Diamond

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem. ✨SHINING.

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May 11th.

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Now when I started this journey I definitely thought I would be further than this by this time of year…but we’re pushing through regardless 🫠😏

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Numbers, done.

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Genesis, done.

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Leviticus, done.

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Literally just opened the app to say…

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Awh! I did my fifth grade BHM report on her.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Happy 66th 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.

[Diamond @simplieDiamond]

Not it taking two months again…😩

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Today was the epitome of “if it’s not one thing, it’s another”…🙃😖😢😪

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There were clearly a few+ nightly readings skipped, but we made it through! Even if I takes about as long as the people in the wilderness to get out…😜😜😜

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It took my exactly two months to finish one book in the Bible. 🤦🏾‍♀️🫣 Chile…

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This. 🥰🥰🥰

[Jasmyn @JasmynBeKnowing]

I’m obsessed with all of my friends individually. I could easily give a 30-45 minute presentation on everyone of them and why they are perfect to me
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Me being able to get to midtown in no traffic from my house and the time it takes me to get from one side of 138 to the other in the during lunch time is equivalent is surreal….where are all these ppl coming from?! 😳😳😳

[BreDott 💎 @BreEssuman]

“Can you start the boxes for me?” 🥺 If you knew how to begin the boxes, you were a true 🐐

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Now let me just start getting ready for July 2024 NOW 😂🤭

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…but turning their days into “yes days”with the idea of just letting both of them decide what they wanted to do was a winner for sure! Hearing them both genuinely say they enjoyed their days was just what I needed 🥰🥰🥰

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Before the binge starts can’t I just say that I wasn’t mentally prepared for “Month of Cooke” on top of life just lifing and was worried the kids would be disappointed…

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Just when I was about to find a new show to watch..I see season three of #SweetMagnolias is on Netflix 🤩🍿

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@Spud_1908_ Oop! 🤭🤭🤭 And DON’T!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

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Biggest goal as a parent: not having my kids feel exactly how I do right now. 🙏🏾

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Kids are horrible 😆😂 The guy that delivered our fridge was missing a tooth and Jade goes “I want to tell him he’s missing a tooth like me” 🙃🙃🫠🫠

[Serena Williams @serenawilliams]

Nice lady: I love your hair
Me: Awww Thanks!
Olympia : It’s a WIG!!!