Worrying about your festive BMI? You may not need to

Wakanda News Details

Worrying about your festive BMI? You may not need to

The measure is saddled with scientific and historical baggage — and may not be that useful anyway

Source: Financial Times

You may also like

Walter Payton was an American footballer who played for the Chicago Bears. He was born in Columbia, Mississippi on July 25, 1953 to Peter and Alyne Payton. He had two siblings and was a member of the Boy Scouts, Little League, and the local church. He also played in the marching band at his high

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Jan

10

1988

Around three thousand soldiers and police officers moved into Rocinha, one of the largest slums in Rio de Janeiro, on November 13, 2011. It was part of an operation by the government to gain control over troubled areas in the city before the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2014 World Cup. The

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Nov

13

2011

But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Mar

10

1998

Ossian Sweet, prominent Detroit doctor, arrested on murder charges after shots were fired into a mob in front of the Sweet home in a previously all-white area. Sweet was defended by Clarence Darrow, who won an acquittal in the second trial.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Sep

8

1925

A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives

A Black scientist helped save thousands of lives during World War II. Dr. Charles Richard Drew set up and ran the pioneer blood plasma bank in Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. This bank served as one of the models for the system of banks operated later by the American Red Cross. On October

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Oct

1

1940

In 2006, former president Taylor, in exile in Nigeria, was turned over to an international court in The Hague to face trial on charges of crimes against humanity for supporting rebel troops in Sierra Leones brutal civil war that claimed the lives of about 300,000 people in the 1990s. The rebels

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Remond, Charles Lenox (1810-1873)

Charles Lenox Remond was born into an elite free Black family in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents, John and Nancy Lenox Remond, had been married by the Rev. Thomas Paul, a prominent African American minister and anti-slavery activist, in 1807. Nancy Lenox’s father was a veteran of the American

fave

Source: Black Past

Casket Lowering Device Invented

A. C. Richardson, a black inventor, invented the casket lowering device, patent#529,311

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Nov

13

1894

Hotesse, Esteban (1919-1945)

Esteban Hotesse was the only Dominican-born member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, as well as one of the few people born in a Spanish-speaking nation to serve the United Stated during World War II. Hotesse was born on February 11, 1919, in the town of Moca, Dominican Republic. On November 1, 1923, at

fave

Source: Black Past

Rwandan Genocide (1994)

Beginning on April 7, 1994 and lasting until mid-July of the same year, the Rwandan Genocide was the government-mandated killing of Tutsis and Hutu political moderates. Having commenced in the capital city of Kigali, the violence spread rapidly throughout the Rwandan countryside where, in less

fave

Source: Black Past

Dred Scott Case

Dred Scott and his wife Harriet filed suit against Irene Emerson for their freedom. The Dred Scott case was first brought to trial in 1847 in the first floor, west wing courtroom of St. Louis Courthouse. A black slave from Missouri who claimed his freedom on the basis of seven years of residence in

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

6

1846

Jackson, Michael Joseph

Jackson, Michael Joseph, 1958–2009, American performer, b. Gary, Ind. Jackson was an extremely successful pop singer, superb dancer, and talented composer who often conveyed an androgynous image and ambiguous sexuality. Offstage, he became known for various alleged eccentricities, for his sharp

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Two months away from the 25th anniversary of the Civil Rights march on Selma, Al

Two months away from the 25th anniversary of the Civil Rights march on Selma, Alabama, 1,500 African American students boycott classes to express concern over the dismissal of Norward Rousell, the citys first African American superintendent.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

4

1990

Garrett Morgan is one of those rare people who are able to come up with an extraordinary inventions which have a tremendous impact on society – and then follows that up with even

fave

Source: Black History Resources

In 2001 Combs announced that he was changing his nickname from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy, earning him comparisons to fellow name-changing musician Prince… His romance with singer/actress Jennifer Lopez was closely followed in gossip columns; the two broke up in 2001. That same year Combs went on trial

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Pernell Whitaker

Pernell Whitaker is a retired professional boxer and former world champion. He was born on January 2, 1964 and started his boxing career at the age of 9. During his amateur days he had 214 fights, of which he won 201. Roughly a little less than half of these victories were by knockout. In the final

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Jan

2

1964

Joe Louis retired as heavyweight boxing after

Joe Louis retired as heavyweight boxing after holding the title for a record eleven years and eight months.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Mar

1

1949

Operations Moses, Joshua, and Solomon (1984-1991)

In three covert military operations, called Moses, Joshua, and Solomon, over twenty thousand Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel to escape hardship. This ancient community, called Beta Israel (House of Israel in English), lived in relative isolation from the rest of the Jewish world for

fave

Source: Black Past

The frequency of ethnic clashes increased, developing into a low-intensity civil war. A six-nation regional proposal to send troops into Burundi to maintain peace and order was devised in July 1996. Distrustful of the scheme, the Tutsi-dominated army led a coup deposing the Hutu president and

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Wilson, Harriet E. Adams (c. 1828-?)

