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May has been #MentalHealthAwareness Month— MAAPC charges everyone to use this time to think about who makes your life meaningful, 🫶 who inspires you, 🤩 who sparks joy in your life. Continue to strive to turn Awareness into Action.
🧠 Volunteering, helping a friend or neighbor, or teaching someone a new skill fosters a feeling of connection and is good for your mental health!
🧠 Giving back is good for your #mentalhealth! Whether you volunteer, help a friend, or teach someone a new skill, acts of kindness create connections.
🧠 Recognizing early signs of mental health concerns can lead to timely support and positive outcomes.
#TurnAwarenessIntoAction #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters by @mod_maapc

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Supportive families, communities, and resources help children lay the groundwork for lifelong well-being. 🧠 Supportive families, schools, and communities help children and teens build strong mental health.
🧠 Teaching coping skills early empowers young people to manage emotions and challenges.
🧠 Recognizing early signs of mental health concerns can lead to timely support and positive outcomes.
🧠 Open conversations about emotions help children develop resilience and feel safe seeking help.
🧠 Regular physical activity can help improve children’s mental health and enhance their well-being.
🧠 Many children face mental health challenges—early intervention and support can make a difference. #TurnAwarenessIntoAction #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters by @mod_maapc

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As we age, we may experience life changes that impact our mental health.

🧠Life changes in older adults can impact mental health, but help is always available.
🧠Mental health conditions in older adults may present differently, such as through changes in interests or energy levels.
🧠Open conversations about mental health can encourage older adults to seek support.
🧠Mental health care can enhance quality of life, independence, and social connections.
🧠Spending time with older adults fosters meaningful connections and well-being. #TurnAwarenessIntoAction #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters by @mod_maapc

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🧠✨ May is Mental Health Awareness Month ✨🧠

The Metro Atlanta Alumni and Professional Chapter of Men Of D.I.S.T.I.N.C., Inc. wants you to join us in Turning Awareness Into Action.

Let’s break the stigma, raise awareness, and support one another. 💚
Mental health is just as important as physical health. Whether you're thriving, surviving, or somewhere in between—your feelings are valid. 💬

✅ Check in with yourself
✅ Reach out to someone you trust
✅ Take time to rest and recharge
✅ Seek help if you need it—asking for help is a sign of strength

You are not alone. Let’s normalize mental health conversations every day, not just in May. 💚

#TurnAwarenessIntoAction #MentalHealthAwareness #EndTheStigma #YouAreNotAlone #MentalHealthMatters by @mod_maapc

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Patricia Roberts Harris (1924- 1985, grew up in Mattoon and in Chicago. She graduated from Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1945, pursued graduate studies for two years at the University of Chicago, and from 1946 to 1949 was a program director for the Young Women’s Christian Association in Chicago. In 1949 she returned to Washington, D.C., where she did further graduate work at American University and worked as assistant director of the American Council on Human Rights. For six years thereafter she was executive director of the national headquarters of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. In 1960 she graduated from the law school at George Washington University and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar. After a year in the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice, she became associate dean of students and lecturer in law at Howard University. During 1962–65 she worked with the National Capital Area Civil Liberties Union.
In 1963 Harris was named cochair, with Mildred McAfee Horton, of the National Women’s Committee for Civil Rights. Serving as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg from 1965 to 1967, she was the first African American woman to hold ambassadorial rank. She rejoined the Howard law faculty from 1967 to 1969. In 1977 Harris was nominated by President Jimmy Carter to become the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in his cabinet. During the confirmation hearings she was challenged repeatedly by Republican senators who questioned her ability to represent the interests of the poor. From January 1977 to August 1979, she served in her the aforementioned, she thereafter was secretary of health, education and welfare (later health and human services). She was the first African American woman to be a member of a presidential cabinet. In 1981 she returned to George Washington University as a full-time professor of law, and in 1982 she made an unsuccessful bid for mayor of Washington, D.C.

On January 27, 2000, the United States Postal Service's released its 23rd commemorative stamp in its Black Heritage Series, honoring Harris. by @mod_maapc

