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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. One Lake Tahoe Community College staff member is using his experience growing up in the segregated south in the heart of the civil rights movement to shape young minds.
King speaking at an LTCC-hosted anti-racism rally in June 2020. / Provided
Dr. Jonathan King joined LTCC in 2018 as the vice president of student services, a role he sees as “basically is to make sure our students are happy, healthy, excited, ready to learn, ready to grow, ready to graduate, and transfer and flourish and make a difference in the world.”
He knows a little something about making a difference in the world; from watching his grandfather and parents fight for equality, to meeting Martin Luther King Jr., to being one of the first black students in an all-white school and so many other experiences that have shaped him.
Black Inventors Who Changed The World: George Washington Carver
This Black innovator changed the way we live with the discovery of 300 uses of the peanut.
George Washington Carver was a botanist, scientist, inventor, professor, scholar, and humanitarian. In 1896, he joined the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama, a vocational school for African-Americans. There, he would not only discover all of the amazing byproducts of the peanut, but would also spend the rest of his life at the institute inventing, teaching, and creating.
Carver was determined to find a new food to help impoverished, starving Black farmers in Alabama, and he used agricultural chemistry and scientific methodology to test the soil. While conducting his study, Carver was able to determine what kind of crop would grow best in the region. That discovery revealed the local soil was perfect for growing peanuts and sweet potatoes. He revolutionized the farming industry in America and was later dubbed
RICHMOND â With all of the discussion about which statues should come down and go up around the commonwealth, Sen. David Suetterlein, R-Roanoke County, wants a statue of Booker T. Washington to go up in the Virginia State Capitol.
Suetterlein is asking the General Assembly to set up a commemorative commission to work toward putting a statue of Washington, one of the most influential Black leaders of his time, in the Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol.
âI really believe that Booker T. Washington needs to be honored at Capitol Square,â Suetterlein told the Senate Rules Committee on Friday. âHeâs a great American and a great Virginian, and Virginia doesnât get as much credit as we should for this great Virginian that did so much for this country.â
arvodaya (welfare for all).
The British Government in India stood for the capitalists and big business in Britain, and this determined the commercial, industrial and financial policies, such as paying for British war efforts and dispersing her debts. So big Indian industry was not fostered, and instead, exploited India’s immense resources and labor markets.
Gandhi sensed that by patronizing indigenous industry, big and small, work could be made available to the unemployed masses, and thereby they would not be ruthlessly exploited. What was foremost on his mind was the stark poverty of the masses. Gandhi advocated the revival of cottage industry such as