James' World 2

JANUARY 26, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER Robert Lee Satcher Jr., a specialist in child and adult bone cancer, a chemical engineer, and astronaut was born on September 22, 1965, in Hampton, Virginia, to Robert Lee Satcher, from Coffee County, Alabama, and the president of Saint Paul’s College in Lawrenceville, Virginia and Marian Hanna Satcher from […]

ROBERT LEE SATCHER JR. (1965 -)

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JANUARY 27, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: OTIS ALEXANDER Evan Dale Abel, a pioneering endocrinologist, and advocate for more Black men being accepted into medical school, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on February 4, 1963.  His father and mother were educators and parents of five children; three of whom today are doctors, and two are engineers. Abel would […]

Dr. EVAN DALE ABEL (1963 -)

FEBRUARY 10, 2023, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: TRUDY LEE WRIGHT Peter Crosby was born in 1844 and lived twenty years in Clark County, Mississippi. He moved to Vicksburg in 1864 and enlisted at the age of 20 where he became a member of the US Colored Troops in Company C, 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery. Cosby was a […]

Do You Know of PETER CROSBY (1844-1884)

SARAH E. GOODE (C.1855? – 1905) POSTED ON NOVEMBER 5, 2010 BY CONTRIBUTED BY: AMY ESSINGTON Sarah Elisabeth Goode was one of the first African American women to obtain a patent from the United States government in 1885. She shares the distinction with Judy Reed, who invented a dough-kneading machine that was patented in 1880, and Miriam Benjamin, who […]

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How do you waste the most time every day? Playing games on my devices. It’s a colossal waste of time, plus it’s an addiction. The more you play, the more time they give you for free. I think I might need GA (games anonymous). I totally stop all games for 46 days during Lent. I […]

Game Addiction

ALICE H. PARKER (1895-?) POSTED ON APRIL 1, 2018, BY CONTRIBUTED BY: ERIKA WEBER Alice H. Parker was an African American inventor famous for her patented system of central heating using natural gas. In the 1920s using natural gas to power a heating furnace was a revolutionary idea that conserved energy and paved the way for the central heating […]

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On June 18th 1865 Union Brigadier General Gordon Granger and approximately 2,000 federal troops landed on the beach at Galveston, Texas, to take control of the last unoccupied Confederate state. Although many enslaved people had already learned that they were freed, on June 19th Granger made the news of freedom official. He stepped onto the balcony of Ashton Villa, the […]

The Contents of General Order No. 3

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.🫠🫠

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Renowned physicist and university president Shirley Ann Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C., to George Hiter Jackson and Beatrice Cosby Jackson. When Jackson was a child, her mother would read her the biography of Benjamin Banneker, an African American scientist and mathematician who helped build Washington, D.C., and her father encouraged […]

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