Facts On Black...

On This Day In...

• Alcorn A&M College opened-1872
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• Carter G. Woodson creates Negro History Week-1926
  In 1976 it became Black History Month.
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• Irwin Molison appointed judge of the US Customs
  Court-1945
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• Comedian, author, recording artist, actor, and talk show host Chris Rock was born in South Carolina. He will become a critically comedian, hosting his self titled show on HBO. He will also bring to the forefront a boycott of the flag of his birthplace. He will star in and make a few movies of his own-1967
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• Grenada achieves independence from Great Britain-1974

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Facts On black...

On this day in Black History:

• First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back
  to Africa, from New York to Sierra Leone, 1820

• Melvin B. Tolson, author, educator, poet, born-1898
• Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae star is born.
• Jail-in movement started in Rock Hill, S.C., when students refused to pay fines and requested jail sentences. Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee urged south-wide "Jail, No Bail" campaign.

A day that stunned the nation....

In 1993, Tennis player Arthur Ashe dies. Ashe was the first African American to win at Wimbledon.

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Facts on Black...

Did you know on this day in history:

• Congressman Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to Freedmen's Bureau bill authorizing the distribution of public land and confiscated land to freedmen and loyal refugees in forty acre lots. The measure was defeated in the House by a vote of 126 to 37. A Black delegation, led by Frederick Douglas called on President Johnson and urged ballots for former slaves. Meeting ended in disagreement and controversy after Johnson reiterated his opposition to Black suffrage. -1866
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• Henry "Home Run King" Aaron, baseball superstar
  was born.-1934
• Singer Natalie Cole, daughter of legedary singer Nat Cole, born in Los Angeles, California. Singing professionally at age 11, by 1976 Cole had won Grammys for New Artist of the Year and Best R&B Female Vocalist.-1950
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  Columbia University graduate and Harvard University law student Barack Obabma became the first African American named president of the Harvard Law Review.-1990

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Facts on Black...

This Day in...

• France abolishes slavery. The nation will have a lukewarm commitment to abolition and will, under Napoleon, reestablish slavery in 1802 along with the reinstitution of the "Code noir", prohibiting blacks, mulattoes and other people of color from entering French colonial territory or intermarrying with whites. -1794
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• Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama-1913

• National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington, North Carolina. Two persons killed. Until the 9th.-1971

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  • J.C. Watts becomes the first Black selected to respond
  to a state of the unioun address.-1996

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Thought You'd Like To know...Your Historical Facts...

On February 3rd...

• Reginald F. Lewis was born on this day in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1968. He was a partner in Murphy, Thorpes& Lewis, the first black law firm on Wall Street. In 1989 he became president and CEO of TLC Beatrice International food Company, Lewis became the head of the largest black-owned business in the United States. TLC Beatrice had revenues of $1.54 billion in 1992.

• Jack Johnson- On February 3, 1903; Jackson became the first Negro Heavyweight Champion

• February 3^rd 1948 Rosa Ingram and her fourteen-and sixteen -year-old sons condemned to death for the alleged murder of a white Georgian. Mrs. Ingram said she acted in self-defense.

• February 3^rd 1989 Tennis professional Lori McNeil defeated Chris Evert in the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.

• February 3^rd 1999 On Wednesday, February 3rd, for the first time in history, America's urban students will have a Web site specifically designed to address their educational needs and interests. The site -- called the Cyber-Youth Network -- provides a model for online education by offering students and teachers culturally relevant material that is both educational and entertaining.

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I'm Taggalicious!

My sis Rosemarie has tagged me, ouch! She's heavy-handed :)

The Rules are as follows:
Link to the person who tagged me, list 7 weird things about myself and then tag 7 others to play along. And, most importantly, let them know they have been tagged.
Rosemarie I can't say they're weird, but it's what I do"

1. I don't like the smell of mayo, boiled hot dogs, or ramen noodles...it makes me gag.
   
2. You know how you scrape your plate, and food may remain stuck on it? If I see soggy bread, or egg skin floating in dishwater (or on a dish), I will not touch the dishwater (or dish)-I become upset and make the errant child remove the offensive foodstuff.
   
