Blexit/Blaxit

Blexit is a term created by portmanteau of “black” and “exit,” Blaxit, a social movement advocating for the repatriation of Black Americans from the US and Europe to Africa.

Beyond the Gates

Beyond the Gates in 2025 was the first soap opera to feature a Black majority cast.

Do you practice religion? Yes, in the form of spirituality and through a center of spiritual living aka Religious Science or Science of Mind. Vastly different from how I practiced when I grew up.

Dorothy Jean Tillman

Dorothy Jean Tillman of Chicago , 17 in 2025 became the youngest person in the world to achieve a PhD in the field of ‘Integrated Behavioural Health’.

Life before the internet

Do you remember life before the internet? Yes, I remember in 1994 (of course I had to look it up on the internet) when I got my first email address and didn’t know how to access it and also no one I knew had an email address. I was working as a professor in a […]

Koyo Kouoh

Curator Koyo Kouoh, 1967- 2025, the first African woman tapped to helm the Venice Biennale. Her home institution, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), in Cape Town, South Africa, where she was executive director and chief curator

What are you good at? Storytelling. First show 5/27/2025 streaming at https://themarsh.org/shows_and_events/tellitontuesday/tell-it-on-tuesday-at-the-marsh/

Sydney Barber

Sydney Barber the first black woman to head students at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis born 1935. One of the first global superstars to come out publicly

I collect Wheaties

Do you have any collections? I collect Wheaties, one cent coins from 1909 to 1959 with two stalks of wheat on them.

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