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Black History Month – Georgia Infirmary

Black History Month

The Georgia Infirmary was the first hospital for African Americans built in the United States. Chartered on December 24, 1832 “for the relief and protection of aged and afflicted Africans,” it was established by the Georgia General Assembly and funded by a $10,000 grant from the estate of Thomas F. Williams, a local merchant and […]

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Black History Month – Ella Josephine Baker

Black History Month

Ella Josephine Baker was born 1903 in Norfolk, VA but reared in Littleton, North Carolina. In 1927 she graduated from Shaw University as valedictorian. In the early 1930s, in one of her first efforts at implementing social improvement, she helped organize the Young Negroes Cooperative League, which was created to form cooperative groups that would pool community […]

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Black History Month – William Augustus Hinton

Black History Month

William Augustus Hinton was born 1883 in Chicago. He was the youngest student to ever graduate from Kansas City High School. After high school, he studied at the University of Kansas, completing the three-year premed program in two years. Hinton continued undergraduate studies at Harvard, receiving a bachelor’s degree there in 1905. In 1909, he […]

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Black History Month – Ruth Ella Moore

Black History Month

Ruth Ella Moore was born 1903 in Ohio. Her mother was a successful artist and seamstress, and she taught Ruth how to sew (she would become known for her beautiful, hand-made garments), but also to put her education first and pursue higher education. And young Ruth did – earning her Bachelor’s in Science degree in […]

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Alzheimer’s Disease May Develop Differently In African-Americans, Study Suggests

Alzheimer's in the News, Press

Scientists have found a biological clue that could help explain why African-Americans appear to be more vulnerable than white Americans to Alzheimer’s disease. A study of 1,255 people, both black and white, found that cerebrospinal fluid from African-Americans tended to contain lower levels of a substance associated with Alzheimer’s, researchers report Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology. Read […]

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