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📚Black Women in STEM: 12 Children’s Books for Women’s History Month

“Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” Katherine Johnson

The recent passing of genius NASA mathematician and scientist, Katherine Johnson, has renewed interest in the book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book portrayed the fascinating life of Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Christine Darden. In an interview about the book, author Margot Lee Shetterly stated, “I really hope that this goes a long way to helping all of us change our perception about what a scientist looks like, what a mathematician looks like, who’s capable of doing that work at the highest level. Hidden Figures, a New York Times bestseller and the Oscar-nominated movie were instrumental in the public’s growing interest in women in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) field. There are many Black women in STEM whose achievements are still hidden or have not been widely told. The books listed tell well-known and lesser-known stories of Black women scientists, physicians, inventors, etc.

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“Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.”

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Ultra-Short Versions of Classic Books For Lazy People

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I laughed way too hard at this...

I asked... and, my Sissy provided.

#loveinaskillet #blackberrycobbler #warmyummygoodness

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Walt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!”

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This is the poem my Sister shared with me for my 46th birthday... #omeolife #waltwhitman

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Poet and memoirist Maya Angelou died today at the age of 86.

In 1986, she spoke with Terry Gross about choosing to be mute as a child after she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and the moment she tried to speak —-

"Mrs. Flowers, a lady in my town, a black lady, had started me to reading, when I was about 8…I was already reading, but she started me reading in the black school and I read all the books in the black school library. She had some contact with the white school, and she would bring books to me, and I would just eat them up. When I was about 11 and a half, she said to me one day — I used to carry a tablet around on which I wrote answers — and she asked me, "Do you love poetry?" I wrote yes. It was a silly question from Mrs. Flowers. She knew. She told me, “You do not love poetry. You will never love it until you speak it, until it comes across your tongue, through your teeth, over your lips, you will never love poetry.” And I ran out of her house. I thought I’ll never go back there again. She was trying to take my friend.

She would catch me and say, “You do not love poetry, not until you speak it.” I’d run away and every time she’d see me she would just threaten to take my friend. Finally, I did take a book of poetry and I went under the house and tried to speak, and could.”

You can listen to the rest of the interview here.

Photo via PR Newswire

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My heart is heavy. Though I think it should not be so. For, "I know why the caged bird sings." And, now her song is Heaven-bound.

#maya angelou #poetry

Had a great time with @leo_gem420 today. Looking forward to May 30. #RelayforLife #cookies4acure #cancersucks #teamSavetheTaTas (at Boscovs)

#cookies4acure #teamsavethetatas #cancersucks #relayforlife

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"In Gulu, Uganda, Sister Rosemary has made it her mission to provide within an orphanage a home, a shelter for women and girls whose lives have been shattered by violence, rape and sexual exploitation. For girls who were forcibly enlisted as child soldiers, Sister Rosemary has the power to rekindle a bright light in eyes long gone blank. For women with unwanted children born out of conflict, she allows them to become loving mothers at last. The traumas she heals are unfathomable, but the reach of her love is boundless."

-Forest Whitaker on Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe, director of Saint Monica Girls’ Tailoring Centre in Uganda, and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People.

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My #WCW...

#make a difference #inspire change #phenomenal woman

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These girls are my sisters. That’s why I’m asking that my sisters should be protected. I want to tell parents here in developed countries in the UK and USA that just imagine if it happens to your daughter, if it happens to your son. How would you feel? Let’s consider this like our family and care about each other.

Malala Yousafzai speaks on the abduction of over 200 girls in Nigeria. (via halftheskymovement)

What if these girls were your sister, daughter, niece or neighbor? Would you just sit idly by?

#nigeria #abduction #malala yousafzai #education

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Today, hundreds of women marched through the streets of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, to press for the release of the 230 schoolgirls abducted by militants two weeks ago. Dressed in red, they braved heavy rain to deliver a letter to parliament criticizing the government for not doing enough to rescue the girls. March organizer Hadiza Bala Usman warned that the abductions would discourage parents from sending their daughters to school in an area where few girls are given an education. A local official said some of the girls may have been taken to neighboring states and forced to marry the militants.

”For how long are we going to wait for the government to help us? We can’t bear it anymore. We can’t,” cried Saruta, a woman from the community where the girls were abducted.

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