Category: Racial Justice

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.

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

Fredia “The Cheetah” Gibbs (born July 8, 1963), is an American former professional martial artist, kickboxer, and boxer who competed from 1975 to 2005.^[1] During her kickboxing career, she held ISKA, WKA, and WKF World Titles. Before her kickboxing career she was an All-American in basketball and track.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/aaron-hutcherson

Aaron Hutcherson is a writer and recipe developer for Food at The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, Hutcherson was a freelance writer, recipe developer, photographer and food stylist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Food & Wine, Eater, Thrillist, Taste, Serious Eats, Food52 and Simply Recipes, among other publications. Previously working in wealth management, he nurtured cooking and food writing as a hobby and started a blog, TheHungryHutch.com. Eventually, he changed careers, earning a culinary degree in 2012 from the French Culinary Institute in New York (now the Institute of Culinary Education). Hutcherson has gathered a variety of experience in the food and media worlds since, including times as a restaurant line cook, writer, editor, community manager and social media manager.

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

Constance Baker Motley (née Baker; September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005) was an American jurist and politician who served as a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.