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GAME DAYYYYY! How are you feeling about finals?

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Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.

Six feet tall, with a powerful voice and driven by deep religious conviction, Truth was an ardent abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Among many of Truth’s legacies, the tone and substance of her language loom large. She stumped the country speaking on emancipation, politicians, political action, racism, women’s rights and segregation.

Perhaps her best-known speech was the stirring “Ain’t I a Woman?” delivered at a women’s convention in Ohio in 1851. When Truth died in 1883, her funeral in Battle Creek, Michigan was the largest the town had ever seen, a testimony to how her heroic and courageous life touched so many around her.

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Yousafzai began fighting for girls’ rights to education in Pakistan at just 11 years old. Pakistan is strongly against educating women (cultural beliefs.) Due to her advocation and fight for equal rights, Malala was shot. After surviving the assassination attempt a few years later, she has courageously continued to be a worldwide voice for young women. In 2014, she became the world’s youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Finals are this Thursday and Friday. Set some goals for yourself to finish strong and what do you want to achieve next quarter?

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Scarlin Hernandez was born in 1991, in the Dominican Republic and moved to Brooklyn, NY at the age of 4. She graduated with a degree in computer engineering from Capitol Technology University in Laurel, Maryland in 2013.

She is a spacecraft engineer for NASA’s signature space mission, the James Webb Space Telescope. As a spacecraft engineer an important part of her work is to test the ground systems that will command and control the telescope after it has been launched into space. The telescope is set to launch in 2021 and  will be used to discover new planets and the first stars after the dark ages.  The National Science Foundation awarded her a full college scholarship to the Capitol Technology University (CTU) in Laurel, MD.  Scarlin completed a internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and by the age of 20, she was part of the ground control system team for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite.  In 2013, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, but she found her real niche in Astronautical Engineering.  After graduation, Scarlin was the mission planning lead for the TRMM mission before transferring to work on the James Webb Space Telescope mission.

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Susana López Charretón is a mexican Virologist, who has studied Rotavirus. Rotavirus is a double-stranded RNA virus, which causes nausea and diarrhea. It’s very common in children from 3 months to 3years old. Her research focused on how Rotavirus is spread, our immune response, and how it replicates. In 2012, Susana won the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science international awards for her research.

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What did you do this weekend?

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Friyay!

What do you plan to do this weekend?

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What does success look like to you?

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Born on January 3, 1793 on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, Lucrecia Mott along with her supportive husband, argued ardently for the abolitionist cause as members of the American Anti-Slavery Society in the 1830's. Mott was a founder of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 but not everyone supported women's public speaking so she faced a lot of backlash. This however did not stop Mott from speaking out on not only slavery but gender equality.

She eventually teamed up with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and created the Seneca Falls Convention which was attended by hundreds of people including Frederick Douglass. Here she presented a Declaration of Sentiments which demanded not only rights for women but that the word "woman" be inserted into the Declaration of Independence and more importantly giving women the right to vote, which fueled the woman suffrage movement eventually.

She and her husband also allowed their Philadelphia-area home to be a stop on the Underground Railroad, allowing slaves a place to hide and rest as they sought freedom. In 1866, Mott joined with Stanton, Anthony, and Stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association. The following year, the organization became active in Kansas where black suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote, and it was then that Stanton and Anthony formed a political alliance with Train, leading to Mott's resignation. Kansas failed to pass both referendums

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What is one woman in history that you know of and what impact did they make?

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Mamba Mentality Monday:

What do you plan to attack this week?

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Happy National Women's Month. Who is one woman you are grateful for and why?

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How is your clinical site going thus far?

P.2 What is your dream job and how do you plan to get their?

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Serena burst into the scene of tennis as an anomaly most would say. Not because of her talent but, because of the color of her skin. It all starts with Venus and Serena. The demonstration effect. The power of seeing two African-American girls with braids in the finals of the biggest tournaments in the world in a predominantly white sport. Just a huge impact that really can't be overstated. That attracted thousands of girls into the sport, not just African-American but all backgrounds and races.” She participates in the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to those who might have been denied a fair trial. She is an International Goodwill Ambassador with UNICEF and has helped launch UNICEFs Schools for Asia Campaign. She funded a school to be built in Kenya and Jamaica.

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Yara is an actress who starred along Eddie Murphy in Imagine that BUT got her biggest break in Black-ish which began in 2014 as Zoey Johnson. She eventually got a spin off called grown-ish. She is also known as an activist for feminism and STEM awareness. Yara started off with Yaras Club in high school which was an online mentorship program with a goal of ending poverty through education. She has completed many projects before the age of 21 and this is just the beginning for her. She has a production company with her mom called 7th Sun Productions. She founded Eighteen x 18 with social publisher Now This in order to encourage younger people to vote. Shahidi graduated from Harvard in 2022 studying Sociology and Black American Studies.

