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FIRST!

That’s wassup.

Get dat money…Congrads!!! 2nd

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Now that’s a “Making It Rain On Them Hoes” column!
Congrads!!!

Free @ last free @ last thank god almighty were free. @ last

This made my morning.

Just goes to show that education is the key to unlock doors.

Hate to be cliche but its true.

I’m not pleased or impressed just like everybody else they trying to bent over for our college loans. If these bastards (bastardettes) took less money schools and students would be better served.

This woman has a PhD in P-H-Y-S-I-C-S from MIT.
And oh, her institution — dumbasses need not apply.

BLACK GIRLS ROCK! Get it girl…and that’s a good school too, some of the best engineers in the country come from there. But some of the very best come from Florida A&M University GO RATTLERS!

now i always heard behind every strong man is a strong woman, so behind a strong woman is….? never heard the rest of that one….anyone know? seriously asking not joking around…?

Comparing a PhD from MIT to a degree from FAMU is like having two contestants in a beaty contest:
Bey and Monique, and giving the damn award to Monique (that’s just delusional).

where are the black women bashers at now~~ seems not all black women are ghetto and loud and ignorant!

SOMETHING POSITIVE TO READ… YOU GO GIRL

This is great news!

where are the bashers:
with the OTHER lunatics —
let them STAY there, puh-leeze.

This makes for phenomenal copy but – sidenote, why do the women at the top of the tier so often look like DUDES?

Ok, Ok!!!! This is what it does! Shout out to all my Sister’s who have fought they way to the top and are still fighting their way. LETS GET IT!!!!!!!!

@drenk:
Shirley Jackson is married to Dr. Morris A. Washington, a physics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has one son, Alan, a Dartmouth College alumnus

Education, education, education. When you see our youth acting out to get attention by being silly, remind them of this article.

@ drenk, just because somebody says somthing doesn’t mean that it’s so!!! don’t be led by your nose to the wrong end!!!! learn how to use your own imagination ( there is power in it). hope that helps you

This is a great post for the AA community however did you really have to title it “make it rain on these hoes”…

that’s so disrespectful. Some stuff is unnecessary.

@ Redbone_Darkbutt_Black_White (It’s just coochie) & Trelawny

thanx that does help!

@ Redbone

I agree black love is out there. It’s not just what you see on tv or a gossip sight. Black people have been educating themselves and building empires for a long time. People like to focus on the negative.

site.

This is womderful but does this school even rank in the top 25; I want to know because I think I want to change careers.

“wonderful”

OH and BTW, Dr. Tony Rankin is not the best “black” orthopedic surgeon in the US, by his colleagues vote, he is the best — PERIOD.

@MWilsonStl
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Any site that would use the word “hoe” in ANY context, with a post on this BRILLIANT woman, tells you all you need to know about these 2-digit IQ editors.

These accomplishments about African American women happen everyday, unfortunately, the media will not let stories like this one, out of a million, come out. They would like to portray us constantly in a negative stereotypical point of view.

@ Sticky-n-Sweet

That’s right boo… I go to Florida A&M baby! Fam got dam U!!! Fam graduate the most successful black students with bachelor degress. I’m a 3rd yr. Pharmacy student. & boooyyy I can’t wait til it’s all over. The many nights of hard studying, sleepless nights, hard exams, & presentations….

drenk

now i always heard behind every strong man is a strong woman, so behind a strong woman is….? never heard the rest of that one….anyone know? seriously asking not joking around…?

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I second that motion…i couldn’t have said it better!!!!We have no back up. It’s called we, ourselves, and I….

Fact checkers on this story may not have been on their job because a recent report showed former GW University president earned $3.7M which on average, overshadowed his peers by $2M.

This sister is a true powerhouse, in every sense of the word. I just glanced at her bio online, and I haven’t seen one this impressive in a while. She has not one — but two — degrees from M.I.T. Can you say, über-smart?

rpi.edu/president/profile.html

Congrats! Keep going.

Ursula Burns, the new CEO of Xerox, is another one of my “She-roes.” She’s the first black woman to head a company in the top 150 of the Fortune 500. Another brilliant sista.

Actually, now that I think of it, the past year ushered in a number of high-level accomplishments for sisters, from the White House to Wall Street. These are women who are truly worthy of praise, respect, and emulation.

Kigali doesnt like this type of thread~!HUh!!

kigali kardashian , come in ~~ well better yet stay the hell out~!!

please don’t entice negative dirtbags to this thread — over-looking the title, this is the first really positive post on this site in days.

FYI, just came across this item on wsj.com — Another black woman first:

Black Novelist Wins Goncourt: The novel “Trois Femmes Puissantes” (Three Powerful Woman), has earned Marie NDiaye the Goncourt Prize, one of France’s leading literary awards for imaginative prose. NDiaye is now the first black woman to earn the the literary award, and the first woman in a decade to be awarded the Goncourt. “This prize is an unexpected reward for 25 years of persistence,” says NDiaye.

