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Blog Archive

Mon, 14.07.2025

Treasured career moments in mental health, Sylvia Drew-Ivie

Sylvia Drew-Ivie is an activist, lawyer, and mental health advocate. In this segment, she shares two episodes in her career that she is fond of.

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Sat, 05.07.2025

Evelyn Mase, Nurse born

*Evelyn Mase was born on May 18, 1922. She was a Black African nurse. Evelyn Ntoko Mase was born in Engcobo, Transkei, South Africa. Her father was a mineworker, and her mother was his second wife; they had six children, three of whom died in infancy. Mase’s father died when she was still a child. […]

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Sat, 28.06.2025

Nthato Harrison Motlana, Physician and Activist born.

*Dr. Nthato Harrison Motlana was born on this date in 1925. He was a Black South African businessman, physician, and anti-apartheid activist. He was born in Marapane, near Pretoria, South Africa. He attended Kilnerton High School in Pretoria and the University of Fort Hare, where he obtained a B.Sc. degree. He also took medicine at […]

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Thu, 19.06.2025

Pattie Carter, Nurse and Administrator born.

*The birth of Pattie Carter is celebrated on this date in 1875. She was a Black nurse and administrator. She was the daughter of Hawkins W. Carter, who served Warren County as a representative and state senator during the Reconstruction era. She obtained her education from Shaw University, St. Agnes Hospital, and Lincoln Hospital in […]

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Wed, 11.06.2025

Miles V. Lynk, Physician and Author born.

*Miles V. Lynk was born on this date in 1871. He was a Black physician, author, and activist for science, specifically for medical doctors. Miles Vandahurst Lynk was born near Brownsville, Tennessee. He was named after two bishops, William Henry Miles and Richard H. Vandahurst, of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Jackson, Tennessee. Lynk […]

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Sun, 18.05.2025

Abbie Voorhies, Military Nurse and Officer born

*Abbie Voorhies was born on this date in 1915. She was a Black nurse and military officer. Abbie Edith Voorhies was born in Louisiana and graduated from Kansas City General Hospital Nursing School in Missouri. Her first job was with Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. She said she joined the military after hearing that […]

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Thu, 01.05.2025

Jessie G. Garnett, Dentist born

*Jessie G. Garnett was born on this date in 1897. She was a Black Canadian dentist and activist. She was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Her mother was a seamstress, and her father died when she was a child. At eleven, she moved to the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston with her mother, two older sisters, […]

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Sun, 20.04.2025

Edwin Howard, Doctor and Administrator born.

*Edwin Howard was born on this date in 1846. He was a Black doctor and medical administrator.  Born in Boston, MA., Edwin C.J.T. Howard’s parents were Edwin Howard and Joanna Turpin. He was the brother of educator Joan Imogen Howard. He attended Boston Latin School from 1861 to 1865. He studied at Liberia College in […]

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Wed, 26.02.2025

Raymond Cannon, Pharmacist and Lawyer born.

*Raymond Cannon was born on January 28, 1892. He was a Black pharmacist and lawyer. Raymond Winfield Cannon was from Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota. He was the youngest of three sons of Mack Oliver Cannon and Mattie Belle Boone. By 1900, the family lived in Minneapolis, where Cannon was a 1912 Minneapolis Central High School […]

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Thu, 06.02.2025

Harold Moody, Physician and Activist born.

*Harold Moody was born on October 8, 1882. He was an Afro Caribbean physician and activist. Harold Arundel Moody was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and Moody was the son of pharmacist Charles Ernest Moody and his wife Christina Emmeline Ellis. He completed his secondary education at Wolmer’s Schools. In 1904, he sailed to the United […]

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New Poem Each Day

Poetry Corner

When Willie Mae went down to the barber shop to visit her boyfriend who cut hair there I went with her. Walking beside her on the street the men said... CHOOSING THE BLUES (for S. Brandi Barnes) by Angela Jackson.
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