Black History Month: Blackcard Holders and Owners!

Okay, first of all some may notice no mention on this blog of the Chris Brown & RihRih fuckery. Well everyone and their mom is reporting everything they can find or make up on the situation so there is no need for me to waste space for something that isn't fully explained yet. Until the full story comes out from either one of them, I will stay mute, but if you don't know what's going on click here. Well on the positive moments in Black History, which is the purpose of Black History Month. We shop there, eat there, go to the doctor through them, make copies of that damn credit card bill you refuse to pay there, but how many of you know that its a brother or sistah getting that paper for all of it. Well check out some of the other and sometimes more powerful Black Presidents in America.

Current African American CEO's of Fortune 500 Companies


Clarence Otis, Jr.
Company: Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Position: Chief Executive Officer and President

Kenneth I. Chenault
Company: American Express
Position: Chairman and CEO

Richard Dean Parson
Company: Citigroup Inc.
Position: Chairman

Ronald A. Williams
Company: Aetna Inc.
Position: CEO/President

Former African American CEO's of Fortune 500 Companies


Aylwin Lewis
Company: Potbelly Sandwich Works
Position: Chief Executive Officer and President

Franklin Delano Raines
Company: Revolution LLC
Position: Director

Stan O'Neal
Company: Merrill Lynch & Co.
Position: Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President

Possible Future Black CEO's of Fortune 500 Companies


Don Thompson
Company: McDonald's USA
Position: President

John W. Thompson
Company: Symantec Corporation
Position: Chairman, CEO

Ursula M Burns
Company: Xerox Corporation
Position: President, Director

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Black History Month!

This Black History Month has enough first to spawn hundreds of pages of Black History Month reports without one mention of Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, or Malcolm X! First black President of the GOP, First Black President of America, things may seemed to be better, but the power of Black History Month needs to be celebrated. So, even though it's a week late, we will celebrate all things black this month. To make up with the week we missed since Black History Month is a short ass Month, here is 7 things you may not know about Black History. 1. Black History Month originated in 1926 by Carter Godwin Woodson as Negro History Week. The month of February was chosen in honor of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who were both born in that month.
2. Gransville T. Woods invented the "telegraphony," an invention that Alexander Graham Bell's company purchased, which lead to the invention of the telephone.
3. Andrew Jackson Beard in 1897 invented the automatic railroad car coupler (aka the Jenny Coupler). This invention allowed two railroad cars to lock automatically by bumping into each other. Prior to this invention, a railroad employee would have to drop a bin between the two connectors of the railroad cars. Often times they could not get out in time and many lost their limbs and even their lives.
4. Nancy Green (1834 – 1923) a former slave, was employed in 1893 to promote the Aunt Jemima brand by demonstrating the pancake mix at expositions and fairs. She was a popular attraction because of her friendly personality, great story-telling, and warmth. Green signed a lifetime contract with the pancake company and her image was used for packaging and billboards.
5. Beyonce Knowles (1981 - ) an award-winning singer, songwriter and actress is the first African-American woman to win the "Songwriter of the Year" award at the ASCAP Pop Music Awards in 2001 and also holds the record for the longest run on the Billboard Hot 100's number one spot in 2003 with the songs "Crazy in Love" (8 weeks) and "Baby Boy" (9 weeks). Beyonce is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars.
6. Lonnie G. Johnson (1949 - ), an engineer who performed spacecraft system design for NASA, invented the Super Soaker water gun - the number one selling toy in America in 1991.
7. Dr. Charles Drew (1904 - 1950) discovered techniques to store blood and developed blood banks.

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