Scrapbook Time: Learning of a Few Things

04/10/2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/considering-our-history-can-white-people-go-to-hbcus/ar-AA1rFdLj?cvid=f056ad9a65794524a3ed8712122d9244&ei=62

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania became the first HBCU to open in 1837. Like its successors, Hampton, Howard and Spelman, these institutions were developed to provide access to higher education for Black students. Up until then, Black students were either excluded from the higher education experie...

18/07/2024

Wouldve thought a rabbit trail of finding out if San Antonio existed before Texas was Texas.. and when San Antonio was the largest city in Texas only turned into reading about one of the oldest retailers ...largest upscale department stores in the U.S. was in San Antonio, Joske's https://www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/JoskesBrothersStore.html

24/03/2024

Seven years ago, Evan LeRoy and Sawyer Lewis opened the LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue truck in Austin with the hope of opening a brick-and-mortar location as soon as possible.

23/03/2024

https://news.pvamu.edu/SignificanceRelevanceEminence/index.html

Story by Whitney Stovall | Layout by LeWebster Lacy | Graphics by Tyrell Irby When Prairie View A&M University was founded in 1876 as the Alta Vista Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas for Colored Youth, no one could have predicted that the University would one day become a top-producing so...

17/02/2024

An iconic artist who has graced Chicago with his artwork... found a place in Texas unique to any other location but having this pivotal master sculpturer contribute to a celebration of February, HBCUs, Black creativiy, and a culture imbued with art and setting standards, one of Black America's own.. Richard Hunt and the Centennial at Hobart...

Richard Hunt is one of America’s most renowned sculptors. He also so happened to be African American. This renowned sculptor died on December 16, 2023, at the age of 88. Known foremost for his abstract public sculptures, Hunt learned his craft at The Art Institute of Chicago.

14/02/2024

Congratulations on your work ladies... Historical Preservation .. one of the best things to happen with UT, Rice, TAMU CHC and PVAMU's CODE and Sociology programs.. LeGrande rehire for CODE's Historical Preservation certification program ...

Congrats to Waco’s Abigail Olmstead and Fort Bend’s Madilyn Synder for designing t-shirts for Texas History Day set for April 20 in Austin.

Texas History Day is sponsored by TSHA as a yearlong education program that culminates in an annual state-level history fair for students in grades four through twelve. More than 1,000 students each year create posters, original papers, performances, documentaries, individual interpretive websites, or three-dimensional exhibits.

For more info: https://shorturl.at/frUY6

24/10/2023

great video on PVAMU and its beginnings

This video details the history of PVAMU

24/10/2023

Straight outta Sri Lanka by of graduate school in Great Britain, and Hong Kong we find the incredible Mr. Aruna Weerasooriya with empowering work being done in the Agriculture, Food and Natural Resource space. Read how the award-earning efforts done by Dr. Weerasooriya set PV and its students on a strong trajectory for food resilience, agricultural discovery, or new life-impacting species. On the heels of building a number of new greenhouses, this Dr is here to pick up and paved much funding, much legacy, but new roads where others like the great Dr Cuero left off.

All the roads Aruna Weerasooriya, Ph.D., took on his career path led him to Prairie View A&M University College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources. A lifelong researcher, his desire to find new species and life in areas barely uncovered by others has inspired his unique and thoughtful appro...

11/09/2023

Any one not even born during the tragedy, never knew the Airline hassles we complain about were still in the planning stages nationwide and that in the history of flight, this was the first time a global travel way was halted throughout the world.. they don't even know baseball's season now ends nearly in November, football superbowl practically shifted to february and basketball even ends later post COVID after ALL games were halted for weeks after 9/11. Aaliyah had just died weeks before and many were still thrown off by her demise only to have this surreal event hit our televisions, and radios and put us even further in a state of shock. We remember the public servants--the firefighters, EMTs, police, ATF, national guard, and other men and women of the first responders-- who ran into the towers at the call of duty only to perish with victims inside and outside in the streets... the respect we pay to families, NY, and our nation who put aside their masks to reveal a humanity willing to help each other.. yeah, let's honor the fallen and embrace that part! 🔔