Victoria aims for engineering victory

Wakanda News Details

Victoria aims for engineering victory

Some 250 Jamaicans have been awarded Chevening Scholarships since Jamaica's first cohort in 1984.Founded in 1983, Chevening is the United Kingdom Government's global scholarship programme aimed at developing global leaders through providing the opportunity to undertake postgraduate study in the UK.This year, 14 outstanding Jamaicans were selected for the scholarship.

Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

You may also like

Did You Know That In...

1675 - There are 100,000 African slaves in the West Indies, compared to 5,000 in the North American colonies.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Jan

0

1675

(1876) Senator Blanche K. Bruce, “...Appointing a Committee to Investigate Election Practices in Mississippi”

Senator Blanche K. Bruce, “Speech Before The Senate to Introduce a Resolution Appointing a Committee to Investigate Election Practices in Mississippi,” 1876

fave

Source: Black Past

U.S. Department of State Background Note

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

fave

Source: Black Past

Johnson, Francis (1792-1844)

Francis Johnson, musician, composer, and bandmaster, was born in 1792 in Martinique in the West Indies and emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1809 at the age of 17. By that point he had already mastered the keyed bugle and the violin. By his early 20s he was building a reputation as

fave

Source: Black Past

Jamiaca's Independence

Jamaica became an independent domininon within the British Commonwealth.

fave

Source: Blackfacts.com

Aug

6

1962

(1923) James Weldon Johnson, “Our Democracy and the Ballot”

Poet, novelist and U.S. diplomat, James Weldon Johnson is probably best known to millions as the author of the lyrics to “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the black national anthem. Johnson was also a civil rights activist and was Executive Secretary of the National Association of Colored

fave

Source: Black Past

Mar

10

1923

Black History Month Special Feature, 2012 - Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project

Scientists and Technicians of the Manhattan Project

fave

Source: Black Past

The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington

fave

Source: Black Past

The Moynihan Report (1965)

fave

Source: Black Past

Jan

4

1965

Home › About Us - Staff Biographies

fave

Source: Black Past

Bassett, Ebenezer D. (1833-1908)

Ebenezer D. Bassett was appointed U.S. Minister Resident to Haiti in 1869, making him the first African American diplomat. For eight years, the educator, abolitionist, and black rights activist oversaw bilateral relations through bloody civil warfare and coups détat on the island of

fave

Source: Black Past

Oct

16

1833

Negritude Movement

The literary movement, Negritude, was born out of the Paris intellectual environment of 1930s and 1940s. It is a product of black writers joining together through the French language to assert their cultural

fave

Source: Black Past

Wells, Nathaniel (1779 – 1852)

Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the first person of African ancestry to become a High Sheriff in England. Wells was born on September 10, 1779 on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean to William

fave

Source: Black Past

May

13

1852

Bernard Jeffrey “Bernie” McCullough, or Bernie Mac, was an American comedian and actor, born on October 5, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. After losing his mother at the age of 16, Mac would set up stand-up comedy shows for neighborhood kids and spent most of his 20s serving various

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Aug

9

2008

Tomlinson, Maurice (1971- )

Maurice Tomlinson is one of the most well-known gay rights activists in the world. He is an attorney-at-law, law lecturer, journalist, and HIV/AIDS and LGBTI (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Intersexual) activist in Jamaica and the

fave

Source: Black Past

Apr

9

1971

Born to a teen mother whose husband left her early on, Alvin Ailey grew up in the small Texas town of Navasota with a family that was facing financial difficulties. Drawing inspiration from the black church services and the music at the local dance hall, Ailey left for Los Angeles at the age of 12

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Oakwood University [Huntsville] (1896- )

Oakwood College is a private, four-year coeducational historically black liberal arts university located in Huntsville, Alabama; the small urban campus is five minutes from downtown. Sitting on 1,185 acres, Oakwood University is one of the historical landmarks of Huntsville. It is the only

fave

Source: Black Past

Andre Reboucas was born in 1838 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was trained at the Military School of Rio de Janeiro and became an engineer after studying in Europe. After returning to Brazil, Reboucas was named a lieutenant in the engineering corps in the 1864 Paraguayan War. During the war, as

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Tucson, Arizona (1900- )

Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church began its ministry to the black community of Tucson, Arizona in 1900 when Baptist missionary Rev. John B. Bell arrived, conducted services, and with ten other devoted men and women organized the Baptist Mission. Rev. Bell was part of a longstanding effort by

fave

Source: Black Past

(1864) Frederick Douglass On “The Mission Of The War”

On January 13, 1864, Frederick Douglass was invited to deliver a speech before the Women’s Loyal League at the Cooper Institute in New York City. He used the occasion to add his voice to the ongoing debate about the mission and meaning of the Civil War. In this address he reminded his audience that

fave

Source: Black Past

(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "The Voting Rights Act"

