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Let's normalise afro hair in the Black community again. ❤️

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Thomas Fuller, an African soId into sIavery in 1724 at the age of 14, was sometimes known as the “Virginia Calculator” for his extraordinary ability to solve complex math problems in his head. He was asked how many seconds there were in a year and a half, he answered in about two minutes, 47,304,000. Again he was asked how many seconds a man has lived who is 70 years, 17 days and 12 hours old, he answered in a minute and a half 2,210,500,800.

One of the men was working out the problems on paper, and informed Fuller that he was wrong, because the answer was much smaller. Fuller hastily replied, "'Top, massa, you forget de leap year." When the leap year was added in, the sums matched.

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Oseola McCarty was a Mississippi philanthropist who donated most of her life savings, $150,000, to the University of Southern Mississippi to provide scholarships for African American students in need. A seamstress and washerwoman who was paid mostly in dollar bills and loose change her entire life, McCarty was praised for her generosity and received many awards, including a statue and honorary degree from the university. McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Shubuta, Mississippi, and died on September 26, 1999, at the age of 91, at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi

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Dr. Gladys West, the brilliant Black mathematician whose groundbreaking work helped lay the foundation for modern GPS technology, died on January 17, 2026, at the age of 95.

For decades, she worked behind the scenes using mathematics, satellites, and computer modelling to create highly accurate models of Earth—work that became crucial to the GPS technology billions of people use today.

Her contributions went largely unrecognized for much of her career, but her legacy will live on every time we use GPS to find our way.

Rest in power, Dr. Gladys Mae West. 🕊️

A Black woman whose mathematics helped the world find its way.

5 days ago | [YT] | 378,612

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A portrait that can speak! Ase!

Artist: Michael Rosato
The Harriet Tubman Mural
Located behind 424 Race Street in Cambridge, Maryland, on an exterior wall of the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Centre.

1 week ago | [YT] | 64,053

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Sometime in the late 40’s, before either man were world famous, Frank Sinatra appeared in a theatre in New York. After his show, he went to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio led by a young Sammy Davis Jr. Frank is blown away by Sammy’s talent, and after the show, he asks Sammy to come see his show.

A week goes by. No Sammy. Sinatra goes back to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio again and asks Sammy why he didn’t show. Sammy said he was there, but they wouldn’t let him in. Frank stormed back to the theatre, tore up his contract in front of them, and never performed there again. That would be a common theme during the course of their friendship and careers. When Sammy wasn’t allowed to play at the Copacabana, Frank wouldn’t play there either.

When Sammy was refused a Las Vegas hotel room, Frank said, “Give him my room!” After Sammy’s car accident where he lost his eye, it was Sinatra who paid all his medical bills. After 5 decades and 40 years of performing together, a reporter once asked Frank why he was always so charitable to Sammy. Frank responded in three words, “He’s my brother.”

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Honouring the 1st Black American officers in the Women's Army Corps, she served as a commander of the Women's Colored Detachment. - Millie Bailey.

She was an American World Wąr II veteran, civil servant, and volunteer. She was a fundraiser for education, health, and military service personnel.

She was 104 years old when she passed away in May of 2022

Thank you for your service!! 🕊

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Let's ceIebrate this champ 🏆 👏🏿

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Meet Valerie L. Thomas, the Mother of Modern television.

Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor.

She invented the illusion transmitter( 3D motion pictures), for which she received a patent in 1980.

She was responsible for developing the digital media formats image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.

Valerie Thomas, is also responsible for the longest-running satellite program imaging Earth’s surface.
During Thomas’s three-decade career at NASA, she connected scientists with the data they need to understand our planet.

She made her Mark 👑🙌🏿

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I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me. - Kwame Nkrumah.

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