Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black History Facts. Show all posts

Saturday, April 05, 2025

Friday, April 04, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating inventor, Henry Brown, creator of the first 'strongbox', a metal container for storing money, valuables and important papers that could be locked with a key...

Thursday, April 03, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Frederick McKinley Jones the inventor of mobile refrigeration technology used to transport food and blood in World War II...

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating James West, co-inventor of the technology used in 90% of microphones today...

Monday, March 31, 2025

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating civil rights attorney, Sadie T. Alexander, the first Black woman in the United States to earn a PhD in Economics...

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating 17-year-old high school athlete and musician, Sahli Negassi, who scored a perfect 1600 on the SATs this year, a rare achievement that places him among less than 1% of test-takers nationwide...

Friday, March 28, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who performed the first successful open heart surgery and the founder of Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first non segregated hospital in the United States...

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Dr. Alexa Canady the first Black female neurosurgeon in the United States...

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Mary McLeod Bethune educator, humanitarian, philanthropist, womanist, and civil rights activist...

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Dr. Barbara Ross, the first Black woman appointed dean of a medical school in the United States and sister of Motown legend Diana Ross...

Monday, March 24, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson who, as high school seniors at St. Mary's Academy in New Orleans, solved and showed proof of the Pythagorean Theorem ( a² + b² = c²)...

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating engineer Moses West who invented the Atmospheric Water Generator, that pulls water from the air...

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating the Fisk University Jubilee Singers who saved the school with their choir and inspired Queen Victoria the nickname Nashville 'Music City...'

Friday, March 21, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating Dr. Eliza Grier, the first Black woman licensed to practice medicine in Georgia...

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating investigative journalist, women's suffragist and anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating attorney Elmer W. Henderson, whose landmark civil rights lawsuit became the basis for The Supreme Court's decision to outlaw segregation on railroad dining cars...

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating the Deacons of Defense and Justice, an armed community action group created to combat the Klan and corrupt cops in Jonesboro, Louisiana two years before the Black Panther Party was founded...

Monday, March 17, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating surgeon Dr. Charles Drew who pioneered blood preservation techniques and established the first large-scale blood banks...

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Black History Fact


Celebrating engineer Lonnie Thomas inventor of the wildly popular Super Soaker water gun ...