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Horace King, (1807 - born a slave on September 8, 1807, in Chesterfield District, South Carolina, was a successful bridge architect and builder in west Georgia, northern Alabama and northeast Georgia from the 1830s to the 1870s. King worked for his master, John Godwin who owned a successful construction business. King supervised many of Godwin’s business activities. In 1832, King led a construction crew in building Moore’s Bridge, the first bridge crossing the lower Chattahoochee River in NW Georgia. Godwin and King constructed some of the largest bridges in Georgia, Alabama, and northeastern Mississippi. By the 1840s, King designed and supervised construction of major bridges at Wetumpka, Alabama and Columbus, Mississippi without Godwin’s supervision. In 1839, King married Frances Thomas, a free African American woman. The couple had had four boys and one girl. The King children eventually joined their father on various construction projects. In addition to building bridges, King constructed homes and government buildings for Godwin’s construction company. In 1841, King supervised the construction of the Russell County Courthouse in Alabama. King was emancipated by Godwin in 1846, to avoid his seizure by creditors. King continued to work for Godwin and when his former owner died in 1859, King assumed control of Godwin’s business.
During the Civil War, he continued to work on projects, usually for the Confederacy, including a building for the Confederate navy near Columbus, Georgia. Confederate officials also forced King to block several waterways to prevent Union access to strategic points in Georgia and Alabama.
King’s construction business prospered after the war; he worked to reconstruct bridges, textile mills, cotton warehouses and public buildings destroyed during the conflict. After passing down the family business to his son, John, Horace King was elected as a Republican to the Alabama House of Representatives, serving from 1870 to 1874.
Horace King died on May 28, 1885, in LaGrange, Georgia. by @mod_maapc

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Don Hogan Charles (1938 -2017) was born Daniel James Charles in New York City in September 1938 to James Charles and Elizabeth Ann Hogan. He attended George Washington High School in New York, NY, before attending and then dropping out of the Engineering program of City College of New York. Leaving the City College to pursue photography as a career, Don first became a freelance photographer with photographs appearing in major international publications such as Der Spiegel and Paris Match. His commercial clients included Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and Pan American World Airways. Don then became the first African American staff photographer of The New York Times. Don would work for the Times from 1964 until 2007 -- a career that lasted over forty years.
During his career, Don would photograph fellow iconic African Americans such as Coretta Scott King, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali. His photography captured and often centered on moments in the Civil Right Movement, often as he experienced it in his home of Harlem, New York, but also in places all across the United States. An important element of Don Hogan Charles’s work was his drive and ability to mentor fellow photographers -- a detail recalled fondly by many who worked and collaborated with him during his tenure at The Times.
Charles' work is currently in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, NY, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. by @mod_maapc

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James Herman Banning (1899- 1933) was an aviation pioneer. He was the first black male aviator to be granted a license by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the first black pilot to fly coast to coast across the United States.

Banning was born in 1899 in Oklahoma, the son of Riley and Cora Banning. The Bannings moved to Ames, Iowa in 1919 and Herman Banning briefly studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University before he dropped out to pursue his interest in aviation. Banning was repeatedly turned away from flight schools due to his race. He was forced to learn how to fly from a private instructor, an army aviator who taught him at Raymond Fisher’s Flying Field in Des Moines, Iowa.

Banning owned and operated an auto repair shop in Ames from 1922 until 1928. In 1929 he moved to Los Angeles, where he became the chief pilot for the Bessie Coleman Aero Club, which was named for the first black female to receive a pilot’s license. The organization’s mission was to encourage interest in aviation among African Americans.

Banning performed in air circuses and flew politicians during their campaigns. In 1930, for example, he flew Illinois Representative Oscar De Priest, who was the first black person to serve in Congress since Reconstruction, in an excursion over South Los Angeles.

In 1932, Banning and a co-pilot, Thomas C. Allen, became the first black pilots to fly coast-to-coast from Los Angeles to Long Island, New York. The flight took 42 hours of flight time, but the trip lasted for three weeks. Banning and his co-pilot had to raise money at each stop for fuel and maintenance costs.

After the historic coast-to-coast flight, Banning returned to Los Angeles and tried to rent a plane so he could participate in a San Diego airshow, but was refused because of his race. He instead participated as a passenger in a biplane, sitting in the front cockpit without controls, with a relatively inexperienced white Navy pilot at the controls. The Navy pilot brought the plane into a steep climb, causing the engine to stall. The plane crashed in front of hundreds of spectators and both men were killed. Banning was 34 at the time of his death. by @mod_maapc

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Dolores Margaret Richard Spikes (August 24, 1936 – June 1, 2015) was an American mathematician and university administrator. Born in Baton Rouge, Dolores Richard attended public and parochial schools in that city and, still in her home city, went on to Southern University from which she earned her B.S. degree in mathematics in 1957. Also at Southern she met her future husband, Hermon Spikes. Spikes continued her education at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where she earned a master of science degree in mathematics and then returned in 1958 to Louisiana where she married Spikes and began teaching high school science in Mossville, a small, mostly black community near Lake Charles. In December, 1971 (with a dissertation titled “Semi-Valuations and Groups of Divisibility”) Dolores Spikes earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Louisiana State University. The website “Black Women in Mathematics” affirms that Spikes was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from Louisiana State; that website also offers a number of anecdotes that help to portray Spikes as a human being as well as an academic. In the 1980s at Southern University Spikes moved into various administrative positions—starting in 1982 as Assistant to the Chancellor and, in the late eighties, she served as Chancellor for both the Baton Rouge and New Orleans Campuses of Southern University—in fact, she was the first female chancellor of a Louisiana Land Grant University. In 1987 she was appointed to the board of Harvard University’s Institute of Educational Management. In 1988 Dr. Spikes accepted the position of president of the Southern University and A&M College System.— she not only was the first woman to lead a public college or university in Louisiana, she also was the first woman in the US to serve as chief administrator for a university system. Later, Spikes became the 11th president of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore—and its first female president—from 1996–2001. She died in 2015 and was funeralized at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baton Rouge. #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #mathematics by @mod_maapc

