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Morgan Price made HBCU history again! 🙌🏿 The Fisk University star is now the 1st back-to-back USA Gymnastics All-Around Champion from an HBCU, repping Black excellence wi/ a record-breaking season, a perfect 10, and a legacy that’s only getting started. https://t.co/vDBZLVlUpQ
🚨BULLIS BREAK THE HIGH SCHOOL INDOOR 4X400m NATIONAL RECORD BY OVER TWO SECONDS in 3:09.44!!!
🔥Quincy Wilson 45.94 split
✅First indoor 4x400m in HS history sub-3:10
1️���.01s off Bullis' outdoor 4x400m best
“When you see yourself in the story, you have a powerful sense of who you are. So I because of a Black educator named Ray Dial, who in high school introduced me to “Before The Mayflower” I became the child who would go on to create The 1619 Project” ~Nikole Hanna Jones
Morgan Price just made history—the first HBCU gymnast to score a perfect 10! ✨ She chose to build at Fisk University instead of the U of A, and now she’s shattering ceilings for HBCU athletics. This is Black excellence in motion! 👏🏿🏅
#BlackHistoryMonth Day 6 Book 6: Justene Hill Edwards’s “Savings and Trust,” the latest addition to the bookshelf of texts grappling with African attempts to build and leverage financial capital in the US Reconstruction era and the anti-Black work of private and public predators.
In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."
The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.
So they refused to announce a winner. 1/2
Since 1998, @sankofadc has been part of the culture and tapestry of the Washington DC area and its open arm support of Howard University is undeniable.
Richard Greener (b. 1844) scholar, educator, principal, activist, attorney, editor, diplomat, 1st Black graduate of Harvard in 1870. He was the 1st Black faculty member at a southern white college (University of South Carolina), dean of Howard’s Law School, & US consul in Russia
The Greeks and Romans once sat at the feet of the Egyptians. Admiration turned into jealousy which leads to contempt. How soon do we forget ?
The Greeks visited Egypt (kemet) as students to learn and study things we Africans knew before they later came back to invade and destroy the great libraries and scatter us into different places before the Arabs invaded again.
Plato studied in Egypt for 13 years
Pythagoras studied philosophy, geometry and medicine in Egypt for 22 years.
Thales, the first Greek philosopher to study in Egypt for 7 years.
Hypocrates, who is called father of medicine, recognized the Egyptian multi genius, Imhotep as the father of medicine.
The "Pythagorean Theorem" used to build pyramids in Egypt 1000 years before Pythagorean was born.
Plato said Egyptian education makes students more alert and humane.
Plato told his students to go to Egypt if they wanted to study the minds of great philosophers.
Heredotus, the Greek historian described ancient Egypt as the cradle of civilization.
Our ancestors opened the doors of our Nation to foreign peoples, these guests were welcomed with respect and honor according to our traditions but they used our kindness to destroy our Nation. #Africa
From the classroom to the crown! 👑 Our hearts are bursting with pride for Skye Faucher, a brilliant 2021 Fisk alumna, who has just been crowned Miss Universe Saint Lucia 2024.