Black History Month!

As Black History month comes To a close, i feel like we have lost sight of what made us great! I also feel like many of us do not contribute to the continuation of "Black History'! I Believe that many of us have sat back and feel accomplished because we have a "Black president". While that is a great achievement we must continue to strive for better! Instead of teaching the next generation how to curse better and be promiscuous we need to get in touch with our roots! Here are some little know facts that we could teach as opposed to learning the newest Lil Wayne song! if Women imitated Rosa Parks, or Coretta Scott-King instead of Nicki Minaj...We would all have a better future!



• According to the 1930 Census, the white population of New York (was) a third more illiterate than the 'Negro' one.
• Dr. Daniel Williams was the first to perform a successful operation on the human heart, a Chicago surgeon who died in 1931.
• In 1892 George T. Sampson invented a clothes dryer that used heat from the stove.
• Dr. Charles Drew invented Blood Banks and discovered the technique for storing blood.
• Thomas J. Martin patented a fire extinguisher in 1872
• Alexa Canady became the first female African-American neurosurgeon in the United States. She graduated from medical school in 1975.


References: Black History, http://www.history.com/content/blackhistory , (1996-2010)