Category: Black Excellence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Hayes

Roland Wiltse Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German, and Italian. Hayes’ predecessors as well-known African-American concert artists, including Sissieretta Jones and Marie Selika, were not recorded. Along with Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson, Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier in the classical repertoire when he recorded with Columbia in 1939.^[2]

https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem

High school students who came up with ‘impossible’ proof of Pythagorean theorem discover 9 more solutions to the problem

Follow-up to post from May 8, 2024

https://campaign.tcu.edu/stories/the-future-of-science.php

These gifted young brothers could have gone to college anywhere. They chose TCU.

You may have heard about TCU’s youngest-ever scholars, brothers Carson and Cannan Huey-You.

If you haven’t, you will. These kids are the future. And the future is looking bright.

Cannan, age 14, is now a TCU junior, and 17-year-old Carson ’17 is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics and getting a master’s along the way.

At 14, Carson was the youngest TCU graduate on record. He started graduate school at TCU before he was eligible to drive. He’s been researching quantum mechanical systems alongside the boys’ academic mentor, Magnus Rittby, and minored in math and Chinese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Richard

Lena Richard (September 9,^[1] 1892 or 1893 – November 27, 1950) was a chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, frozen food entrepreneur, and television host from New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2] In 1949, Richard became the first Black woman to host her own television cooking show.^[3] Her show aired from October 1949 – November 1950 on local television station WDSU.^[4][5][2]

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/g-s1-30027/ka-rapper-brownsville-remembrance

The late Brownsville MC rapped from an intense commitment to writing as a form, and a DIY ethic that put him in charge of every aspect of his business

https://soundbetter.com/profiles/569384-anwar-sawyer

Anwar Sawyer is a producer/songwriter based out of Los Angeles. He grew up surrounded and influenced in music from gospel to the soulful R&B sounds of his uncles hit group, Blue Magic. He studied classical piano and composition at Westminster Choir College and Nyack College School of Music. Following school, he began engineering & producing with Grammy Nominated artists like Maino “Brooklyn” & Sak Noel “Young and Reckless” and placed many songs in countless movies and TV shows.

https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/alumni/richard-theodore-greener

Harvard’s first Black graduate, Richard T. Greener, went on to become the first Black professor at the University of South Carolina and dean of the Howard University School of Law.

Born in Philadelphia in 1844, Richard T. Greener moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his parents at age nine. He dropped out of school at age 11 to help support the family, after his father went to seek fortune in the California Gold Rush and never returned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_Jones_Kaufman_Pearson

Monica Jones Kaufman Pearson (born October 20, 1947) is an American journalist and news anchor. Pearson’s career first started in Louisville, Kentucky, as an anchor and reporter for WHAS-TV, while also working as a reporter for the Louisville Times. When Pearson moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1975, she became the first female and African-American to anchor the evening news at WSB-TV.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/10/21/g-s1-27810/climate-change-weather-app-farm

This farmer ‘planted blindly’ in a changing climate. A weather app came to his rescue

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elizabeth-francis-oldest-living-person-234300631.html

Elizabeth Francis, who was the oldest living person in the United States, has died. She was 115.

At the time of her death, Francis was the oldest living person in the U.S. and the third-oldest person in the world, according to LongeviQuest, a global database of the world’s oldest individuals. She lived most of her life in Houston, Texas, per a press release from the database.