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Diaspora, 15 February 2012

Dr. Kim Michelle Lewis

Dr. Lewis is an National Science Foundation grant winner ($575,000) to advance electronics used in medicine and toxic sensing technology (important in a post 9-11 world). She graduated from Dillard University, and holds a summer research camp open to HBCU science and engineering majors hoping to learn and advance in the field.

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She gave us a reason to love ourselves,

Emerging in the 80s post-Civil Rights, post-loss of

Medgar, Malcolm and Martin, if Michael was the “King of Pop”…

She was definitely “Our Queen.”

 

What 1980 male college freshman

Didn’t calculate that we were just

One year older than the voice that

Belted from her lithe frame, fantasize

“What we’d do” with 5 minutes of our

Best Mack if we had a chance

(Past her Bodyguard) to step to her,

As if she was “saving all her love for []”…

 

Her faux feud with Maria Cary set the

Diva pattern for Rihanna, Beyoncé, Jennifer, Latifah and Eve…

Yet, didn’t we laugh (instead of pray)

When she married Bobby, and starred in a

So-called “reality” show, showcasing her

Private demons for public display?

 

Post-Bobby, with the baby (Bobby-Christina),

She could never hit “the notes” she used to,

Her interviews shaken versions of

Her star’s former hue.

 

The human voice has depth and range

That cannot be enhanced or explained

In a digital software mix program or

Corporate studio...

 

Some things of exquisite beauty are

Born in choir robes, Sunday solos and

Christmas shows,

Before the Clive Davis’ discover angels,

Among us,

When NAPHESH kicked first breath

In Eden

And Deity pronounced self-awareness

To a creation with mind, will, imagination,

Emotion and intellect – defining the

Earthiness that we would call…soul…

 

The best of Adam’s rib performs now…celestial shows.

Whitney Houston, 1963 – 2012

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Diaspora, 11 February 2012

Born on November 23, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. entered the University of Chicago to study mathematics at the age of 13. He received his B.S. degree as a Phi Beta Kappa graduate in 1940 at the age of 16, his M.S. degree in 1941 at the age of 17, and his Ph.D. degree in December 1942 at the age of 19. In 1942 he was also a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study. This was the beginning of one of the most exemplary careers of scholarship and application of an American mathematician/physicist/engineer in the 20th century.

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Diaspora, 9 February 2012

"Education was the secular god of the black community"(a quote I remember, but have no sources for it).

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." Carter G. Woodson

Dr. Ronald E. McNair

 

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