She’s an ELITE Coach now but don’t get it twisted, back in her playing days Coach @dawnstaley was giving out buckets left and right 👀
A Women’s Basketball LEGEND, but plays the role of coach even better👏🐔
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#OnThisDay in 1942, the Tuskegee Airmen became the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Learn more on our Searchable Museum: https://t.co/JvZ6uS4GdH #BlackHistoryMonth#APeoplesJourney
Today marks 58 years since the Orangeburg Massacre—one of the deadliest incidents of the Civil Rights Movement.
Students had been protesting the continued segregation of All Star Bowling Lane when state police opened fire.
Today the bowling alley is being brought back to life.
In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
Cruelty doesn’t always look like violence.
Mostly, it looks casual.
A joke at someone’s expense.
A nasty comment.
A thoughtless reply.
When cruelty becomes casual, it becomes invisible and that’s how it spreads. Every careless word costs, empathy, trust, humanity.
Small acts of cruelty add up. So do small acts of kindness.
Pause before posting.
Refuse to dehumanize.
Being kind in a cruel world isn’t weakness.
It’s resistance.
Happy 68th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison! She was the first black woman in space.
She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, working on experiments including bone cell research.
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief general practice, Dr. Jemison served in the Peace Corps from 1985-1987, when she was selected by NASA to join the astronaut corps. She resigned from NASA in 1993 to form a company researching the application of technology to daily life.
She has appeared on television several times, including as an actress in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Dr. Jemison is a dancer, and holds 9 honorary doctorates in science, engineering, letters, and the humanities.
HONORS & AWARDS:
🏆1988 Essence Science and Technology Award
🏆1991 McCall's 10 Outstanding Women for the 90s
🏆1991 Pumpkin Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New Century
🏆1992 Johnson Publications Black Achievement Trailblazers Award
🏆1993 National Women's Hall of Fame
🏆1993 Ebony magazine 50 Most Influential women
🏆1993 Kilby Science Award
🏆1993 Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth
🏆1993 People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful and sexy People in the World"
🏆1993 Turner Trumpet Award
🏆1997 Chicago History Museum "Making History Award" for Distinction in Science Medicine and Technology.
🏆2002 listed among the 100 Greatest African Americans according to Molefi Kete Asante.
🏆2003 Intrepid Award by the National Organization for girls
🏆2004 International Space Hall of Fame NASA Space Flight Medal
🏆2005 The National Audubon Society, Rachel Carson Award
Institutions:
🚀1992 Mae C. Jemison Science and Space Museum, Wilbur Wright College
🚀1992 Mae C. Jemison Academy, an alternative public school in Detroit, Michigan
🚀2001 Mae Jemison School, an elementary public school in Hazel Crest, Illinois
🚀2007 Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy, a public charter school in Baltimore, Maryland
Doctors honoris causa:
🚀1991 Doctor of Science, Lincoln College, Pennsylvania
🚀2000 Doctor of Humanities, Princeton University
🚀2005 Doctor of Science, Wilson College
🚀2006 Doctor of Science, Dartmouth College
🚀2007 Doctor of Engineering, Harvey Mudd College
🚀2007 Doctor of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
🚀2008 Doctor of Humanities, DePaul University
🚀2009 Doctor of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU.
Marian Croak is the Inventor of the tech powering Zoom, FaceTime & WhatsApp.
She Holds 200+ patents and was Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. 🌟
🎶 Take a look, it’s in a book 🎶
After nearly 20 years… Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course… new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈✨
#FollowTheRainbow
It's been more than 60 years since three USC students made history as the first Black students admitted to the university since Reconstruction.
Tune in tomorrow for the premiere of "A Monument for Change”
https://t.co/9bMpMkEqm2
Two civil rights protesters arrested after they sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina in 1960 finally have their arrest records cleared
https://t.co/v0hGGAypG1
We've got that "Friday Feeling" as we say hello to our newest Wolves! We can't wait to welcome them home for good in August! #NewberryCollege#NewberryBound
Congratulations to senior small forward Caleb Temoney, accepting a basketball scholarship to further his athletic and academic career at Newberry College. Good luck, CT!