NYT & USA Today Author of Contemporary Romance/Mainstream Fiction. @CMichelleRay her daughter will post on her behalf.
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Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement
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If you encounter ClaimsHero, I suggest you ignore them.
by Jane Friedman
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Martha Jones Becomes the First Black Woman to Receive a US Patent on May 5, 1868 for Improvement in corn-husker, sheller.
It’s not clear whether she had predecessors who weren’t properly acknowledged. “It is unknown whether other Black women before her were blocked from claiming
credit for their inventions since enslaved people and free Blacks could not be citizens of the United States under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1857 Dred Scott decision,” per History. Learn about other early American patent holders. history.com/this-day-in-hist…
Every Apple Holds a Story
Aunt Cora was born into slavery and later became a midwife for Black and white women. How did two #apple varieties come to be named after her?
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But if Brad discovers the shared past that only Michelle remembers, will it tear them apart forever?
Someone To Love Me BY @Francis_Ray
#bookcover #RomanceBooks #book #paperback
Britain's first black ballerina has shoes restored.
Julie Felix, 67, became a star in the US after she said she was excluded from a ballet company in London in the 1970s because of racism.
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Airline attendants, postal workers & many transit workers have federal protections that provide clear consequences for #assault. Nurses — the ppl keeping patients alive — do not.
Please stand w/ #nurses & demand real protection for our #healthcare workers.
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Unboxed: Magician Nicole Cardoza gives 'Black Girl Magic' a new meaning.
Contrary to popular belief, Blk ppl have been practicing magic for centuries. One of Cardoza’s favorite historical inspirations is Ellen E. Armstrong, the first Blk woman to tour her own magic show in the
Barber-Scotia College, a historic women's institution in Concord, North Carolina, has launched an innovative grassroots fundraising campaign asking 144,000 women to donate $1.44 each to support the institution's efforts to remain operational. #HBCU
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Barber-Scotia College, “the first historically black female institution of higher education established after the American Civil War,” is in serious financial duress.
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Victor Glover Will Become First Black Astronaut To Fly To The Moon
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The Hairdresser Who Secretly Used Her Beauty Salon For Black Political Good.
Bernice Robinson, closed her shop for the night, she rarely left and went straight home. Her salon became an underground school. The lesson plan? Voter education.
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According to Tiffany Gill, author of "Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry,” Robinson created a secret space to prepare women secretly for voter registration literacy tests. Since Blk women owned their salons, they could create a safe