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đĽâ¨ Queen Yaa Asantewaa: The Warrior Queen of the Ashanti â¨đĽ
Did you know about Yaa Asantewaa, the fearless queen who led an army against British colonialism? đâď¸
In 1900, when the British demanded the Golden Stool (the sacred symbol of the Ashanti nation), Yaa Asantewaa refused to back down. She rallied her people with these powerful words:
"If you, the men of Ashanti, will not go forward, then we will. We, the women, will. I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight till the last of us falls in the battlefields."
đĽ She led the War of the Golden Stool, becoming one of the few women in history to command a major war against colonial forces. Though the British eventually exiled her, her legacy of resistance and courage lives on.
đŞ Yaa Asantewaa remains a symbol of strength, leadership, and unshakable defiance. Letâs honor her today and always!
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Andre Douglas
A Virginia native, Andre Douglas served in the U.S. Coast Guard as a naval architect and salvage engineer. Douglas later worked as an engineer for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on NASA's DART mission to redirect an asteroid. https://go.nasa.gov/48FBlam
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HBCU Students Make Moves with NASA Tech
In September 2023, students at HBCUs participated in a hackathon at the National HBCU Week Conference, where they used NASAâs technologies to create solutions to problems that affect Black communities. The winning team, Team Airtek, proposed a nano-sensor array for medical diagnoses that would give students on HBCU campuses a non-invasive, non-intensive way to test themselves for precursors for diseases and illnesses like diabetes and COVID.
The hackathon they participated in is a modified version of the full NASA Minority University Research and Education Project Innovation and Tech Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC) that takes place each fall and spring semester at NASAâs Johnson Space Center in Houston.
No matter what youâre studying, you can join the MITTIC competition and come up with new and innovative tech to help your community and the world.
MITTIC could be the beginning of your career pathway: Teams can go on exclusive NASA tours and network with industry experts. Show off your entrepreneurial skills and your team could earn moneyâand bragging rights.
Donât wait too long to apply or to share with someone who should apply! The deadline for proposals is Oct. 16, 2023. Apply here: https://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/nasamittic.
Guy Bluford Changed the Course of Space History
On Aug. 30, 1983, Guion Bluford, better known as Guy, became the first African American to fly to space. An accomplished jet pilot and aerospace engineer, Bluford became part of NASAâs 1978 astronaut class that included the first African American, the first Asian American, and the first women astronauts.
He and the other crew members of mission STS-8 were aboard the orbiter Challenger as it lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida; it was the first nighttime launch and landing of the Space Shuttle program. While aboard, he and the other crew members deployed the Indian National Satellite (INSAT-1B), operated a Canadian-built robot arm, conducted experiments with live cell samples, and participated in studies measuring the effects of spaceflight on humans.
Guy Bluford chased his childhood dream of becoming an aerospace engineer, and in doing so, changed history and encouraged other Black astronauts to follow in his footsteps.
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Moon Mountain Named After Melba Roy Mouton, NASA Mathematician
Award-winning NASA mathematician and computer programmer Melba Mouton is being honored with the naming of a mountain at the Moonâs South Pole. Mouton joined NASA in 1959, just a year after the space agency was established. She was the leader of a team that coded computer programs to calculate spacecraft trajectories and locations. Her contributions were instrumental to landing the first humans on the Moon.
She also led the group of "human computers," who tracked the Echo satellites. Roy and her team's computations helped produce the orbital element timetables by which millions could view the satellite from Earth as it passed overhead.
The towering lunar landmark now known as âMons Moutonâ stands at a height greater than 19,000 feet. The mountain was created over billions of years by lunar impacts. Huge craters lie around its baseâsome with cliff-like edges that descend into areas of permanent darkness. Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our first robotic Moon rover. The rover will explore the Moonâs surface to help gain a better understanding of the origin of lunar water. Here are things to know:
Mons Mouton is a wide, relatively flat-topped mountain that stretches roughly 2,700 square miles
The mountain is the highest spot at the Moonâs South Pole and can be seen from Earth with a telescope
Our VIPER Moon rover will explore Mons Mouton over the course of its 100-day mission
VIPER will map potential resources which will help inform future landing sites under our Artemis program
The VIPER mission is managed by our Ames Research Center in Californiaâs Silicon Valley. The approximately 1,000-pound rover will be delivered to the Moon by a commercial vendor as part of our Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, delivering science and technology payloads to and near the Moon.
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A love and a heart that kept on giving. Even when backs were turned against him and he was given nothing in return. One of the sweetest and STRONGEST souls I know. You inspire me daily. Inspiring me to be fearless, to love more, to give more, to be who I am without any apologies. My heart is still hurting knowing what you had to endure on this earth, but you are such a blessing to me, to so many. I thank God for you. My heart, my angel. This love is for a lifetime. I love you.
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Remembering the great activist & artist, Valerie Maynard (1937 - 2022)
âNo Apartheid Anywhereâ (1995)
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Black and Blessed
Black excellence is not achieved when your standards are less then excellent.
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Michelle Obama meets her deadlines
Serena Williams doesnât come late to practice. Nor does she come unprepared.
Madam CJ Walker didnât make her million by letting her dreams stay dreams.
Oprah didnât wait for things to be handed to her. she created and fulfilled opportunities by her own means.
We are not excellent simply because our skin reflects gold.
We are excellent because we work for it.
Because we are blessed and highly favored.
God doesnât give to those who donât work.
God does not give to those who do not work.
Ask and you shall receive , seek and ye shall find, knock and the door will opened unto you.
If you donât ask you wonât receive
Pray for everything and receive double that.
Seek and you will find.
If you walk around clueless but do not search you canât find the treasures that are hidden away only for you.
Everyone may be looking for gold but itâs only though God that you will find it.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you.
If the door of opportunity presents its self to you and you do not present yourself to it. Youâre going to remain in the same spot outside of a closed door.
The door is not waiting for you to knock.
You have to get up and knock on that door before someone else does.
You have to go find that door, to knock.
You have to ask for the door to even be a door before you can go find it and knock on it.
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To be black and blessed.
To put God first.
To work for your blessings.
To know that your skin color does not define you.
Hand study of my hand đđž
Shoutout to dark skin girls!!
Dark skin girls like me who are too insecure to post a pic on blackout day due to constant racism and bullying.
BLACK EXCELLENCE
BLACK EXCELLENCE
BLACK EXCELLENCE
BLACK EXCELLENCE
BLACK EXCELLENCE
OMG FRANCE!! YOU GO FRANCE!!! đđđđ
FRANCE WON
I'm so glad a team that is half black is making it to the finals.
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