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Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) was a playwright, writer, and activist.
Hansberry was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. She was the daughter of a real estate entrepreneur, Carl Hansberry, and schoolteacher, Nannie Hansberry, as well as the niece of Pan-Africanist scholar and college professor Leo Hansberry. Her own family’s landmark court case against discriminatory real estate covenants in Chicago would serve as inspiration for her seminal Broadway play, A Raisin in the Sun. Raisin, her best-known work, would eventually become a highly lauded film starring Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, and Diana Sands.

Hansberry originally wanted to be an artist when she attended the University of Wisconsin, but soon changed her focus to study drama and stage design. After two years, she left college for New York to serve as a writer and editor of Paul Robeson’s left-wing newspaper Freedom. Hansberry, an outspoken Communist, was committed to racial equity and participated in civil rights demonstrations. It was at one of these demonstrations that Hansberry met her husband and closest friend, Robert Nemiroff.

Despite her being married, Hansberry secretly affirmed her homosexuality in various correspondence and in short stories later discovered in archives. She continued to write plays, short stories, and articles in addition to delivering speeches regarding race relations in the United States. She became close friends with James Baldwin and Nina Simone. It was with those friends and Nemiroff that she kept a secret about the pancreatic cancer that would eventually take her life on January 12, 1965, at age 34. Simone penned the song “Young, Gifted and Black” in tribute to her good friend by @mod_maapc

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Etta Zuber Falconer (November 21, 1933 – September 19, 2002) was an American educator and mathematician the bulk of whose career was spent at Spelman College, where she eventually served as department head and associate provost. She was one of the earlier African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Etta Falconer attended the Tupelo public school system, graduating from Carver High School in 1949. At the age of 15 she entered Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in mathematics and minored in chemistry, graduating summa cum laude in 1953. She went on to study at the University of Wisconsin, where she earned a Master of Science degree in mathematics in 1954. Lonely in Wisconsin, she decided not to pursue her doctorate there and returned to Mississippi to teach. In 1965, by which time she had married, changed her name to Etta Falconer, and started teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, she entered graduate school at Emory University where she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics (1969), with a dissertation on quasigroup theory, supervised by Trevor Evans she later published two research papers based on her dissertation work, one of which was published in 1971 by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Falconer devoted 37 years of her life to teaching mathematics and improving science education at Spelman College. In 1995, she stated: “My entire career has been devoted to increasing the number of African American women in mathematics and mathematics-related careers.” Along with her teaching career, Falconer strived to inspire more African American women to pursue careers in math or science by working with prominent organizations. This included the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Associate for Women in Mathematics, and the National Institute of Science. #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #mathematics by @mod_maapc

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Jimmie Daniels was born in 1908 in Laredo, Texas and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He arrived in New York in the 1920s to attend Business College and become a secretary, but after finishing school he opted to go on stage. After some Broadway work, Daniels found his first professional singing gig at Harlem's Hot Cha nightclub. He left New York in 1933 for Europe where he became a popular cafe entertainer in Monte Carlo and London. After his return in 1934 Daniels began a two-year relationship with renowned architect Philip Johnson. In 1935 he met Herbert Jacoby who convinced him to come to Jacoby's Paris club. By 1939 he had again returned to New York and opened Jimmie Daniels' Nightclub, which succeeded by bringing downtown patrons uptown for an exotic night in Harlem. Daniels owned and operated the popular nightspot until joining the military in 1942. After World War Il he returned to New York's club scene where, by 1950, he became the singer/emcee of the Bon Soir supper club - a place where African Americans and whites, as well as gay and straight clientele, interacted without tension. The club, which hosted numerous rising stars, is perhaps best remembered as the legendary site of Barbra Streisand's first New York engagement in 1960. During this time Daniels became the lover of filmmaker Kenneth Macpherson, and later of fashion designer Rex Madsen. When he was let go from Bon Soir, after ten years, many of his loyal clientele left with him. The owners urged him to return, but he refused, and continued to perform around the city at clubs, parties, and festivals. In the early 1980's, Daniels often lived with and cared for his oldest, dearest friend, the legendary blues vocalist Alberta Hunter, whom he eventually preceded in death. The charismatic man who dazzled cafe society for decades passed at the age of 76 after suffering a stroke in 1984. by @mod_maapc

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