Figure 1. Selected Black ophthalmologist pioneers in historical context. Despite the cost of overseas education and training, Howard P. Venable, MD, a pioneer in ophthalmology, had attended the University of Switzerland for several months to supplement his training in glaucoma. Charles Victor Roman,...
Before there was Fenty, there was Madame CJ Walker. But not only her, there were dozens, then hundreds and then thousands of people, who built the black beauty industry. And those pioneers didn’t just want to make rouge, they wanted a revolution. For many years, much of the beauty pro...
final resting-place of some of New York's earliest African and African American pioneers. And it is an enduring testament to their history,” wrote historian and former LPC Commissioner Christopher Moore in this essay:https://www.nps.gov/afbg/learn/historyculture/african-burial-ground-in-...
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Some of the pioneers of that experimental drug movement were Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg. Buddhist Ram DasRam Das, above, in particular, is an avowed enemy of orthodox Judeo-Christian religious tradition and proponent of a mass conversion to Hinduism and other forms of Eastern ...
In her 40 year career at NASA, Ms. Darden became one of the world’s top leading experts in that area. Ms. Darden had started her career at NASA in 1967 when by then it had become desegregated and she had known some of the women who were pioneers in that first group of West Compu...
This is no child play. These people are extremely serious, secretive, highly financed, scientific and committed. From the 16th to the early 20th century, black people were herded in America by total brute police force. More so than ever before, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,...
Anne Moody, whose searing memoir, “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” told what it was like to grow up black in the era of Jim Crow, died on Feb. 5 at her home in Gloster, Miss. She was 74. Her death was announced on the website of Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Democrat of ...