Communities That Care Coalition
Promoting health, well-being, and equity among young people in Franklin County and the North Quabbin
Dawn Shedrick is matter-of-fact about the heartbreaks of caregiving. She is clear and calm when she describes its hardships and grief. She has looked after her mother, who has multiple sclerosis, for more than 30 years. She has been through a lot, and she keeps going.
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]
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.