MochAthena

Not fallin’ for the okie doke. Mensa member and polyglot. Also a Black Kennedy. wombats poop cubes. #BlackLivesMatter

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

@dijoni Typical. 1st time stern for me? 1/13/82. Air Florida crashed into 14th st bridge and the Potomac. I hear this guy on radio prank calling Air Florida reservations asking the price of a ticket to the bridge. So this doesn’t surprise me at all.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Alice Augusta Ball was a chemist who developed the first successful treatment for leprosy.

Her solution was the most effective treatment for more than a quarter-century.

She died young, at only 24, in 1916 but with a lasting legacy.

—Alice Augusta Ball, a pharmaceutical chemist, was born in Seattle, Washington in 1892 to Laura and James P. Ball Jr.

Alice Ball entered the University of Washington and graduated with two degrees in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1912 and pharmacy in 1914. In the fall of 1914, she entered the College of Hawaii (later the University of Hawaii) as a graduate student in chemistry. On June 1, 1915, she was the first African American and the first woman to graduate with a Master of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Hawaii. In the 1914-1915 academic year she also became the first woman to teach chemistry at the institution.

Ball’s major adviser assigned her a research project involving the effect of chaulmooga oil on patients with Hansen disease. Her research developed a successful treatment for those suffering from the disease. At the time of her research Ball became ill. She worked under extreme pressure to produce injectable chaulmooga oil and, according to some observers, became exhausted in the process. Ball returned to Seattle and died at the age of 24 on December 31, 1916. According to her obituary, she suffered injuries from inhaling chlorine gas during a class demonstration in Honolulu.

The chairman of the Chemistry Department at the University of Hawaii continued refining the research work of Ball, treating many patients successfully at Kalaupapa, a special hospital for Hansen disease patients. The “Ball method” continued to be the most effective method of treatment until the 1940s and as late as 1999 one medical journal indicated the “Ball Method” was still being used to treat Hansen disease patients in remote areas.

During her brief lifetime Ball never received the acknowledgement from the medical world for her groundbreaking work in the cure of Hansen disease. After her death the chairman of the University of Hawaii Chemistry Department received recognition. Over time, however, researchers began to learn of Ball’s crucial contribution. In 2000, the University of Hawaii acknowledged Alice A. Ball as one of its most distinguished graduates.

[TizzyEnt @TizzyEnt]

Gresham Oregon Police Department, this man is dangerous!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Meet David Johnson. He is a 48-year-old man from Nashville Tennessee.

On Monday he apparently didn’t like the fact that a man of Honduran descent was running a fruit stand in his neighborhood, so he approached the man and completely destroyed the fruit stand.

The victim, Diego Parada, told Nashville Noticias, “Well like any entrepreneur, I came with my business wanting to work, without hurting or bothering anyone. I stood here and then within the hour this man, who is present in his car, arrived and almost ran me and my friend over. He got out very angry, I have the videos. And like a crazy person began insulting me. He assaulted me both verbally as well as physically and began throwing everything."

Thanks to this video, Johnson has now been charged with vandalism.

Why are people like this? Why do they behave like this when other people are just trying to earn a living?

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

@LeahRemini Given all I’ve read about that “enterprise”, I’d imagine they’re terrified of repercussions. I would be.

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

@BusterCastro7 @TizzyEnt I laughed so loud I scared the cat! Kudos. Best all week.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.

The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.

He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.

—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

This “missionary “ racket needs to stop.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

US Missionary, Lucas Richards has been been arrested for the attempted murder of his pregnant Liberian girlfriend, Jessica Lloyd.

He went for missionary work and impregnated her. He has a wife in USA.

He attempted to slit her throat. He also injected her to cause a miscarriage.

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

I think I’m in love with a dove with a dove I’m in love🎶

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1970, rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix died at 27 years old.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix ,was a musician, singer, and songwriter. Despite a relatively brief mainstream career spanning four years, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin' circuit, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid-1965. He then joined Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after having been discovered by bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals.

Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the US. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 as the world's highest-paid performer before dying from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored over driven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in developing the previously undesirable technique of guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously.

In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, Billboard named him the Artist of the Year and Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Rolling Stone ranked their three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

I still can't believe this player wasn't ejected.

We see players kicked out for seemingly normal football plays every week, and this was a blatant cheap shot.

Even worse, Travis Hunter will now miss games against Oregon & USC.

Big miss by the refs IMO.

[𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼 @NikkiBarnes]

YO!!! What the hell is going on in Shreveport?!?!? And why is City Councilman Gary Brooks saying “n***a?” And why is not on Twitter so I can “@“ him? 😒😒😒

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

@notcapnamerica This woman is very strong. She is admirable. I send her a hug and good vibes. Peace be with her.

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

This. Right. Here. Good grief!

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

Hilarious

[Jeannette Reyes @msnewslady]

Even my mom is impressed with our morning routine 😌

@Robert7News

[StanceGrounded @_SJPeace_]

Jaahnavi Kandula, 23 y/o foreign exchange grad student murdered by a Seattle P.O. in January of this year.

She was pedestrian walking home until a reckless cop struck her going 74 mph on a 25 mph zone.

His supervisor laughs her life is of “limited value”

YOU CANT REFORM THIS

[Ryan Shead @RyanShead]

You can’t fake this kind of passion and anger. 🇺🇸

This is why so many Americans want to see Jon Stewart run for public office. We need smart people who sincerely care filling seats in Congress.

…not representatives who can’t be bothered to sit in them when September 11th first responders came asking for better medical care.

The average FDNY and NYPD response time on 9/11 was 5 seconds.

…Congresses response time was 18 years.

That tells us all we need to know about those men and women that day and how terrible our government treated them.

#911NeverForget #911Anniversary #NeverForget #NeverForget911 #September11th

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

Tell me again about that “protect and serve” büskjitt…

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

This Seattle cop was going 40mph over the speed limit when he hit and killed a woman crossing the street.

Then he called in and dismissed his killing by saying she was just a regular person.

He says, "Just write a check."

[MochAthena @MochAthena]

Caedite eos. Novit enim dominus qui sunt eius

[#FirstThem NEWS🇺🇸 @FirstThemNEWS]

It’s ((THEM)) …. AGAIN❕
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