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Dr. Alexa Canady was the first black woman to become a neurosurgeon in 1981. She also co-invented a device to treat fluid buildup in the brain.

She turns 74 today, Happy Birthday! via @africanarchives

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Marian Groak : Black History 365. ♥️ 🖤 💚

Marian Croak holds over 200 patents and most of her inventions are used all around the world. In 1982, she joined AT&T Bell Laboratories and worked there for over three decades. In 1994, she established the fundamentals for what is now called "Voice over Internet Protocol" or VoIP. Her inventions made it possible to convert your voice into a digital signal, allowing you to make a call directly from a computer or another digital device.

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Studio albums produced arranged composed & mostly written by Prince 1981-1987…while producing his own hit albums at the same time. The most prolific artist of the 1980s.

The Time * 1981

Vanity 6 * 1982

The Time * What Time Is It? 1982

Apollonia 6 * 1984

The Time * Ice Cream Castles 1984

Shelia E. * In The Glamorous Life 1984

Shelia E. * Romance 1600 1985

The Family * 1985

Madhouse * 8 1987

Jill Jones * 1987

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✨ Grace Wisher was 13 years old when she sewed the Star-Spangled Banner — the flag that inspired our national anthem.

She was an indentured servant in Mary Pickersgill’s home, working alongside an enslaved Black woman whose name history never bothered to record. Together, they stitched their place into the foundation of this country.

Yet when the story got told, only one name made it to the history books. Only one woman got remembered. Only one got the credit.

Grace Wisher didn’t just sew fabric. She stitched herself into America’s story. And it’s time we say her name.

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Me in grade school: people don’t like Malcom x bc he was more aggressive in taking down racism . I guess. (He barely gets a passing mention in the history books I read In school)

Me as an adult who actually read his writing: ok so they just don’t like him bc he was correct. Placing the blame where it belonged and they don’t like that he didn’t politely ask for people to stop being racist. They hate that he fought for his rights.

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In my history class in my rural conservative and mostly christian high school, my teacher taught our class that Malcom X was an extremist terrorist who was trying to start a "white genocide" 😭😭😭 im glad I actually go to a good university now where I am not lied to about based historical figures