3. If I say NO, anyone who knows me will NEVER ask me to change my mind. I mean what i say, I say what I mean.
   
4. I can hear, smell and TASTE a lie a mile away...I will also CALL U ON THE CARPET about it.
   
5. If you don't want to hear the truth. DO NOT ASK ME THE QUESTION.
   
6. I hated my mother for 38 years (i'm 39). IMO she wasn't a mother, just a fixture in our in my life. With my children's earnest prayer and wanting to please God, when I tell her 'I love you' I now mean it.
7. God has put a 'bodyguard' spirit in me and my children. We protect the underdog (vulnerable), i.e. homeless, bullied kids, person who ran out of gas etc, when idiots are offensive to them. We're always wanting to help the helpless.

Now that you've learned about me, I'm now Tagging:
Mizrepresent
Loveable
HottSauce
Deeze (hope she responds)
Angel
Sheila
AJ
&
Invisible Woman (I.W. makes 8...this is my girl, I have to represent!)

If you're going for it, let me know when you've hooked the post up :)

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Betcha didn't know these Interesting Money Facts!

I came across these facts at Ann's blog The Old Black Church by way of a website called Tomboutus

I found this list on Tomboutus a few hours ago and thought I would share it with you. Before you can ever start to increase your wealth or even save money for that matter you have to change the way you think about money. This list shows how Americans truly feel about the almighty dollar. How many of these psychological feelings about money do you agree with?

1. More of our fantasies are about money… than sex.
2. If we could have any luxury in the world (and money didn’t matter) more of us would choose to spend money on a butler and a maid than anything else.
3. 90% of Americans who own pets buy them Christmas gifts.
4. Money is the leading cause of disagreements in marriages.
5. 65% of Americans would live on a deserted island all by themselves for an entire year for $1,000,000.
6. For $10,000,000 most of us would do almost ANYTHING! Including abandoning our family and friends and our church. A very high percentage of us would, for that same amount of money, change our race or sex. And, 1 in every 14, would even murder someone for ten million bucks.What’s really strange about this is, the statistics remain the same whether it’s ten million dollars all the way down to three million. For three million bucks, most of us would do the same horrible things we would do for ten million. But, guess what? Few of us would do these things for a “measly” two million.
7. 92% of us would rather be rich than find the love of our lives.
8. Here’s a weighty one: Money (or the lack thereof) is the biggest stress inducer in the lives of Americans. We worry more about money than our marriages, our health, or even who’s going to win the Superbowl Game or come out on top in the latest Survivor TV show.
9. If you get your money out of a Hitachi ATM machine in Japan, it will be laundered. The way they do it is, they briefly press the bills between rollers at high enough temperatures to kill most bacteria.
10. Women have very fixed ideas on how much they are willing to spend on a bra. 38.3% of women won’t spend $30 for a bra. 28.4% won’t spend $50. 10% would pay as much as $75. And, only 3.5% would shell out $100. But, you know what? Almost 20% of women say they would pay almost anything for a bra. This is because they consider (and I guess so do a few men) that the contents of what those bras are encasing is of extremely high-value.
11. Nearly half of the people who sell their houses with furniture included will take all the light bulbs out of all the lamps when they vacate the premises.
12. Most people won’t bend over to pick up money lying on the sidewalk unless it’s at least a dollar.
13. Most Americans think pennies are a pain in the ass and the U.S. Mint should stop making them.
14. There is about 405 billion dollars in circulation. Only 32 million of that amount is counterfeit. That means, the percentage of counterfeit money in America is .0079%. And, $20 bills are more often counterfeited than $100 bills.
15. Do people care if their bills are crisp? Indeed, they do. Fresh, crisp, clean bills are considered much more valuable than those which are old, wrinkled and dirty.I once sent a ‘dollar bill thank you’ letter to a guy who sent a sincere letter back to me bitching the free $1 bill I sent him was wrinkled instead of crisp as I had described in the letter.
16. Let’s flip a coin and try to guess whether it will come up heads or tails. Three times as many people guess ‘heads’ than ‘tails’.
17. Here’s one I personally think really sucks: One out of every four Americans believe their best chance of getting rich is by playing the lottery.
18. How about this one for a shocking fact: 5% of lottery ticket buyers buy 51% of all tickets sold. (Trust me, none of these people belong to the “Einsteins of America Society”.)
19. A staggering 74% of us are influenced by how much we can win in a lottery as opposed to the odds of us winning.
20. That’s a good thing for the Government because the odds of winning a lottery jackpot are about 10 million to 1.
21. A person who drives 10 miles to buy a lottery ticket is 3 times more likely to be killed in a car accident while driving to buy the ticket… than… he is to win the jackpot.
22. Sunday newspaper coupon inserts are the second-most read section of the paper, after the front page.
23. Few people know it but, you can buy single-disease insurance.
24. Only 6% of people in America regularly buy clothes tailor made just for them.
25. Here’s one that’s really important: 63% of us decide NOT to buy a product advertised on the Internet… because… we think the shipping and handling charges add too much to the order.
26. Eight times as many Americans would rather use an ATM than deal with a real live teller.
27. This one’s going to blow your mind: 83% of Americans still pay with checks instead of credit cards!
28. Almost 30% of us say we would need 3 million smackaroos to feel rich. This ties in with the fact most of us would do anything for as little as $3 million… but… not nearly as many of us would do those identical things for a measly $2 million. (Hey, here’s your chance to take advantage of that situation. If you only want to pay $2 million to have something done, ask me if I’ll do it. The chances are, believe it or not, I WILL DO IT.)
29. Here’s another fact which is really, really important: 80% of Americans say giving personal information (especially their credit card information) over the Internet scares the living shit out of them.
30. Two-thirds of Americans say they wouldn’t let their spouse spend the night and have sex with another person for a million dollars. Many of these people are liars. There’s a big difference being asked if they would do it for a million dollars… as opposed to… handing them a paper sack containing the million fungolas and simply saying, “Here, you can have this if you’ll let me sleep with your sweetie tonight.”
31. The average wedding in America costs a staggering $20,000.00.
32. More than one-third of American women consider money more important than good sex to the success of a marriage.
33. According to Employee Benefits Research Institute 96% of all people who have jobs right now won’t be eligible for their full Social Security benefits when they reach age 65.
34. When it comes to houses, more than anything else, people want a state-of-the-art kitchen.
35. When people shop for a car, what they want more than anything else is reliability for the best possible price.
36. One of the best ways to raise money for a charity is to have a free dinner for a lot of people and have an empty envelope tucked under their plate… for the express purpose… of making whatever size donation they want.
37. People tip more on sunny days than they do on dreary days.
38. More than 80,000,000 people call the I.R.S. Information Hotline phone number every year. One-third of those calls go unanswered. And, according to the Treasury Department itself, 47% of the answers the ‘get-through’ callers receive are incorrect.
39. Almost two out of three people have modified their financial behavior because of their fears.
40. Almost three times as many people who live in the South worry about losing their jobs as compared to people who live in the Midwest.
41. Which would you rather do: Shop till you drop… or… have great sex?For men, this is a no-brainer.

