Baker Boy

The tipping bullies strike again, shaming people into giving them money. It is time to end tipping in the USA!

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) Audre Lorde was a lauded writer and poet known for her radical honesty and fight against racism and sexism. Self-described as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet," Lorde wrote often about the intersections of her identities. After earning both a BA from Hunter College and a masters from Columbia University, Lorde spent the 1960s working as a librarian in New York. In the 1970s she worked as a poet-in-residence at Tougaloo College in Mississippi and began publishing poetry collections. The works were informed by the intersections of race, class, and gender, and became increasingly more political. Some of her most famous works are "The Master's Tools Won't Dismantle The Master's House" and "Martha." Lorde passed away in 1992; her first full biography, Warrior Poet, was published by Alexis De Veaux in 2006.

You forgot to include big tech and entertainment.

Ann Lowe (1898-1981) Born in Clayton, Alabama, Ann Lowe is considered to be one of America's most influential clothing designers. She was taught to sew at an early age by her mother and grandmother—both skilled dressmakers who created clothing for wealthy white families around the state. Lowe quickly took to collecting fabric scraps, which she used to create flowers fashioned after the ones in her family's garden—patterns that later became a part of her signature designs. Her career took off after she accepted a position as an in-house gown maker in Florida, then completed design school in NYC. Lowe established a shop in Tampa, Florida, where she hired 18 seamstresses. In addition to designs that showed up in Vogue and at Academy Award shows, one of Lowe's most historical pieces of work was the wedding dress Jacqueline Bouvier wore when she married then-senator (later president) John F. Kennedy.

Baker for the win!

Link or lie? I guess it was a lie.

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895) Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United States. After attending the prestigious Massachusetts private schoolWest-Newton English and Classical School, she worked as a nurse for eight years and applied to medical school in 1860 at the New England Female Medical College (which later merged with Boston University). She was accepted and graduated four years later. Though little is known of her career, PBS reported that she worked as a physician for the Freedman’s Bureau for the State of Virginia. She later practiced in Boston's predominantly Black neighborhood at the time, Beacon Hill, and published A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts.

Then there is a link, why didn’t you post it? I have no desire to wade through six pages of crap to see if you are correct. Post the link!

Give me a break. This board is playing a collective game of Candyland.

For some reason, the board liberals are equating education with intelligence. Eduction today has turned into nothing more than indoctrination. The more education you have the more indoctrinated you are. What I don’t understand is why the liberals on this board are so excited to pay the student loans of others. I am wondering how much education I need before I can understand why we would pay off billions of dollars of student loans without even addressing the problem that’s caused it. This is more "rinse, spit, repeat" legislation by the Democrats. Next we will be paying off the massive credit card debt that people have been accumulating under Biden.

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Wow, a massive TDS attack over 1000 pair of sneakers. No one is going to wear these sneakers, it is the rarity value that people are going after. The original retail price of the now sold-out shoes on the GetTrumpSneakers.com website was $399, but one eBay seller flipped them on February 18 with an asking price of over 1,000 times that. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-sneakers-ebay-profits-1872111#:~:text=Donald Trump's golden sneakers are selling at hugely,site eBay apparently going for more than %24450%2C000.

Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) After being diagnosed with cervical cancer at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, a sample of Lacks's cancer cells were taken without her consent by a researcher. And though she succumbed to the disease at the age of 31 that same year, her cells would go on to advance medical research for years to come, as they had the unique ability to double every 20 to 24 hours. "They have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons, to study the human genome, to learn more about how viruses work, and played a crucial role in the development of the polio vaccine," Johns Hopkins said. In 2017, Oprah starred in and executive produced HBO's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, adapted from the book by Rebecca Skloot.

Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910[1] – November 26, 1985)[2] was an American laboratory supervisor who in the 1940s developed a procedure used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease).[3] He was the assistant to surgeon Alfred Blalock in Blalock's experimental animal laboratory at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and later at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Thomas was unique in that he did not have any professional education or experience in a research laboratory; however, he served as supervisor of the surgical laboratories at Johns Hopkins for 35 years. In 1976, Johns Hopkins awarded him an honorary doctorate and named him an Instructor of Surgery for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[3] Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher of operative techniques to many of the country's most prominent surgeons.

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. (1877-1970) Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., was the first Black general in the U.S. Army. He served for 50 years, beginning as a temporary first lieutenant during the Spanish American War. Throughout his service, Davis was a professor of military science at Tuskegee and Wilberforce University, commander of the 369th Infantry of the New York National Guard, and Special Assistant to the Commanding General, among other positions. He received the Bronze Star Medal and the Distinguished Service Medal and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Only 288 Chinese citizens deported from US in FY 23 despite 24,000 encounters at border as influx continues https://www.foxnews.com/us/only-288-chinese-citizens-deported-from-us-fy-23-despite-24000-encounters-border-influx-continues

Ella Baker (1903-1986) Baker was an essential activist during the civil rights movement. She was a field secretary and branch director for the NAACP and cofounded an organization that raised money to fight Jim Crow laws. Additionally, Baker was a key organizer for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. But what was perhaps her biggest contribution to the movement was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which prioritized nonviolent protest, assisted in organizing the 1961 Freedom Rides, and aided in registering Black voters. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rightsexists today to carry on her legacy.

Fox News marks eight consecutive years as most-watched cable network https://thedesk.net/news/fox-news-channel-highest-ratings-2023/#google_vignette

Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) Ailey was an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who earned global recognition for his impact on modern dance. After honing his technique at the Lester Horton Dance Theater—and acting as its director after Horton passed away—Ailey wished to choreograph his own ballets and works, which differed from the traditional pieces of the time. This inspired him to start the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958, a multiracial troupe that provided a platform for talented Black dancers and traveled around the world. His most popular piece, "Revelations," is an ode to the Southern Black Church. Ailey died of AIDS at 58, but his company lives on in New York City.

New docu-series exposes the 'cruel and unusual punishment' of housing trans prisoners with female inmates Independent Women's Forum is producing the series 'Cruel & Unusual Punishment: The Male Takeover of Women's Prisons' https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-docu-series-exposes-cruel-unusual-punishment-housing-trans-prisoners-female-inmates

Did you know that Measles can be caught in many places besides schools? Why is this happening now? What changed?

A measles outbreak at a Florida elementary school is the latest in a string of flare-ups in nearly a dozen states around the country. this is about illegals bringing the disease in, it has nothing to do with Florida’s surgeon general. living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

Reversing Donald Trump policy, Joe Biden will include undocumented immigrants in critical census count https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/20/undocumented-immigrants-census-count/

Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) The West African–born poet spent most of her life enslaved, working for John Wheatley and his wife as a servant in the mid-1700s. Despite never having received a formal education, Wheatley became the first African American to publish a book of poems, Poems on Various Subjects. However, she died before securing a publisher for her second volume of poetry and letters. You can see the monument erected for her at the Boston Women's Memorial. In early 2023, a University at Albany professor discovered a new Wheatley poem, “On the Death of Love Rotch,” that's now considered her first full-length elegy.