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...people wouldn't just come in; they would go out into the community too. So on a cool day in March, she dispatched a regiment of role models to schools across Washington, including singers Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow, Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space. Michelle visited Anacostia High School, where violence is common and signs on the walls tell students which baby supplies will be available through the Baby Bonus Bucks Redemption Program. She sat with a group of 10 girls and three boys...
...Bottom line: hockey needs a transcendent African-American star, a Tiger Woods, to market the game to a black audience. "If you had somebody of that caliber who was African-American, then, yeah, I think that would break the barrier," says James Jemison, a black hockey fan from Atlanta. Iginla is great, but as a Canadian who grew up in hockey-mad Alberta, his backstory isn't that surprising...
...Baldomero M. Olivera, at a reception in Pforzheimer House this past Friday. The event kicked off the Foundation’s annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which took place on Saturday. Past Scientists of the Year have included Mae C. Jemison, the first black female astronaut, and Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher famous for training and encouraging Latinos in Los Angeles to take and pass the Advanced Placement Calculus exams. Olivera, a professor of biochemistry and neuroscience at the University of Utah, was born and raised in the Philippines, where...
...four-hour series, part one of which aired yesterday, chronicles the quests of Gates, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, actress Whoopi Goldberg, astronaut Mae Jemison, musician Quincy Jones, televangelist T.D. Jakes, neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and fellow Harvard professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot as they trace their family trees all the way back to Africa...
...prevent ailments are from the plant kingdom. And, by the way, organic flaxseeds are a rich vegetarian source of the healthy fat omega-3, without the possible contaminants from pollution that can be present in fish. Science is finally learning what vegetarians have known for years. STACEY I. JEMISON Lauderdale, Miss...