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The Owls Club was a Black women's softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women's Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick's Stadium which went on to become the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe's.

The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the Championship again in 1939. Left handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out 12 batters on the Manette team in the Championship game at the Civic Field which went on to become the site of Memorial Stadium.



Info from The Historical Negro League Baseball Site, Seattle Vintage, and Passion Softball.

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Dunbar High School, Washington, D.C., 1930s. Black excellence.

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https://thecincinnatiherald.com/2024/08/01/black-farmers-compensation-victory/?

Black farmers begin receiving payments from $2.2 billion program - The Cincinnati Herald Black farmers receive $2.2 billion in compensation for racial discrimination in USDA's farm lending practices. A historic victory after decades of struggle.

U.S. Patent No. 4,744,360
Inducted in 2022
Born Nov. 4, 1942 - Died May 30, 2019
Dr. Patricia Bath invented laserphaco, a new device and technique to remove cataracts

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Patricia Bath | The National Inventors Hall of Fame Dr. Patricia Bath invented laserphaco, a new device and technique to remove cataracts. It performed all steps of cataract removal: making the incision, destroying the lens and vacuuming out the fractured pieces. Bath is recognized as the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent.

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10 Black History Tours and Experiences in New Orleans To uncover the richness of New Orleans through the city’s most exquisite treasure—her people.

This South Carolina sweetgrass basket maker is sharing the art with future generations. Read her story: bit.ly/3WMrKfy

Sickening. “Buddin Out”? What kind of pe******ia advertising going on here??

“Can work in the heat all day long. “ Those of us that have been doing genealogy have seen many of these ads and they never cease to horrify.

Scholars are uncovering the important role of the Black women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance where they built collections and communities of writers and readers. https://nyti.ms/4esS58S

Take a picture, it’ll last longer!

While you’re in a park, take great pictures and protect the things you come to enjoy, as well as yourself and other photographers, by following these simple rules:

📸 Oh, snap! Zoom with your lens, not your feet.

📸 Stay on designated trails and walkways.

📸 Park in roadside pullouts to snap a pic.

📸 Felt cute, might be in pain later. Selfie goals should not include 2500 pound wild animals.

Learn more photography tips at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/photography

Image: A trail sign that reads, “Take nothing but pictures…leave nothing but footprints” at Tuzigoot National Monument, AZ.

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Barry Farm: Community, Land & Justice in Washington, DC | PBS Barry Farm is a story of DC. and the cycles of placement and displacement in the US.

Frederick McKinley Jones: From Self-Taught Engineer to “King of Cool” The Black inventor is best known for creating portable refrigeration equipment used to transport food, blood, and medicine during World War II.

Remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice . Memorial Day , May 27, 2024.
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Memorial Day: A Commemoration Memorial Day, initially referred to as Decoration Day, was observed by many communities after the Civil War, when the nation suffered more than 620,000 military deaths, roughly 2 percent of the total population at the time. John A. Logan, the Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of Republic, chose M...

Remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice . Memorial Day , May 27, 2024.

Memorial Day 2024: Facts, Meaning & Traditions | HISTORY Originally known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day started in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971 to honor those who served and died in wars.

Memorial Day. Remembering those who made the ultimate sacrifice .

After Action | Gold Star Service | Season 2 | Episode 4 | PBS Host Stacy Pearsall sits down with three veterans who are Gold Star survivors.

Opportunity for public input!

Today, the National Park Service opened a 45-day public comment period on a draft study evaluating an eleven-mile stretch of eastern Louisiana’s Great River Road to determine the corridor’s eligibility for potential National Historic Landmark (NHL) district designation. We invite the public to comment on this draft study.

For more information on the draft study, see here: https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectId=117904

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19-Year-Old Black Sailor Identified 80 Years After Death During Pearl Harbor Attack According to the American Battle Monuments Commission, when a soldier is accounted for, a rosette marks the names of those who have been identified and accounted for.

To Miss New Orleans: How A Transplanted Creole Community Made LA Home In the 1950s and ‘60s, Creole families from New Orleans brought the tastes, sounds, and traditions of home to L.A.’s Jefferson Boulevard as they sought new opportunities, jobs, and “freedoms that they had never before experienced.”

150th running of the Kentucky Derby Derby will happen today!

They were born into slavery. Then they won the first Kentucky Derby. As the 150th Kentucky Derby kicks off, the achievements of jockey Oliver Lewis and trainer Ansel Williamson at the first Derby have been largely forgotten.