Alyssa

Marketing gal, lover of food, wine, Pops and shoes

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

DYK that famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass also championed womens’ rights and was involved with the suffragists, attending the famous first Womens Rights Convention in Seneca Falls? (It’s his bday today, btw) #BlackHistoryMonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

That halftime show was everything - the shoutouts to the culture and the area down to the map they were standing on + blazing performances + diversity in shades & body types in dancers. 👏🏽 👏🏽 Also can Queen Mary get her own halftime gig already? Kthx. #PepsiHalftime #SuperBowl

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

I don’t understand the people proudly tweeting they’re only here for this and only here for that. I’m here for it all: the game, the ads, the halftime show, the tearjerking moments.

I WANT IT ALL.

Having it all is what makes the Super Bowl…well, super. 😬 #SuperBowl

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

Doug Williams was 1st Black QB to play in a #SuperBowl AND win one AND be the MVP. Also 1st Black QB taken in first round of @nfl draft. Despite his record setting performance in SBXXII leading underdogs to 42-10 win over Elway’s Broncos, he’s still not in HOF. #BlackHistoryMonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

DYK first African American to win gold medal at #Olympics was also a vet?

Dr. John Baxter Taylor graduated from @penn School of Veterinary Medicine before 1908 London Olympics, won as part of men’s medley relay team. Died of typhoid pneumonia few months later #blackhistorymonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

Lt. Col. Shawna Rochelle Kimbrell became first African-American female combat pilot, flying F-16s during combat missions in Iraq War. (In case you didn’t know, women were not allowed to be military combat pilots until 1993!) #BlackHistoryMonth #blackfirsts #blackwomenrock

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

Andrea Jenkins was the first openly transgender Black woman elected to public order in the US in 2017, now first transgender official to lead a city council. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackwomenrock #LGBTQ

[The Minnesota Star Tribune @StarTribune]

Minneapolis City Council members unanimously selected Andrea Jenkins as their president, the first openly transgender, Black woman to take the post. https://t.co/aboQhAkMpM

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

@GailSimone Elektra

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

The African Burial Ground was one of the sites I learned about from the NPS film “Twenty & Odd” that I talked about yesterday. 🥲

I also learn something when putting together these daily facts for #BlackHistoryMonth 👍🏽

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

DYK the nation’s oldest & largest African burial ground was rediscovered in 1993 & is a historic monument in the @NatlParkService ? Dating from 1630s-1795, it highlights the role slavery played in building NYC.

📸 courtesy NPS

https://t.co/ln7u4Mc2lW

#BlackHistoryMonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

(2/2) Africans to arrive in the US in 1619. Filmmakers (Black NPS staff and interns) wanted to “reclaim its power and celebrate all that Black and African-American communities bring to our collective heritage.”

I hope this inspires you to visit these sites!

#BlackHistoryMonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

(1/2) The @NatlParkService has a lovely film Twenty & Odd that captures Black experience while highlighting historically relevant locations that I’ll touch on later in month. The title comes from the description of first enslaved +

https://t.co/TZWkYYOmZ9

#BlackHistoryMonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

Dr May Edward Chinn - first Black woman to graduate from University & Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1926. Advocate for poor, early cancer screening.
https://t.co/563TVXqhpN

#blackfirsts #blackwomeninSTEM #womeninSTEM #blackhistorymonth

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#BlackHistoryMonth Augustus Nathaniel Lushington was first African-American to earn a Doctor of Veterinary Degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1897. Today his portrait hangs in the university’s veterinary school.

https://t.co/S65N7Qv58G

#blackfirsts #blackSTEM

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

I’ve been doing this for 6 years but am late to start! Ay! Today’s #BlackHistoryMonth tidbit: @oberlincollege began admitting Black students as early as 1835, including 1st Black woman to earn college degree from American college, Mary Jane Patterson. #blackfirsts

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#blackhistorymonth Carl Brashear - first African-American @usnavy diver. During an operation, he was badly injured, leg amputated below the knee but went on to become first African-American Master Diver in 1970, also first amputee diver to be recertified as a Navy diver. #boss

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#BlackHistoryMonth GIFS like the one come to you thanks to Lisa Gelobter. This computer scientist invented animation software program later used to create the GIF. She also worked on Shockwave Flash and development of streaming video in her role at Hulu. #blackSTEM #womeninSTEM

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#blackhistorymonth Daniel “80 John” Webster Wallace was the son of slaves, who went on to become a rancher with an estate worth $1 million, owning over 8,800 acres in TX. He was even breaking horses at 74 years old! #oldwest

📸 courtesy of Texas State Historical Association

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#BlackHistoryMonth Simone Bell was the first openly out LGBT African-American woman to win a seat in a state legislature in the U.S. in 2009. Bell was re-elected and served until 2015. #lgbt #lgbtq #blacklgbt #blackwomenrock

[Alyssa @cityadcat]

#blackhistorymonth Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church is oldest church property in US to be continuously owned by African-Americans, as well as oldest African Methodist Episcopal, or A.M.E., Church. Founded in 1787 by free Black clergymen in Philadelphia leaving segregated church behind