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Piper Kelly and Samuel Watson won the speed climbing events at the Pan American Games to become the third and fourth American climbers to clinch a 2024 Olympic spot. Kelly, a 24-year-old from Indianapolis, earned her spot when she beat 17-year-old countrywoman Sophia Curcio in Saturday’s semifinals in Santiago, Chile. In each climbing event at […]
The lynching of Samuel J. Bush in Decatur, Illinois, 130 years ago, is being remembered by family members and local activists who want to continue telling his story. Vernon Wimbley, the great-great nephew of Bush, and Decatur activist groups Affordable Activism and Walk It Like We Talk It, said they pushed the city for years […]
CNN — At first glance, you may think you recognize some of these iconic photographs. The poses, clothing, and framing seem familiar, but look again. These faces aren’t from history books – they are self-portraits of renowned photographer Samuel Fosso, and they have earned him this year’s Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Founded by The […]
In February, 2014, in the war-torn Central African Republic, Christian fighters were rampaging through a predominantly Muslim district in the capital, Bangui. The renowned Cameroonian-born portrait photographer Samuel Fosso had already fled. While looters stripped the corrugated iron roof off Fosso’s vacated studio, three men tried to save his abandoned archive.
Recognizing the 50-year commemoration of National Vietnam War Veterans Day (March 29), US Black Engineer magazine remembers 1992 Black Engineer – Entrepreneur Award winner Samuel Metters (1934-2021). Click here to watch the “Dr. Samuel Metters Celebration of Life” service at Shiloh Baptist Church on October 19, 2021. Metters spent 20 years in the military before […]
The Office of Research and Engagement has announced the 2023-24 Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Awardees. The Conti Fellowship acknowledges the high quality and importance of a faculty member’s accomplishments in research and creative activity at UMass Amherst and their potential for continuing excellence, particularly with respect to the project that they propose to undertake […]
Born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Liberia, Samuel Ford McGill was the first Black person to graduate from an American medical school. Studious and eager, McGill embraced the study of medicine and in 1839 he received an MD degree with honors from Dartmouth’s then medical department. He achieved this at a time when people […]
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