Twenty-Eight days of Black History ( Locked) (132)

Black History Black History the story of my people means a lot to me where you come from shouldn't be a mystery...
So you tell me, who do you know besides Martin Luther King?

Ronald B. Johnson P.H.D Nasa Astronaut
While at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. McNair performed some of the earliest development of chemical HF/DF and high-pressure CO lasers. His later experiments and theoretical analysis on the interaction of intense CO2 laser radiation with molecular gases provided new understandings and applications for highly excited polyatomic molecules.
He first flew as a mission specialist on STS 41-B which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on February 3, 1984. The crew included spacecraft commander, Mr. Vance Brand, the pilot, Commander Robert L. Gibson, and fellow mission specialists, Captain Bruce McCandless II, and Lt. Col. Robert L. Stewart. The flight accomplished the proper shuttle deployment of two Hughes 376 communications satellites, as well as the flight testing of rendezvous sensors and computer programs. This mission marked the first flight of the Manned Maneuvering Unit and the first use of the Canadian arm (operated by McNair) to position EVA crewman around Challenger’s payload bay. Included were the German SPAS-01 Satellite, acoustic levitation and chemical separation experiments, the Cinema 360 motion picture filming, five Getaway Specials, and numerous mid-deck experiments -- all of which Dr. McNair assumed primary responsibility. Challenger culminated in the first landing on the runway at Kennedy Space Center on February 11, 1984. With the completion of this flight, he logged a total of 191 hours in space.

Dr. McNair was assigned as a mission specialist on STS 51-L. Dr. McNair died on January 28, 1986 when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, also taking the lives of the spacecraft commander, Mr. F.R. Scobee, the pilot, Commander M.J. Smith (USN), mission specialists, Lieutenant Colonel E.S. Onizuka (USAF), and Dr. J.A. Resnik, and two civilian payload specialists, Mr. G.B. Jarvis and Mrs. S. C. McAuliffe.

President Obama..

Here I go again!! OBama is bi-racial, not black!!

Josephine Baker
An American expatriate entertainer and actress. She became a French citizen in 1937. Most noted as a singer, Baker also was a celebrated dancer in her early career. She was given the nicknames the "Bronze Venus" or the "Black Pearl", as well as the "Créole Goddess" in anglophone nations. In France, she has always been known as "La Baker".

Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. She is also noted for her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (she was offered the leadership of the movement by Coretta Scott King in 1968 following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during the Second World War and being the first American-born woman to receive the highest French military honor, the Croix de Guerre, and for being an inspiration to generations of African American female entertainers and others.

if you are 1% black in the U.S. then you are black...yes, here we go again.

explain why JayZZZZZZZ wrote a song called "Black President" and made millions...

People will buy anything!! How many records by Bob Dylasn??? I rest my case

Two a day, one man one woman, Africans overshadowed by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. To all of my positive Brothers and Sisters out there in the Grind, hold your head. To all of the unnamed Soliders of Righteousness that not just "paved" the way but "made" the way for a generation of ingrates...
We haven't all forgotten.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- The election of U.S. President Barack Obama will help make 2009's Black History Month a unique celebration of black accomplishments, experts say.

NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous said Obama's inauguration weeks before the start of February, which is Black History Month in the United States, makes this a special year for the U.S. black population, USA Today said Monday.

"We celebrate whenever a glass ceiling is broken and the presidency may be the highest glass ceiling," Jealous said.

This month also marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the NAACP, which was formed on Feb. 12, 1909.

African American studies professor Gerald Early of St. Louis' Washington University agreed that Obama's new post will enhance Black History Month as it as increased hope for positive race relations nationwide.

"With Obama as president, I think people are more optimistic about race relations than they've been in a long time," he told USA Today.

The newspaper said the NAACP has planned scores of events throughout the United States this month to celebrate such accomplishments by the nation's black community.