Wonderful, I hope she encourages other black females on the road to higher education. Great story

@Rose

What level of ignorant are you on?…celebrate this black womans achievements and stop attempting to have that day in day out black male vs black woman catastrophe we have in here daily…..Damn is fighting with brothas all you to look forward to in life….

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWSHADDAAAP!!!!!

This makes for phenomenal copy but – sidenote, why do the women at the top of the tier so often look like DUDES

What about this woman looks manly, I dont see it. I guess Im just not hate’n

@enkogkneegro ( Uncle E…if you like )
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I respect and appreciate you brother —
but I don’t deal with that person.
Dr. Jackson’s husband is a black man
with a PhD is Physics — this is a PERFET
example of a high achieving, BLACK COUPLE —
NOTICE how THAT fact is ignored, in favor
of grinding the SAME OLD AXE —
it will ALWAYS be the case with these
agenda-driven types.

Keeping with the theme of positive news, Essence.com has also posted writings from prominent brothers, including Spike Lee and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. (great writer), as part of a series called “Black Men in the Age of Obama.”

essence.com/news/black_men_in_the_age_of_president_obama/

I read an interview yesterday on CNN.com that Don Lemon (who also wrote a commentary on this subject) conducted with Colin Powell, and he shared a number of interesting points, FYI.

@Redbone

“Dr. Jackson’s husband is a black man
with a PhD is Physics — this is a PERFET
example of a high achieving, BLACK COUPLE —”

Yes, they are, and there are many others like them.

Speaking of high-achieving black couples, the NY Times magazine ran a cover story this past Sunday on the Obamas. I haven’t read it all yet, but I was very pleased to see another prominent portrayal of a brilliant black couple in love and in sync.

It’s great that she’s in a high profile position and is a top earner… but those numbers may be deceiving…

And also, it’s not always a good thing to be a top earner in higher education, especially now a days…

but congrats to her and her achievements. She’s definitely doing great things!

@Sydney
@enkogkneegro
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I grew up around couples who taught at Fisk U. or
Meharry Medical College across the street from it,
in Nashville TN, before moving to TX after military service.

High achieving black couples were the NORM, not the exception. It seems to me that some people come onto this site JUST to create divisions between black men and women — I regard them as PSYCHOs, and I genuinely pity them.

@Redbone

“I grew up around couples who taught at Fisk U. or
Meharry Medical College across the street from it,
in Nashville TN, before moving to TX after military service.”

Yeah, my dad went to Meharry — I grew up seeing successful black couples in a variety of places, at conferences, in organizations, in my family, etc. You can just go to an NMA convention and see plenty of black doctors (both brothers and sisters) and their spouses.

@Sydney™
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Dr. Tony and Dr. Frances Rankin were described THIS way by a WHITE colleague:

“If there was an aristocracy in this country, it would HAVE TO be comprised of people like these”.

I think that WHITE doctor said it all. There are so many couples like the Rankins — AH, let me go get a late lunch, and forget the loonies …..

@Redbone

“There are so many couples like the Rankins — AH, let me go get a late lunch, and forget the loonies …..”

Yeah, it’s best to forget them, although it can be very difficult at times. Reality is much different than some of the views expressed here.

Hey Sydney!!!!!

I should have known you would be up in here kicking that knowledge! Thank you!!

I grew up seeing successful Blacks too. I also saw the unsuccessful. My phlisophy is ‘igonorance’ has no race, color, gender or whatever. If people would read and do research they would know that Black people with money arent only entertainers and have been around for quite sometime.

I guess I could atleast spell ignorance right! LOL!

Hey Redd!!

“If people would read and do research they would know that Black people with money arent only entertainers and have been around for quite sometime.”

So true. The history books are filled with them — blacks have been trailblazers in a number of fields unrelated to sports and entertainment. I once looked up a list of scientific patents filed by African Americans over the years, and there were too many for me to digest in one seating. There’s an abundance of erudition and innovation in our community.

Hey WordtotheWise!

Thanks for the tip on that CNN special. I’ll checkit out later. You know I’m a big Don Lemon fan.

I just recalled that I think I read articles a few years ago on an encyclopedia of African American achievements. I’ll have to look for the title later.

BTW, there’s a new coffeetable book out on Michelle as a style icon. I want to pick it up. You know I love Chelly.

Hey Sydney!

You are so welcome. I knew you’d be interested. It’s a 6 parter, but very interesting and from several points of view.

As far as the encyclopedia, maybe you should try amazon.com. That’s usually my source for books or anything else.

Yes, ma’am, I love Chelly too, girl!

Thanks, girl. I’ll look for that book later.

BTW, here’s the title of the new book on “Mrs. O: The Face of Fashion Democracy” by Mary Tomer. I’m going to look for it in Borders.

damn only 69 comments though? congrats!!!

Good for her! We need more stories like these.

preach teetee!!!

there are a lot successfull and highly-educated black people, the media just doesn’t want to give them the credit and the spotlight.