However, more women would actually rather have an unlimited shopping spree than spend a weekend with a fabulous lover. In fact, the #1 favorite fantasy of women is to have a blank check to shop at their favorite store.

The favorite fantasy of men (at least in my opinion) is what we would like to DO to the sales girl… rather than… what we would like to buy from her.
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AJ Tagged Me!

My girl AJ of Over Analyze it has tagged me- aka "meme."

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What this means in laymens terms is...i have to pay this tag forward, but first I must provide information, more specifically I must divulge 7 facts to you,about me.
So without further ado here goes:

1. In conversation I will always find a way to segue to my blog and STRONGLY suggest they check it out and leave a comment.

2. When I was 11, I wanted to be the first black known gymnast.

3. As a child, I was PAINFULLY shy (you'd never know it today!)

4. Whenever I hear juicy or interesting news, I think IMMEDIATELY of my blog and hope I can provide "breaking news!"

5. I was raised as a Jehovah's Witness.

6. I've been a part of Weight Watchers 5 weeks and I've only lost 4lbs, but am losing major inches!

7. I'm walking as exercise with the ultimate goal being entering and completing a marathon!

The rules are:

A). Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog..

.B). Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself...

C). Tag 7 (or as many as you can) random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs...

D). Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

and

E). HAVE FUN! :)

I'm tagging:

AJ (I know she's been tagged but i'm new at blogging too)Over Analyze It

Lynn, my blog-mama HickTown Press

Mr. Ghetto Proverbs Ghetto Proverbs

Brian T. Clay Brian Clay