Category: Racial Justice

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

Kelis Rogers (/kəˈliːs/;^[2] born August 21, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and chef.^[3] She attended New York‘s Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts,^[4] where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem.^[5] Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998.^[6][7]

Food is ministry

https://thephoenixnewspaper.com/meet-the-imafidons-the-smartest-family-in-the-uk

The Imafidon family was recently named the smartest family in Britain.

Hailing from Nigeria, husband, Dr. Chris Imafidon and wife Ann, are parents to twelve-year-old twins Peter and Paula, who made history as the youngest children in ever, in the United Kingdom, to attend high school – before then also setting world records by passing A/AS-level math papers.

Sister, Anne-Marie Imafidon, graduated from high school at the age of 10, before gaining her Master’s Degree from Oxford University, at the age of 17 – becoming the youngest person to pass the A-level computing exam. And it doesn’t stop there.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/10/31/nx-s1-5172517/caregiver-caregiving-isolation-burnout-resources

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.

Bayo Akomolafe

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