#African American hero

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Story Climax- You Were Saying?

Just posted Milk RUN chapter scene #32 titled “You Were Saying?” to my StoryOrigin Beta Reader site.   MILK RUN is a military SciFi story about a young captain (fresh out of Space Command Training school) who must get his space battlecruiser, the USS Princeton and its top-secret cargo, the Crowbar, safely to a secluded star base.  But what he thought would be an easy “milk run’ mission turns out…

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Black Power

Art by Jay Hero

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Medal of Honor Monday: Charles Thomas

On this day in 1920, a hero is born. Charles Leroy Thomas didn’t set out to be a soldier. To the contrary, he was a college student, studying mechanical engineering when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

That attack rocked many lives, and Thomas was no exception. He was soon drafted into the Army. By August 1944, he was in France. He was then a second lieutenant commanding a company in a segregated unit, the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

Thomas’s heroism came on December 14, 1944, as the Third Army worked its way across France towards the German border. The next target was the French village of Climbach, just five miles from the German border. The village had to be taken. German supply lines ran through that town.

Climbach might have been an important target, but it was also a difficult one.

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-charles-l-thomas-moh

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https://www.kennedy-center.org/artists/w/wa-wn/marion-williams/

Marion Williams (1927-1994) was a wonderful gospel singer whose legacy lives on in her beautiful, inspiring music

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Tina Turner performing “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)” live at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona [1990].

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Navy Hidden Hero: Gladys Mae West and GPS

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GAY ICONS MATT BAKER

Matt Baker is the best known African-American artist from the Golden Age of comics (1940s and early 1950s). He drew in the “good girl” art style, his curvaceous Phantom Lady is a great example. He worked with several comic publishers of the era, including Fox, Quality, and Charleton.

Baker also created the first black character that appeared regularly in Crown comics - Voodah, a Tarzan-like jungle hero. But during that era, many comic book wholesalers and retails refused to sell comics featuring Black characters on the cover. So to avoid the problem, Voodah was depicted as Caucasian of the covers but African on the inside pages.

Baker never married and his brother considered him a “Lady’s Man”. But Frank Giusto, one of his close friends, and artist Lee J. Ames (a fellow artist) have said in interviews that Baker was gay.

Baker was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.

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For the second year in a row, Allen Media Group’s news/entertainment media platform theGrio, proudly announces the official call for nominations for the theGrio Heroes initiative, starting today, Monday, January 8, 2024, via the platform’s website. Submissions will be accepted through February 9, 2024.

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we were doing so well.

[korbibtor]

Got A New Story Hook!

Work continues on MILK RUN now that the plot hole has been repaired.   Also, I received some valuable feedback and much needed encouragement from my Beta Readers on the improvements.    Thanks Guys! Your comments and recommendations are helping me make this story better as I near the completion of this military SciFi that’s bordering on about 51,000 words.    I’m sure that the count will change…

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The Harlem Shadow

Art by Mshindo Kuumba

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This Day in History: Jesse Owens

On this day in 1990, Jesse Owens posthumously receives the Congressional Gold Medal. Owens is perhaps best known for his stunning performance at the 1936 Olympics, which were played in Nazi Germany just before World War II.

“Mr. Owens, who was black, scored a triumph that would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political,” his obituary noted. “Adolf Hitler had intended the Berlin Games to be a showcase for the Nazi doctrine of Aryan supremacy.”

Instead, Hitler watched as Owens scored victory after victory.

Who would have known that the son of Alabama sharecroppers would turn out to be such a phenomenon?

The story continues here: https://www.taraross.com/post/tdih-jesse-owens

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Jesse Brown 1926-1950 (US Navy’s First Black Aviator)

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Covers of the Week #91: Beverly Jenkins