James' World 2

MAY 10, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER Sen. Alexander A. Moorhead, Jr. served three terms, from 1971 to 1976, in the 9th through 11th sessions of the Legislature of the United States Virgin Islands, (U.S.V.I.). He was a member of the Independent Citizens Movement, a break-away party established in 1967 by community members who sought to insert […]

ALEXANDER A. MOORHEAD, JR. (1945-2023)

FEBRUARY 19, 2015, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: JOYCEANN GRAY Hamilton Hatter, educator and inventor, was the first principal of Bluefield Colored Institute in Bluefield, West Virginia. Hatter was born enslaved on April 24, 1856, in Jefferson County, Virginia, which became part of West Virginia in 1863. His parents Frank and Rebecca Hatter, his maternal grandparents, William and Lettie McCord, and his paternal grandparents, James Hatter and […]

HAMILTON HATTER (1856-1942)

JANUARY 17, 2007, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: CHRIS OTT Dr. George Franklin Grant was the first African American professor at Harvard. He was born in Oswego, New York to former slaves. When he was fifteen years old a local dentist, Dr. Albert Smith, hired him as an errand boy. He soon became a lab assistant, and Dr. Smith encouraged him to pursue […]

GEORGE FRANKLIN GRANT (1847-1910)

DECEMBER 31, 2017, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: SAMUEL MOMODU Alfred L. Cralle was an African American businessman and inventor best known for inventing the ice cream scoop in 1897. Cralle was born on September 4, 1866, in Kenbridge, Lunenburg County, Virginia, just after the end of the American Civil War. He attended local schools and worked for his father in the carpentry trade as […]

ALFRED L. CRALLE (1866–1920)

FEBRUARY 8, 2019, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: AUGUST PASSANNANTE John Lee Love was an African American inventor, most known for his invention of the hand-cranked pencil sharpener, the “Love Sharpener,” and an improved plasterer’s hawk. Little is known about the early life of Love. His date and place of birth are unknown, but it is conjectured that he was born […]

JOHN LEE LOVE (?-1931)

Sound of Freedom is an action film directed and co-written by Alejandro Monteverde. The film is produced by Eduardo Verástegui. The plot centers around Tim Ballard, a former government agent who embarks on a mission to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia, and is based on a true story. Before I discovered Sound of […]

SOUND OF FREEDOM (2023) – My rating 9/10

JULY 24, 2022, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: LESLIE GARCIA Gilda Barabino, a biomedical engineer and world-renowned sickle cell researcher, is the first African American and woman president of Olin College of Engineering. She was born on May 28, 1956, in Anchorage, Alaska to Margaret Angus Barnes Barnum and Norman Edward Barnum III. At a very young age, she […]

GILDA BARABINO (1956- )

Born in Chicago, Illinois in the early 1800s Daniel McCree is best known for patenting of the portable fire escape ladder. Very little is known about his childhood or personal life or when and where he died. Daniel McCree Patent Drawing (Public Domain) On May 2, 1890, McCree filed Patent No. 440,322 indicating on line […]

DANIEL MCCREE? (1800?- ?)

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). Introduction 1 John serves as source of encouragement for those who remained faithful to the Gospel after the schism brought about by false doctrines that […]

God Told You What?

OCTOBER 31, 2017, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ELEANOR MAHONEY During the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Philip Bell Downing successfully filed at least five patents with the United States Patent Office. Among his most significant inventions were a street letter box (U.S. Patent numbers 462,092 and 462,093) and a mechanical device for operating street railway switches (U.S. Patent […]

PHILIP B. DOWNING (1857-1934)