Good Black News: The Daily Drop

Update on Status of GBN's Daily Drops (Bonus)

If you follow us, you may have been wondering why there hasn't been a Daily Drop for a few weeks, especially since this podcast's extended title is literally "The Daily Drop"! This short bonus offers a brief explanation, as well as what to expect going forward. Thank you in advance for listening and for your patience!

GBN Daily Drop for May 30, 2022: Memorial Day and its African American Origins

Memorial Day, an American national holiday dedicated to the memory of fallen US soldiers, is celebrated on the last Monday of May. Its beginnings however, started on the first day of May in 1865, when by a group of newly liberated Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina placed flowers on the unmarked graves of captured Union soldiers and held a parade to honor the dead. To learn more about what was originally known as "Decoration Day", check out the links to sources below:https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charlestonhttps://www.lx.com/black-legacy/dont-overlook-memorial-days-black-southern-roots/53453/https://www.live5news.com/2020/02/18/charleston-claims-first-memorial-day-celebration-with-african-americans-playing-significant-role/https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/05/28/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-american-memorial-day-is-commemorated/If you like these Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop for May 12, 2022: Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1st African American Licensed Nurse in U.S.

Born in 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney worked hard for nearly two decades to earn her nursing license, overcoming discrimination to become the first African American person to do so in the United States. To learn more about Boston-born and based Mahoney, read Mary Eliza Mahoney and the Legacy of African-American Nurses, watch a short bio on YouTube or check out the links to more sources below.Sources:https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mahoneyhttps://www.essence.com/black-history-month-2019/mary-eliza-mahoney-the-first-black-nurse/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/obituaries/mary-eliza-mahoney-overlooked.htmlhttps://nursing-theory.org/famous-nurses/Mary-Mahoney.phphttps://www.biography.com/activist/mary-mahoneyhttp://ojin.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/Honoring-Nurses/NationalAwardsProgram/HallofFame/19761982/mahome5552.htmlIf you like these Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend. For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop for May 11, 2022: Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (Black Inventors)

The first African American woman to earn a doctorate at M.I.T., Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is responsible for the major advances in telecommunications research that led to the invention of the touch-tone phone, portable fax, fiber optic cables, solar cells, call waiting and caller ID. To learn more about the current president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technological research university in the U.S., check out the links to sources below:Strong Force: The Story of Physicist Shirley Ann Jackson https://president.rpi.edu/president-biographyhttps://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/shirley-ann-jackson/https://www.news10.com/news/local-news/dr-shirley-ann-jackson-a-lifetime-shattering-glass-ceilings-in-math-and-science-for-black-women/https://youtu.be/mKAgAdHaJw0 (National Medal of Science bio)https://youtu.be/0CYQAQ1EPSo (Storied Women of MIT)https://youtu.be/ATcTENr07U8 (An evening with Dr. Jackson NSTMF)https://youtu.be/xvGPPE-09OE (Brown University Department of Physics bio) If you like these Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

GBN Daily Drop for May 9, 2022: Oliver Lewis, the Inaugural Kentucky Derby Winner

Jockey Oliver Lewis won the inaugural Kentucky Derby atop the colt Aristides on May 17, 1875. Lewis was one of thirteen Black jockeys in the fifteen-strong field. But even though Blacks dominated horseracing in the late 1800s, by the early 1900s, they’d been pushed out of the sport, with James Winkfield being the last to win in 1902. After an almost 80 year drought, in 2000, Marlon St. Julien was the next Black jockey to compete.To learn more about Oliver Lewis and the long history of African American people in horse racing, check out the sources below.Sources:https://www.britannica.com/topic/African-Americans-and-Horse-Racing-1984952https://kchr.ky.gov/Hall-of-Fame/Pages/Oliver-Lewis.aspxhttps://www.derbymuseum.org/Exhibits/Detail/12/Black-Heritage-in-Racinghttps://madamenoire.com/1314353/a-group-of-black-women-horse-owners-make-history-after-winning-their-first-kentucky-oaks-day-race/https://biography.jrank.org/pages/2969/Lewis-Oliver.htmlhttps://www.americasbestracing.net/videos/2022-celebrate-black-history-month-jockey-oliver-lewishttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=151711493456737https://youtu.be/6kXTvHErwm8 (Kentucky Derby video on Black Jockeys)If you like these Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.