their rights in the state. New York had abolished slavery and stated that slaves voluntarily brought to the state by a master would automatically gain freedom after nine months of residence. On occasion, Ruggles went to private homes after learning that enslaved Africans were hidden there, to tell workers that they were free. In October 1838, Ruggles assisted Frederick Douglass on his journey to freedom, and reunited Douglass with his fiancé Anna Murray. Rev. James Pennington, a self-emancipated slave, married Murray and Douglass in Ruggles' home shortly thereafter. Douglass' autobiography 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass' explains "I had been in New York but a few days, when Mr. Ruggles sought me out, and very kindly took me to his boarding-house at the corner of Church and Lespenard Streets. Mr. Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable Darg case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies."
Ruggles was especially active against kidnapping bounty hunters (also known as "blackbirds"), who made a living by capturing free African people in the North and illegally selling them into slavery. With demand high for slaves in the Deep South, another threat was posed by men who kidnapped free blacks and sold them into slavery, as was done to Solomon Northup of Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1841. With the Vigilance Committee, Ruggles fought for fugitive slaves to have the right to jury trials and helped arrange legal assistance for them.
His activism earned him many enemies. Ruggles was physically assaulted and his bookshop was destroyed through arson. He quickly reopened his library and bookshop. There were two known attempts to kidnap him and sell him into slavery in the South. His enemies included fellow abolitionists who disagreed with his tactics. He was criticized for his role in the well-publicized Darg case of 1838, involving a Virginia slaveholder named John P. Darg and his slave, Thomas Hughes.
Ruggles suffered from ill health, which intensified following the Darg case. In 1841, his father died, and Ruggles was ailing and almost blind. In 1842, Lydia Maria Child, a fellow abolitionist and friend, arranged for him to join a radical Utopian commune called the Northampton Association of Education and Industry, in the present-day village of Florence, Massachusetts.
Applying home treatment upon hydropathic principles, he regained his health to some degree, but not his eyesight. He began practicing hydrotherapy, and by 1845, had established a "water cure" hospital in Florence. This was one of the earliest in the United States. Joel Shew and Russell Thacher Trall (R.T. Trall) had preceded him in using this type of therapy. Ruggles died in Florence in 1849, at the age of thirty-nine, due to a bowel infection
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Let’s Celebrate a Maths Wizkid, Uwakmfon Unwana
You might be wondering the numerous Medals just on one neck. Master Uwakmfon Unwana has proved himself within the space of 2 ½yrs (JSS2-SSS1) to be an Intercontinental
Mathematics Champion as he is:
Champion in America Maths Competition
Champion in South African Maths Competition
Champion in Canadian Maths Competition
Champion in Pan African Maths Competition
Champion in Ghana Maths Competition,MIT
Champion in Indonesia Maths Competition
Champion in Stanford Maths Competition
Champion in istem Maths, Germany
Champion in IYMC, Intercontinental and many more that cannot be mentioned here as he had clinched 2O medals in various Maths Competition globally.
Currently on his way to Ghana for a Research program and has been admitted into the World Science Scholars by Prof Brainne Greene a renowed Theoretical Physicists in Super String Theory.
Congratulations Uwakmfon Unwana and keep on soaring higher.
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Janet Collins broke color barriers in the 1950s when she became the first African American prima ballerina and one of the very few prominent black women in American classical ballet.
Collins was born in New Orleans, LA, on this date March 7, 1917, and today we are honored to share a glimpse into the life of a crucial figure in ballet history.
Ms. Collins made her debut as the leading dancer in the Met’s production of “Aïda.” She went on to become the first African American prima ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera. Ms. Collins was also a member of SAB’s guest faculty, teaching modern dance classes at the School from 1949-1950 and then again from 1967-1969.
“Everything was clear. But the speed with which Janet Collins moved was unbelievable,” said Arthur Mitchell an American dancer, choreographer, and director who was the first African American to become a principal dancer with a major ballet troupe, New York City Ballet. He later cofounded the Dance Theatre of Harlem.
“There was a wonderful feeling of flight all the time, but not flight to get away, flight to move. And she really reveled in the movement, she reveled in the movement. And as Balanchine said, ‘a dance is movement through time and space.’ She was the embodiment of that when she danced.”
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Fred McIntyre known as Devil’s Man holds in his hands a portrait of the Kaiser framed with bullets that he took from a German Soldier
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Corporal Fred McIntyre served in World War I with the USA Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, a lavishly decorated regiment that was better known by its nickname: the Harlem Hellfighters. The Hellfighters, part of the New York National Guard, stood out for several reasons: uncommon courage, the exceptional ragtime-influenced brass band, and their Afroness. Only ten percent of the American soldiers were African.
In July 1918 they were fighting alongside the French along the Marne River. In fact, militarily they became French, as the 369th were integrated into the French Army. They wore hybrid uniforms (including the French Adrian helmet), carried Gallic rifles, and received French troop wine rations.
The Harlem Hellfighters accumulated more casualties on the Western Front than any other American regiment, but received numerous medals for their bravery. One member of the regiment, Henry Porter, nicknamed Black Death, was the first American to receive the prestigious Croix de Guerre, which was also awarded collectively to the entire 369th Regiment.
Who is the greatest historical figure never to have been depicted in film or on stage?
The highest ranking African-American to ever receive the Medal of Honor.On Nov. 2, 1968, The North Vietnamese Army attacked Lt. Col. Charles Calvin Rogers’ base camp with heavy mortars, rocket propelled grenade fire.Battle hardened NVA soldiers breached the defensive barriers. As the NVA charged, Lt. Col. Rogers grabbed his helmet & rifle and raced up to the frontline positions. He organized his battalion to return fire despite being severely injured.He led a mid-night assault to regain the units positions. The NVA retreated. A 2nd wave of attacks began..
Rogers led a counter-attack to defended the base and his men. A 3rd assault began. Despite heavy bleeding, Rogers re-stocked his men for final battle.A mortar explosion left him unable to stand, but, he kept going. The line held.This moment of heroism doesn’t reflect the racism he faced as he rose thru the ranks.But, it does depict one brave & selfless soldier. The highest ranking African American to ever receive the Medal of Honor.Nary a film, a play or a book was undertaken to honor our American hero.