In early March 1965 much of the nations attention was focused on civil rights marches in and around Selma, Alabama. Activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King used these demonstrations to urge the federal government to act to end the denial of voting rights to tens of thousands of African Americans

fave

Source: Black Past

54th Massachusetts Infantry (1863-1865)

The Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry was the first Northern black volunteer regiment enlisted to fight in the Civil War. Its accomplished combat record led to the general recruitment of African-Americans as soldiers. They ultimately comprised ten percent of Union Army and Navy. The

fave

Source: Black Past

In September 2011, Prime Minister Bruce Golding resigned. Goldings political standing never recovered after his handling of the Christopher Coke case. For nine months, Golding resisted a request from the United States to hand over Coke. His resignation was seen as an effort to help the Jamaica

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Dec

29

2011

(1857) Charles Lenox Remond, “An Anti-Slavery Discourse”

By 1857 “Bleeding Kansas’ and the Dred Scott Decision had intensified sectional tensions over slavery and moved the nation closer to civil war. Against that backdrop, Charles Lenox Remond, on July 10, 1857, addressed the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society where he joined a growing chorus of

fave

Source: Black Past

Jul

10

1857

The Caymans consist of three islands—Grand Cayman (76 sq mi; 197 sq km), Cayman Brac (22 sq mi; 57 sq km), and Little Cayman (20 sq mi; 52 sq km)—situated about 180 mi (290 km) northwest of Jamaica. They were dependencies of Jamaica until 1959, when they became a unit territory within the

fave

Source: Fact Monster - Black History

May

29

2013

Blackwell, David Harold (1919-2010)

David Harold Blackwell, mathematician and statistician, was the first African American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences (1965) and is especially known for his contributions to the theory of duels. Blackwell was born on April 24, 1919, to a working-class family in

fave

Source: Black Past

Jul

8

2010

As a child, Valerie Thomas became fascinated with the mysteries of technology, tinkering with electronics with her father and reading books on electronics written for adolescent boys. The likelihood of her enjoying a career in science seemed bleak, as her all-girls high school did not push her to

fave

Source: Black History Resources

Thomas, Debi (1967- )

Debi Thomas is a figure skater and physician, and the first African American woman to win a medal in the Winter Olympics. Thomas was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1967 and first started skating around the age of five. However she did not get serious and begin taking lessons until she was nine

fave

Source: Black Past

Hunt, William Henry (1863-1951)

William Henry Hunt, African American U.S. diplomat, was born a slave in Tennessee in 1863. Hunt claimed to have been born on June 29, 1869, so he could get into school at the age of twenty-six posing as a twenty-year-old, a lie he kept to his grave. Although June 29 might have been his actual day

fave

Source: Black Past

More from Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Finally!

57 children among Jamaica's 505 COVID-19 cases

Bernard Lodge development on target despite COVID-19

T&T students in Jamaica to return home on special flight

Government exploring other dates for CXC exam

Protocols in place for quarantine of diplomats

No frolicking on Labour Day weekend; curfew tightened

Ja reopening

UDC still seeking offers to manage Sumfest site

People fail to observe social distancing in collection of CARE grant

Coffee exporters seek Gov't help to mitigate COVID-19 fallout

PNP councillor calls for more money to fix parochial roads

This Day In History - May 12

JN bolsters nurses' fight against COVID-19

Supreme Ventures takes Read Across Jamaica Day to social media

Buses for transport of front-line workers loaned to WRHA

US warned of risk

Wear more cloth masks, Dr Whylie urges public

Greene: Western Jamaica coping in fight against COVID-19

Tropics View Hotel is temporary quarantine centre

Unicomer donates hospital beds valued over $3m

HOPE FOR STRANDED J'CAN

FOOD...is still the call by St Mary residents on lockdown

Bartlett: Right steps being made to bring tourism back

This Day in History - May 11

Not all clergymen saying amen to new church protocols

Gravedigger 'stuck' in St Mary lockdown

Locked down and disconnected

Still possible to obtain US visa emergency appointment, but...

Company supports group using 3D printers to make face shields

Nurses, our heroes

Bar backlash

COVID-19 recoveries climb to 100

Farm worker waiver balances the assumption of risk and liability

CARE crush forces remittance agency to open windows at National Stadium

Canadian ganja dreams go up in smoke

Urban planners' expertise missing from COVID-19 response

This Day In History - May 13

Jamaican medical student in Cuba readies for Spanish Town Hospital mission

A young farmer's desire to speak with Audley Shaw

Indian community gives packages to St Mary people

Cruise crew still want to come home, despite horror stories

Sunday Brew — May 17, 2020

Digicel's 'Shake to Win' boosts MoBay charities

NCEL to launch new online course for principals, vice-principals

Exam headache!

PM, Clarke copied as Gaming Assn acts on eve of court hearing

Can vitamin D protect you from COVID-19?

No dominoes at church!

Jamaicans praise treatment at quarantine facility

Lifestyle Facts

Blackfacts BETA RELEASE 11.5.3
(Production Environment)