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06/12/2024

Born : 18 Feb 1894 - Died : 23 Jan 1980, Paul R. Williams is “ The Architect Who Shaped Los
Angeles “

Paul R. Williams, known as “The Architect to the Stars,” was a pioneering African American architect whose influence helped define the landscape of Los Angeles in the 20th century. Over his illustrious career, Williams designed over 3,000 buildings, including iconic structures like the Beverly Hills Hotel and homes for Hollywood legends such as Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball. Despite facing racial discrimination, Williams broke barriers and became the first African American member of the American Institute of Architects (AlA). His elegant, innovative designs left an indelible mark on both residential and commercial architecture in Los Angeles.

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06/12/2024

The Story of Yasuke: The African Samurai Yasuke was a man of African origin who arrived in Japan in the 16th century. He is said to have been brought by a Jesuit missionary, and his imposing presence and skills quickly caught the attention of Oda Nobunaga, one of the most powerful daimyo of the time. Nobunaga welcomed him into his court, Where Yasuke became his bodyguard and a respected samural.
Yasuke excelled in battle and was known for his loyalty. His story is a symbol of the plurality and cultural impact that existed in Japan, even in those times.

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03/08/2024

In a historic matchup at the Grand Palais in , Lee Kiefer retained her gold medal in women’s foil fencing by defeating 15-6. Scruggs became the first Black American woman to win an individual fencing medal and expressed hope that her achievement would inspire others in underrepresented communities. Despite the loss, Scruggs made history by beating eventual bronze medalist Eleanor Harvey in the semifinals and balancing her Olympic training with her studies at Harvard.
“In certain communities, fencing is just not a sport you do,” she told NBC News. “So I would say to those people, who are in those communities and who are interested in fencing: Do what you want to do ... and follow your passion.” She added at a news conference that she hoped “more people who look like me feel as though they have a place in the sport.” When asked how it would feel if young Black girls were watching her Sunday night, she responded: “It would be sick.”

03/08/2024

Simone Biles, on top of the world in her discipline with 37 medals in world events (30 in world championships and 7 in the Olympic Games), including a record of 23 world titles since her senior debut in 2012.

She is considered one of the best athletes of all time. Hats off to the artist.

She’s the Greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles is officially the first woman to have executed the Yurchenko double pike vault at the World Gymnastic Championships and now, at the Biggest World sporting festival in the world, Olympic Games in France I.
The Yurchenko double pike vault is considered a herculean ex*****on and the most difficult task, however, the greatest of all time, has been able to successfully performed it consecutively.
Based on her historic ex*****on of the Yurchenko Double Vault Spike, it’s now named after her as Biles II.
Simone Biles has also submitted the original copy of her invented elements on the bar to be outdoored and named after her.

What a legend!
What a legacy!!

26/07/2024

Katherine Johnson was an African-American mathematician whose work was fundamental to NASA. Her precise calculations contributed to the success of the Mercury and Apollo space missions, including the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Her life and work were immortalized in the movie film “Hidden Figures.”

03/07/2024

Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) was a famous French writer
whose dramatic fiction works are still widely read today. Among the most famous of Alexandre Dumas’
novels are The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Dumas wrote plays, essays, novels, and travelogues. He penned a whopping 100,000 pages in his lifetime, including 200 books.

The Count of Monte Cristo wasn’t just a book for Dumas. It was a revenge fantasy he wrote on behalf of his father, a BLACK GENERAL named « Thomas-Alexandre Dumas » who fought in the French Revolution and was ultimately betrayed by Napoleon.

His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of adventure were originally published as serials, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
Since the early 20th century, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 films. Prolific in several genres, Dumas began his career by writing plays, which were successfully produced from the first. He wrote numerous magazine articles and travel books; his published works totalled 100,000 pages. In the 1840s, Dumas founded the Theatre Historique in Paris.

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14/06/2024

Discover the Ghanaian 🇬🇭 Innovator behind , Mr.

He has developed wireless earbuds, that can auto translate over 40 languages.

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29/05/2024

Jerry Lawson
Gaming Pioneer And “Father Of Modern Gaming,” Jerry Lawson, Revolutionized Video Game Industry. Gerald “Jerry” Lawson,
a groundbreaking Black engineer in Silicon Valley, reshaped the gaming landscape with his ingenious work at Fairchild Camera and Instrument in the 1970s.

In 1970, he joined Fairchild Semiconductor in San Francisco as an applications engineering consultant within their sales
division. While there, he created a coin-operated video game called Destruction Derby in his garage, which was never released.

Jerry Lawson was an early pioneer of home video gaming and helped to introduce interchangeable game cartridges. As a black man, he flourished in an industry dominated by white men. His gaming system, the Fairfield Channel F, is considered a precursor to modern gaming systems.

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29/05/2024

George Robert Carruthers was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 1, 1939. An avid science-fiction reader possessing an early interest in astronomy, he built his first telescope when he was 10 years old. He and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, when he was 12.

In 1972 George Carruthers invented the Far « Ultraviolet Electrographic Camera. » This camera uses ultraviolet light to study Earth’s upper atmosphere, stars, and gases in interstellar.

Carruthers’ camera was first used in sounding rocket flights to study stars in 1966. In 1970, it was used to make the first discovery of molecular hydrogen in space. But the camera made its most famous impact in 1972, as Apollo 16 astronauts established the first moon-based observatory in the Descartes highland region.

George Robert Carruthers was an inventor, instrument designer, space scientist, and astrophysicist. He excelled in all, but he was tundamentally an innovator who could combine emerging hardware and techniques in clever ways to record phenomena in electromagnetic wavelengths accessible only above Earth’s atmosphere.

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29/05/2024

The Three-Light Traffic Signal, Invented by Garrett Morgan in 1923. With only an elementary school education, Black inventor (and son of an enslaved parent), Garrett Morgan came up with several significant inventions, including an improved sewing machine and the gas mask.

As “ Traffic Light “ inventor he created what allows the regularization of our everyday movements and trips, between the way to home and work, between the way to school, church, hospital, airport, shopping center etc.
He has made our lives much simpler and more orderly thanks to this sublime Man and his invention.

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