Author Harriet E. Wilson is believed to be the first African American woman to publish a novel in the United States. Her fictional autobiography Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North. Showing that Slavery’s Shadows Fall Even There was printed in 1859

fave

Source: Black Past

(1863) Frederick Douglass, Men of Color, To Arms!

? For the first two years of the Civil War black and white abolitionists urged both the liberation of the slaves and the recruitment of African American men in defense of the Union. Barely three months after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Frederick Douglass gave a speech in R

fave

Source: Black Past

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the

The shoe-lasting machine invented by Jan Matzeliger not only revolutionized the shoe industry but also made Lynn, Massachusetts, the shoe capital of the

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Mar

19

1883

Manute Bol was one of the tallest players in NBA history and a political activist in Africa. He was born in Sudan in 1962 in the Dinka tribe. He lived in Sudan for most of his childhood and teenage years. He tended cattle for his family as a young boy and there is a popular story that he often used

fave

Source: Black History Resources

The First Black Psychic

Shirley Ajayi was the first African American given a part on a television show as a psychic! The show lasted for about one year[actually six months] in Chicago, Illinois since the show was seasonal! Shirley started her career the minute her predictions came true! She was renamed Aura and hired to

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Mar

27

2002

Love, Mia (1975 - )

Congresswoman Mia Love represents Utahs 4th Congressional District and is the first black Republican woman and the first Haitian-American elected to the United States Congress. She is also the first black person elected to Congress in

fave

Source: Black Past

Dec

6

1975

H. Grenon patents razor stropping device

Grenon, H. Razor Stropping Device Feb. 18, 1896 Patent No. 554,867

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Feb

18

1896

Anthony, Susan Brownell

Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass. daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Waldon, Alton Ronald, Jr. (1936–)

Alton Ronald Waldon Jr. was the first African American Congressman elected from Queens, New York. Waldon was born in Lakeland, Florida on December 21, 1936. He attended Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York and after graduation in 1954 joined the United States Army. Discharged in 1959 Waldon

fave

Source: Black Past

Although the name Elijah McCoy may be unknown to most people,the enormity of his ingenuity and the quality of his inventions have created a level of distinction which bears his

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Mar

23

2012

Black Woman Convicted of Witchcraft

In Salem, Massachusetts, Mary Black, a slave, was convicted of sorcery and jailed after a trial.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Apr

22

1692

More from Financial Times

From dandies to cruising, Art Basel talks probe life in Paris today

Dandy Wellington: ‘Hats are the ultimate form of self-expression’

Memo to Dems: sanctimony won’t save the republic

FT Live subscriber webinar on the US midterms

The Design Miami fair is maximalist, colourful — and provocative

Lawyers use pro bono hours to step up fight for racial justice

US bank branch closures widen social inequality | FT Film

In search of James Baldwin’s lost house | Financial Times

Detroit is sprucing itself up | Financial Times

The overlooked genius behind the Black is Beautiful campaign

On the trail of the Underground Railroad

‘People move to Harlem and stay in Harlem’

From the art market to creative fungi: panels at Art Basel Miami Beach

Designer Samuel Ross: ‘I love that red-hot line between sculpture and furniture’

The queens of NYC philanthropy

‘They’ve written him off’: can Joe Biden beat Donald Trump again?

American politics is undergoing a racial realignment

Trump donors warm to Marco Rubio as running mate

Keeping it reel: a look behind London’s independent cinema scene

‘They gave me $40 and a bus ticket’ — founder of platform helping former prison inmates

When We See Us, Basel review — a compelling century of Black figurative painting

Barack Obama says Black men’s support for Trump is ‘not acceptable’

How Kamala Harris makes power dressing modern

Preserving history: WeGoja Foundation provides tools

Is Kamala Harris losing support among Black men?

The life and tastes of Anthony Scaramucci

The Barn — Emmett Till, the boy whose murder still haunts America

Can One Hundred Years of Solitude capture magical realism’s spark?

FT Person of the Year: Donald Trump

The best 2024 albums to listen to over Christmas

The volunteers delivering life-saving mental health support

Former Citigroup chair Richard Parsons dies

The age of de-extinction: should we bring back the woolly mammoth?

Can Trump handle the new Republican factions?

Trump’s 2025 inauguration: the President’s speech in full

Why Noah Davis is the greatest American figurative painter of his generation

An elaborate Pasadena house by trailblazing architect Paul R Williams

Columbia University cedes to Donald Trump’s demands with series of reforms

The nine lives of Pete Hegseth

Six shows to see in New York during Frieze Week

Business Facts

Blackfacts BETA RELEASE 11.5.3
(Production Environment)