@reaux07 from howard university in washington, DC today representing BFP! FREE PALESTINE!

Designer & Dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley, c.1861 (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University Archives)

black shakespeare, howard university (1920s)

Saint Elmo Brady (1884-1966)

Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1884, Saint Elmo Brady became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in the field of chemistry when he completed his graduate studies at the University of Illinois in 1916. The eldest child of Thomas and Celesta Brady, Saint Elmo had two younger sisters, Fedora and Buszeder. Brady studied chemistry at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and earned his B.S. degree in 1908. After graduation he accepted a faculty position at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now known as Tuskegee University) and was mentored by George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington, President of Tuskegee. He began graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois in 1912, earning his M.S. degree in 1914 and completing his doctorate in 1916. As a graduate student at Illinois, Brady’s research focused on the characterization of organic acids. Brady eventually published three abstracts focused on his graduate work in Science, a prestigious peer-reviewed journal. After completing his doctorate, Brady returned to Tuskegee and continued teaching until 1920. He also served as chair and faculty of the Department of Chemistry at Howard University and Fisk University. Regarding his scholarly achievements, Brady continued collaborative work with the University of Illinois and established a faculty training program focusing on a technique known as infrared spectroscopy, which is used to identify various components in compounds. Moreover, he later published an article focused on the synthesis of a halogen compound with Dr. Samuel Massie, the first African American to join the faculty at the U.S. Naval Academy. Brady's work was important because there was significant interest in halogen compounds being used as insecticides at that time. Samuel Massie, who went on to work on the Manhattan Project in World War II, was one of several students that Brady mentored while teaching at Fisk University, thus encouraging African Americans to pursue careers in the chemical sciences. Although Brady officially retired from teaching in 1952, he took a position at Tougaloo College outside Jackson, Mississippi to help develop the chemistry department and recruit faculty. Brady married Myrtle Travers and they had two sons, Robert and St. Elmo Brady, Jr. who worked as a physician. St. Elmo Brady died on Christmas Day in 1966 Washington, D.C. He was 82

Toni Morrison at Howard University as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare’s “Richard III."

Victoria Monét via Instagram stories at Howard University Homecoming

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"Chad's nervous. This man is never nervous. He's like, "Is Denzel [Washington] coming [to the screening of BLACK PANTHER]? I was just texting with him and I said, "he's pulling up." He said, "A'ight, I got talk to him." I said, "Okay," and I texted Denzel and told him the spot, hoping he don't stand us up. I know he busy. "And, uh, Denzel comes in, in his Denzel way, "Hey, what's up? I'm gonna watch this movie and get out of here, see what ya'll boys doin'." "And Chad takes his hand. And says, "I wanted to thank you. I never told anyone about this. When I was at Howard [University], Phylicia [Rashad] reached out to a bunch of her friends and had them pay for students to go to Oxford for a year. I was the student you sponsored. The look on Denzel's face. I could tell he remembered but he was like, "Holy shit. That was you?" -- Ryan Coogler explains why meeting the Chadwick Boseman Scholars at a premiere of Wakanda Forever was a "full-circle" moment. (Boseman honoring Washington publicly.)

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TW: Anti-Black American rhetoric

So the ASA club at Howard University has been exposed for its former president and current members calling Black Americans, akatas.

I’ll reblog the rest of the information because tumblr only allows 10 photos, but how dare you come into our institutions and call us akatas. If you really feel that way about us, then take your akata hating self back to Nigeria(because from what I’ve researched the word akata is of Yoruba origin) and go be with your own people if you hate us being around us so much.

This type of behavior has been going on for over a decade in that organization and within Howard University.

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Victoria Monet Pulled Up To The Mecca Howard University For YardFest This Weekend. HU U KNOW