Black History: Special Delivery!!
A powerful quote from Malcolm X!!
“That’s Not A Chip On My Shoulder. That’s Your Foot On My Neck” – Malcolm X
Black History: Special Delivery!!
Surely our need to educate, inform, and inspire cannot be confined to one month out of the year?
Embracing Black History, past, present, and future is a “life-long” pursuit, not a “month-long” pit stop.
Enid Gaddis, Blackmail4u.com ©2017
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Dr. Myra A. Logan (1908-1977) made history in 1943 by becoming the first woman to operate on a human heart. Logan was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father was the treasurer of Tuskegee Institute. Her mother was well known suffragist and health care advocate. Her mother also had a college degree, which would have been rare at that time. Logan earned an MS in psychology from Columbia University. She then was awarded a scholarship to attend New York Medical College. She graduated in 1933 and completed an internship at Harlem Hospital in the emergency room. Continue reading “Dr. Myra Adele Logan: First Woman To Perform Open Heart Surgery”
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Racial superiority is a mere “PIGMENT” of the imagination.
~Author Unknown
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“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”
-Shirley Chisholm
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