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Top 20 Quotations To Celebrate Black History Month
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Top 20 Quotations To Celebrate Black History Month

"I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me." -- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975) "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise." -- Maya Angelou "Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978) "Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can." -- Arthur Ashe quoted in Sports Illustrated "Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. " -- Ray Charles "The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now. " -- Bill Cosby "There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to the...
In Your Life Or Your Community Who Has Made Black History?
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In Your Life Or Your Community Who Has Made Black History?

Every February, Black History Month serves as not only a time to discuss the hardships and marginalization experienced by Black people in the United States, but also a time to celebrate the contributions of Black people that have played an integral role in shaping the country. We may learn about Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Ruby Bridges and other history makers, but we rarely have an opportunity to bring attention to stories of family, friends and neighbors who make a difference every day. We are also living through a time when lessons about race and Black history are facing intense scrutiny and restriction in schools. The 19th staff does its best to tell stories about Black people who are trailblazing and working to make our society more equitable. Now, we want to hear from you about t...
5 Essential Reads – A Black History Primer On African Americans’ Fight For Equality
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5 Essential Reads – A Black History Primer On African Americans’ Fight For Equality

As the father of Black history, Carter G. Woodson had a simple goal – to legitimize the study of African American history and culture. To that end, in 1912, shortly after becoming the second African American after W.E.B. Du Bois to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard, Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915. More than 100 years later, Woodson’s goal and his work detailing the struggle of Black Americans to obtain full citizenship after centuries of systemic racism is still relevant today. As dozens of GOP-controlled state legislatures across the U.S. have either considered or enacted laws restricting how race is taught in public schools, The Conversation U.S. has published numerous stories over the years exploring the rich terrain of Black history – and the n...
A Black History Month Tribute: Paul Robeson – American Singer, Actor And Civil Rights Activist Became A Hero In China
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A Black History Month Tribute: Paul Robeson – American Singer, Actor And Civil Rights Activist Became A Hero In China

Chinese broadcasters have aired shows featuring Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and a well-known civil rights activist, several times in recent years. China National Radio and various channels of the widely influential China Central TV showcased Robeson on programs in 2021, 2012 and 2009 narrating China’s resistence to foreign military aggressions. This could seem like unusually frequent coverage related to an American who passed away decades ago. My book, Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century, unpacks the little-known yet important relationship between Paul Robeson and China, which continues to resonate powerfully today. New York City meeting Robeson is long re...
A Black History Month Tribute: Lorraine Hansberry, The First Major Black Theatrical Voice To Emerge From America
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A Black History Month Tribute: Lorraine Hansberry, The First Major Black Theatrical Voice To Emerge From America

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry born May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois as the youngest of four children of a prominent real estate broker Carl Augustus Hansberry and Nannie Louise Perry grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood.in a middle-class family.. The roots of her artistic vision and activism are here in Chicago. Born into a family of substantial means and parents who were intellectuals and activists, her father, Carl Augustus Hansberry, Sr. from Gloucester, Mississippi, moved to Chicago after attending Alcorn College, and became known as the "kitchenette king" after subdividing large homes vacated by whites moving to the suburbs and selling these small apartments or kitchenettes to African American migrants from the South. Carl was not only a successful real est...
A Growing Health Risk — Long-Term Exposure To LA Wildfire Smoke
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A Growing Health Risk — Long-Term Exposure To LA Wildfire Smoke

LA fires: Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health risk, and not well understood. Millions of people across the Los Angeles area are being exposed to wildfire smoke as fires burn through homes and vehicles. The fires in January 2025 have burned thousands of structures, along with the building materials, furniture, paints, plastics and electronics inside them. When materials like these burn, they can release toxic chemicals with the potential to harm people breathing the air downwind. A 2023 study of smoke from fires in the wildland-urban interface – areas where urban neighborhoods bleed into the wildlands – found it contained a vast array of chemicals harmful to humans. They include hydrogen chloride, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, dioxins and a range of toxic organ...
How Startup DeepSeek Changed The Calculus
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How Startup DeepSeek Changed The Calculus

Why building big AIs costs billions – and how Chinese startup DeepSeek dramatically changed the calculus. State-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude have captured the public imagination by producing fluent text in multiple languages in response to user prompts. Those companies have also captured headlines with the huge sums they’ve invested to build ever more powerful models. An AI startup from China, DeepSeek, has upset expectations about how much money is needed to build the latest and greatest AIs. In the process, they’ve cast doubt on the billions of dollars of investment by the big AI players. I study machine learning. DeepSeek’s disruptive debut comes down not to any stunning technological breakthrough but to a ...
Remaking The Map Of American Inequality
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Remaking The Map Of American Inequality

Soaring wealth inequality has remade the map of American prosperity. One need only glance at headlines about Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and other super-wealthy individuals to understand that wealth in America is increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Inequality is sharply on the rise. Until now, however, little has been known about where the richest households are located, which cities are the most unequal and how these trends have evolved. In a new analysis I conducted with my colleagues, we reveal where wealth is most concentrated within and between communities, cities and states. The result is GEOWEALTH-US – the first data that tracks the geography of wealth in the United States and how it has changed since 1960. The overall picture is worrying. The wealthiest cities in th...
Workplaces Need To ‘Man Up’ Says Mark Zuckerberg
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Workplaces Need To ‘Man Up’ Says Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg thinks workplaces need to ‘man up’ − here’s why that’s bad for all employees, no matter their gender. When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a Jan. 10, 2025, episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” he lamented that corporate culture had become too “feminine,” suppressing its “masculine energy” and abandoning supposedly valuable traits such as aggression. The workplace, he concluded, has been “neutered.” Perhaps not surprisingly, Zuckerberg has also embraced stereotypically masculine pursuits in his personal life. He’s become a mixed martial arts aficionado and has shared his affinity for smoking meats. On his expansive Hawaii compound, he’s even taken up bow-and-arrow pig hunting. He’s come a long way from the geeky image of his youth. But is Zuckerberg right? Do w...
The New Cash Grab — Trump’s Meme Coin
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The New Cash Grab — Trump’s Meme Coin

Why Trump’s meme coin is a cash grab. Three days before his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump launched a meme coin, a type of cryptocurrency whose value is buoyed by social media and internet culture, rather than any sort of functionality or intrinsic value. The coin – officially called $Trump – briefly ascended into the top 15 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and attracted over a half-million buyers. Referencing the coin in a news conference on Jan. 21, 2025, a reporter asked Trump if he intended to continue selling products that benefited him personally while being president. “You made a lot of money [on $Trump], sir,” he told Trump, who seemed oblivious to its meteoric rise in value. “How much?” Trump asked. “Several billion dollars, it seems like, in the last cou...