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What did you do over ski week?

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Give me a black history month figure that you know and 2 facts about them

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Chadwick Boseman

Over the course of his two-decade career, actor Chadwick Boseman won numerous honors, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a nomination for an Academy Award. His leading part in Black Panther is what made him most famous.

Boseman has given young Black kids a Black superhero to aspire to be like. Boseman went above and beyond to ensure that his African ancestry was respected in the movie, battling for the right accent for his role, T'Challa. He sought to emphasize the diversity of Black culture instead of allowing stereotypes of African culture to appear on screen, and as a result, the movie became a landmark.

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Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. Douglass was born into slavery in Talbot County, Maryland. Eventually in 1838, Douglass escaped via train to New York and became a free man.

He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, an independent black denomination first established in New York City, which counted among its members Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. He became a licensed preacher in 1839, which helped him to hone his oratorical skills.

Many people believed slaves were highly uneducated and considered them useless. Douglass changed this perspective through his autobiographies that he wrote. He showed that slaves are intelligent and it was merely an excuse used to hold black people in a low position. Douglass was very outspoken and gave many speeches about abolishing slavery in the United States. He was utilized as an example of how anyone could be intelligent if given the tools to and that slavery was a method to prevent blacks from progressing in the U.S.

Showing just how great of a man he was, Douglass eventually met backup with his original owner on his death bed and reconciled which he said gave him peace.

Frederick Douglass was an important part of history because he proved everyone wrong and he consistently challenged the views of America in a way no other black man has before.

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Mary Eliza Mahoney was the first black professional nurse in America, and an active organizer among African American nurses. She was born in Boston, on May 7, 1845, the oldest of three children. At the age of 18, she decided to pursue a career in nursing, working at the progressive New England Hospital for Women and Children. In 1878, at age 33, she was accepted in that hospital's nursing school, the first professional nursing program in the country. Of the 42 students who started that year, Mahoney was one of just four who graduated the next year. The training required 12 months in the hospital's medical, surgical, and maternity wards, lectures and instruction by doctors on the ward, as well as four months of work as a private-duty nurse.

After graduation, Mahoney registered for work as a private-duty nurse. Families that employed Mahoney praised her calm and quiet efficiency. Her professionalism helped raise the status of all nurses. At a time when nurses were often assigned domestic chores as well as nursing duties, she refused to take her meals with household staff. As he reputation spread, Mahoney received requests from patients as far away as New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina.

Mahoney was one of the first black members of the organization that later became the American Nurses Association (A.N.A.). When that later organization proved slow to admit black nurses, Mahoney strongly supported the establishment of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (N.A.C.G.N.), and delivered the welcome address at that organization's first annual convention, in 1909. In that speech, Mahoney recognized the inequalities in nursing education and called for a demonstration at the New England Hospital to have more African American students admitted. The conference members responded by electing her to be association chaplain and giving her a lifetime membership.

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Ben Carson. At the age of 33, Dr. Carson became the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, making him the youngest major division director in the hospital’s history. This would be among an extensive list of outstanding firsts for Dr. Carson. Dr. Carson’s accomplishments have earned him a place in medical history. He performed the first and only successful separation of craniopagus (Siamese) twins joined at the back of the head in 1987. He also performed the first fully successful separation of type-2 vertical craniopagus twins in 1997 in South Africa. In his career, Dr. Carson became a professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery, and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and directed pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for over 29 years. He became the inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in his name in May 2008. He is now the Emeritus Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. and Dr. Evelyn Spiro, R.N. Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery, having retired on June 30, 2013. He also ran for president of the united states in 2016. His list of accomplishments are of many (too many to list.)

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Mamba Mentality Monday!

What do you plan on attacking this week?

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Ida B. Wells was an African-American journalist and educator who was also an early civil rights leader. She was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Similarly to Sojourner Truth, Wells was born into slavery. Later freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, she lost the majority of her family to yellow fever when she was only 16 years old.

She spent most of her life working as a teacher and investigative reporter, documenting lynching and racial violence in the US during the late 1800s and early 1900s. She even travelled internationally, exposing others to what was going on in the US, even if she was often shunned or ignored.

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“Opportunities don't happen, you create them.”

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"Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith."

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Mamba Mentality Monday

What are you going to attack this week?

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"the most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do" - Kobe Bryant

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Thankful Thursday! What are you thankful for?

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“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” — Nelson Mandela

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“A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” — Naomi Judd

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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What are your plans for this weekend?

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What is one food you could eat every day for the rest of your life?

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What is a dream you have for yourself?

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What are your goals for 2024.

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favorite food?