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- UNCF stands for United Negro College Fund and its slogan is “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.”
- One of the OLDEST universities in the world is located in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Azhar University is a Muslim institution founded in the 10th century.
- The Ebos people of Africa are the subject of the book titled Ebony Sea by Irene Smalls. The Ebos people REFUSED to become slaves.
- The 18th century invention for cleaning cotton was called the ‘cotton gin’ and its ability to speed up cotton processing also increased the demand for slave labor to pick cotton.
- As Shirley Chisolm was the FIRST African American (and the first woman) to make a bid for the US Presidency, Jesse Jackson was the second to do the same in 1983.
- William A. Hinton, famous for his work in venereal disease, developed the Hinton test for syphilis in the 1950’s.
- “Mealies” is a staple food in southern Africa, but in the United States we call it corn.
- Phyllis Wheatley‘s earliest ‘surviving’ poem is dated 1767. It is titled “To The University of Cambridge in New England” and addressed Harvard University.
- The BLACK navigator of the Santa Maria on Columbus’ first voyage to the New World was named Pedro Alonzo Nino.
- Stevie Wonder‘s birth name is Steveland Morris Judkins and he was born in 1950.
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