{"id":343,"date":"2008-02-15T09:18:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2008-02-29T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T17:50:34","slug":"black-history-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/black-history-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. UNCF stands for United Negro College Fund<\/a> and its slogan is “A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.”<\/li>\n
  2. One of the OLDEST universities in the world is located in Cairo, Egypt. Al-Azhar University<\/a> is a Muslim institution founded in the 10th century.<\/li>\n
  3. The Ebos people of Africa are the subject of the book titled Ebony Sea<\/a><\/em> by Irene Smalls. The Ebos people REFUSED to become slaves.<\/li>\n
  4. 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.<\/li>\n
  5. As Shirley Chisolm<\/a> was the FIRST African American (and the first woman) to make a bid for the US Presidency, Jesse Jackson<\/a> was the second to do the same in 1983.<\/li>\n
  6. William A. Hinton<\/a>, famous for his work in venereal disease, developed the Hinton test for syphilis in the 1950’s.<\/li>\n
  7. “Mealies” is a staple food in southern Africa, but in the United States we call it corn.<\/li>\n
  8. Phyllis Wheatley<\/a>‘s earliest ‘surviving’ poem is dated 1767. It is titled “To The University of Cambridge in New England<\/em>” and addressed Harvard University.<\/li>\n
  9. The BLACK navigator of the Santa Maria on Columbus’ first voyage to the New World was named Pedro Alonzo Nino.<\/li>\n
  10. Stevie Wonder<\/a>‘s birth name is Steveland Morris Judkins and he was born in 1950.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 … Read moreBlack History Day 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluephi.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}