The Preservation Resource Center & City of New Orleans are launching the Historic Home Repair Grant to help low-to-moderate-income homeowners with exterior repairs. Open to Orleans Parish residents with homes 50+ years old. Learn more at https://t.co/xl2oK1YxxV
Found a kitten. Available for free adoption. Needs an indoor home. Tweet back or DM me if interested. I’ll pay for initial vet checkup and shots. Super sweet kitten. Very friendly
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Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just 12 years old.
She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person.
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@BruceB010@CohenSite He’s particularly bad. I worked on one of his properties and we had someone fall through a rotted balcony because he refused to fix it and that was the LEAST disturbing situation.
On this day in 1898, Lyda A. Newman, a black hairdresser, patented a hair brush with synthetic bristles.
It was specifically made for Black hair because the previous animal hair brushes were too soft.
It also permitted easy cleaning because it had detachable units.
—Lyda D. Newman born in 1865 (no exact date known) was a patented inventor and involved activist for women's suffrage. She is known for the invention of the first synthetic hairbrush. Lyda spent the majority of her life living and working in New York City.
Newman's primary occupation was hair care as she listed “hair specialist” or “hairdresser” in various New York City Directories and US Government Federal and New York City censuses.
In the late 1800s, Newman invented a hairbrush that could be taken apart easily for cleaning because it contained a compartment at the bottom that could be removed from the back and be cleaned. The U.S. Patent 614,335 was filed on July 11, 1898 and granted on November 15, 1898.
Even more important than creating her patented invention, Newman was an active community member and organizer for women's suffrage in the early 20th century. The suffrage movement was a push for women's right to vote in elections. As a suffragist, she spent her time canvasing neighborhoods in New York City, hosted street meetings to educate passing people and to support the Woman Suffrage Party, Newman started the Negro Suffrage Headquarters in Manhattan.
On August 29, 1915, the New York Times noted under "Suffrage Centre for Negroes", "The Woman Suffrage Party is to open a suffrage headquarters for colored people at 207 West Sixty-third Street on Wednesday. This will be in charge of Miss Lyda Newman, who is doing excellent work for suffrage among her own people. The headquarters will be gayly decorated with suffrage posters, flags and streamers.”
Unfortunately, just as in her birth there is no record of what year in which she died, however what is undeniable is that she used her money and resources to advance the cause for all women's rights.
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The US has 15 vaccines for kids <18:
MMR
DTaP
Pneumococcal
Rotavirus
Varicella
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A
Polio
Haemophilus influenzae B
Meningococcal
Human Papillomavirus
Influenza
COVID-19
RSV
NOT 72.
Not 72 DOSES from birth to age 18 (it’s ~35)
Stop letting people lie.