Short stories of Black History Amondre Johnson
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Short stories of black history that your history teacher won’t tell you. Explore fun and interesting facts about black history with guest that have actually lived through some of it.
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Kathrine Johnson Revealed Figure
Kathrine Johnson is a well known name from the movie Hidden Figures, today we will reveal facts about her life with engineering and math teacher Emilee. Listen and learn about the great achievements of Mrs. Johnson in her tenure at NASA and learn how a great teacher uses Kathrines life and work to inspire herself and the students that she teaches to be involved in STEM.
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Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner and Sanitary Napkins
Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner has the most patents of any black woman in history. Listen to find out how her invention helped shape women across the world!!!
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Dr. Valerie Johnson and the Illusion transmitter
Dr. Valerie Johnson is an amazing inventor and scientist that helped NASA create the technology to receive the Earths first selfie. She also invented the illusion processor which is still used today at NASA, in surgery, and Television. Listen and learn with elementary teacher, mentor and powerful black woman Chwanda!
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History of Black Vacation
Despite segregation, black people vacationed at several beaches at resorts going back as far as 1893. On this episode we discuss the black vaction with Eugene, born in 1947 has been on many vacations including over 30 cruises. Some of these places are now lost to time and others are still thriving areas for black vacationers today. Listen and add these historical landmarks to your next vacation.
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Why do black people vote Democrat?
90 percent of the black vote today goes to the Democratic party, but that has not always been the case. In this episode with guest Don Smith , we explore the history of the black vote and the migration of that vote from the Republican Party, to the Democratic party today.
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Charlotte E Ray the first black female lawyer!
Black women have been fighting through racial and gender bias in America as long as history can tell. Today we discuss a woman that fought through adversity to pursue her dreams to be a lawyer when every obstacle stood against her. With guest today Gail Small.