People We Should Know
People We Should Know
There is an antidote for the headlines of the day. Positive people doing positive things who don’t make the evening news.
David Blackwell, mathematician who influenced probability and game theory.
Philip Emeagwali, mathematician whose algorithms made the internet feasible.
Ted Ginn, Sr., high school coach and mentor to young men.
Lonnie Johnson, nuclear engineer and inventor of the very successful Super Soaker squirt gun.
Jamail Larkins, founder and CEO of Ascension Aircraft.
Michael Seibel, co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv the largest live video site on the internet.
This is a sequel to an earlier blogpost, the title of which -as an incentive for you to scan back and check out my earlier stuff – I won’t reveal. As I continue to encounter barely noticed stories of cultural contributions by people of African descent, I will share them in this blog as a way to balance the weight of negative media.
Everyone is of African descent and therfore possibly worthy of mention on your blog. Did you in fact mean people of significant color or recent African family ties.