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Saturday, August 12, 2023

What Was America's First Black Town? Fort Moses and the Cuban Link

Cause and effect, i.e. enslave a man, he rises up and now there's a need for a militia to quail the up rising.   Just reading this brings up thoughts of today's 2nd Amendment cloaked in the auspicious pretense of freedom.


"Outraged by actions of the slaves at Stono, and fearful of more rebellions from slaves seeking to escape to Florida, the English countered with a siege of Florida between 1739 and 1740. They captured Fort Mose in 1740. As Landers reports, Captain Menendez and the Fort Mose militia allied with Native Americans to fight the invaders, culminating in a bloody battle in June 1740, in which Menendez and his forces attacked the British and killed 75 of their men. In the process, Fort Mose was destroyed.

Menendez would be captured and sold as a slave, but by 1759, he was free and once again in command at Mose, which had been reconstructed by the Spanish in 1752. By 1759, Mose consisted of 37 men, 15 women, seven boys and eight girls. In 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris, the Spanish were forced to abandon Florida but gained Cuba in return. In August, Menendez led 48 men, women and children on the schooner Nuestra Senora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows) and sailed to Cuba, where they settled in Regla, a town near the city of Havana. Fort Mose is now memorialized as a national historic landmark." 

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Friday, February 24, 2023

Hadiyah-Nicole Green, Ph.D. | Morehouse School of Medicine developed Revolutionary Cancern Treatment

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is a cancer treatment innovator, STEM pioneer.

She is one of the nation’s leading medical physicists and one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in Physics. Founded the Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation

“My goal is to change the way
cancer is treated.” -Dr. Green


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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Official List of HBCUs - Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Official List of HBCUs - Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Welcome to HBCUConnect.com, the largest website online for information and resources related to the country's 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities!

Here you will find a sortable list of all of the HBCUs in the country. Please Sign Up to receive scholarship, internship, and job alerts via email!

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Saturday, January 23, 2021

ABET Accredited HBCU Engineering Schools

ABET Accredited HBCU Engineering Schools

Every year, the U.S. News & World Report publishes a list of the top historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the nation. U.S. News is highly regarded as a publisher of college news, advice, and authoritative rankings, and they use a strict set of criteria to determine which colleges and universities will make their lists.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

African Americans: College Majors and Earnings - CEW Georgetown

African Americans: College Majors and Earnings - CEW Georgetown

African Americans: College Majors and Earnings - CEW Georgetowns

Earnings vary greatly among college majors. While college access has increased among African Americans, they are overrepresented in majors that lead to low-paying jobs. African Americans: College Majors and Earnings shows that African Americans, who represent 12 percent of the U.S. population, are underrepresented in the number of college majors associated with the fastest growing, highest-paying occupations.


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Thursday, November 05, 2020

Meet the First Black Woman to Receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester

Meet the First Black Woman to Receive a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Rochester

Dr. Monique Mendes has become the first Black woman to receive a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. The Jamaican-born, first-generation college graduate says the announcement came as a shock to her, not even realizing she had done so until informed.


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