Dr. Alondra Oubre is a medical anthropologist and the author of Instinct and Revelation, as well as published articles such as ” The Adaptionist Yardstick” and “Black English Vernacular and Educability”. Her writings cover scientific topics such as plant drug research; pharmacology; and human biodiversity, including the nature-nurture debate over ethnic differences.
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REPOST: A Bronx Mix: Mixtapes Then and Now (from FreeMixRadio) [Audio]
Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
As part of Black History Month and a larger and on-going study of the history, impact on hip-hop and continued use and function of mixtapes FreeMixRadio shares this mini-documix on the subject.
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Dr. Rick Kittles: Biologist, Specializes in Human Genetics, AfricanAncestry.com
Posted on 05. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Rick Antonius Kittles is an African-American biologist specializing in human genetics. He is the Scientific Director of AfricanAncestry.com, and achieved renown in the 1990s for his pioneering work in tracing the ancestry of African Americans via DNA testing.
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Ntozake Shange: Playwright- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay; born October 18, 1948) is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism.
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Sara Dunlap Jackson: One of the 1st Black Archivists at the National Archives
Posted on 03. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
While we recognize and remember Carter G. Woodson as the “Father of Afro-American History,” we often do not recognize giants who facilitated the researching of this history: Sara Dunlap Jackson was a giant among us.
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[HBCU Presidents] Horace Mann Bond: 1st Black President of Fort Valley State College & Lincoln University
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
One of the most respected and influential black educators and intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Horace Mann Bond was at the forefront of black education and civil rights throughout his career – as teacher and key administrator at Fisk University, Dillard University, Fort Valley State College (president, 1939 – 1945), Lincoln University (president, 1945 – 1957), and Atlanta University, where he was dean of the School of Education, 1957 – 1966. Much of Bond’s research emphasized the social, economic, and geographic factors influencing academic achievement. pioneered many projects, including his critiques of intelligence and aptitude testing, his research on black doctorates, and his field work for the Julius Rosenwald Fund.
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Imagine a world in which people like you have no written history, or that which has been written is incomplete or distorted. Before Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950) began his work, there was very little information, and much of that stereotypical misinformation, about the lives and history of Americans of African descent.
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Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.: Founding Dean and 1st President of Morehouse School of Medicine
Posted on 29. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is the founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was President of MSM for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he left the presidency, but continues to serve on the MSM Board of Trustees, to teach, and to assist in national fund-raising activities on behalf of the school.
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Barbara Jordan: 1st Black Woman from a Southern State to Serve in the House of Representatives
Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.
In 1972, Barbara Jordan was elected to serve in the Ninety-third Congress, becoming the first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas and the first African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the South. In 1976, Jordan was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention at which she nominated President Jimmy Carter. She became the first African American to give a keynote speech at a major party’s political convention.
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