Tamia Potter: Black Woman Neurosurgeon

From TeenVogue - 

Tamia Potter Is One of the Only Black Women Neurosurgeons in the U.S.

Only 0.6% of neurosurgeons in the country are Black women.

BY ADAIRA LANDRY

Tamia in the operating room STEPHONX PHOTOGRAPHY

Tamia Potter will soon become the first Black woman neurosurgery resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, an institution founded nearly 150 years ago. This achievement is even more remarkable given that, as of 2019, only 0.6% of neurosurgeons in the United States were Black women. Potter is on the brink of breaking a barrier, yet her origin story provides insight into just how much distance a Black woman must travel to succeed.

Potter was born and raised in Crawfordville, Florida, a small town where front doors are rarely locked and neighbors feel like family. And as a child — when she wasn’t outside mud bogging on an ATV or eating fresh food from her grandparent’s farm — she studied the human body. Inspired by her mother, a nurse, Potter developed an early, insatiable curiosity for anatomy and science. During high school, Potter became a nursing assistant and cared for patients in nursing homes suffering from dementia. While in college she was able to observe neurosurgery in the operating room, a moment that truly inspired her path. Potter would go on to complete medical school at Case Western Reserve University with plans to become a neurosurgeon herself.

Teen Vogue explored her journey — full of sacrifice, insecurity, and mentorship — into one of the most competitive and time intensive specialties in medicine.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/tamia-potter-black-women-neurosurgeon

Hello Again!

Hello Folks,

It's been so long since I've posted; I forgot my address, login, and everything!  

So much has happened.

I retired as a K-8 principal after 24 years in education.  Returning after COVID was exhausting.  

I moved from Sacramento to Houston.  The cost of living is so much cheaper in Texas.

I purchased a home sight unseen that I absolutely love and have had so much fun making into a home.  

I discovered I needed back surgery.  Had it.  Thank God it was successful, and I'm recovering from that nicely.  

I've missed you.

But I've had mixed emotions being in my office.  This is where I lived when I worked remotely and I hated it.  If I never have to Zoom again, I'm OK with that.  

I know it's silly, but I still avoid this room.  

Anyway, I'm back.

If anyone is interested in continuing to FollowFaye, I'll be posting more than once a year from now on.  Promise.  

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A Ballin' Doctor!

An excerpt from Black Enterprise - 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL STAR BECOMES FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO EARN DOCTORATE IN BIOCHEMISTRY AT FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

By Jeroslyn Johnson

FIU

Chantrall Frazier made her way through college as a star player on the women’s basketball team. But she’s leaving the school having made history in another area.

As part of Florida International University’s 2022 graduating class, Frazier became the first Black woman at the university to earn her Ph.D. in biochemistry. Frazier brought her passion for biochemistry to the school after obtaining her bachelor’s degree at the HBCU–Savannah State University.

Through her groundbreaking research, Frazier received departmental funding and funding from the Dubai Police. The Florida Education McKnight Fellow and Florida AGEP Pathways Alliance (FL-AGEP) scholar’s work helped to pave a lane for collaborations with the FIU research community. She also created optimized protocols for examining human odor profiles to understand the odors that attract mosquitos.

https://www.blackenterprise.com/college-basketball-star-becomes-first-black-woman-to-earn-doctorate-in-biochemistry-at-florida-university/

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What a Kid!

 

A 5th-grade boy is going viral for his beautiful rendition of Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come.’ Jordan Hollins' performance won him Best of Show at a local talent contest in Shreveport, Louisiana. If you have 60 seconds, this might be just the video you need to watch today. pic.twitter.com/gelGiO9SxU

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The Same Story 21 Times

An excerpt from Buzzfeed - 

Every Time There's A Mass Shooting, The Onion Writes The Same Story. Today, It Featured All 21.

The Onion's editor-in-chief, Chad Nackers, explained why after the Uvalde shooting it reposted every variation of its story "'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."

By David Mack, BuzzFeed News Reporter

It jokingly bills itself "America's finest news source," but for years now the Onion has done exceptional, biting coverage of a very American phenomenon.

Each time there is a high-profile mass shooting, the satirical website publishes a variation of the exact same story.

Starting with the 2014 attack in Isla Vista, California, that killed six people, the Onion published a piece titled "'No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens."

In the years since, it has published that same headline 20 more times.

"It's just incredibly draining and it's hard to actually find like new angles on it," Onion Editor-in-Chief Chad Nackers told BuzzFeed News in an interview on Wednesday. "And this kind of encompasses everything and it just works so well and it captures the helplessness of it."

On Wednesday, the Onion published its 21st variation of the story — this time in response to the murder of 19 elementary school children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, the previous day.

For the first time ever, the Onion devoted its entire front page to all 21 past stories and linked all the past pieces in a long Twitter thread.

"Today, it kind of shows how powerful that looks when the entire homepage is filled with showing that nothing has been done for eight years," Nackers said.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/onion-mass-shooting-story-no-way-prevent-this-uvalde

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Disgraceful

From Newsweek-

See the whole list @

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senators-nra-funding-texas-school-shooting-uvalde-1710332

Senators bankrolled by the NRA:

Mitt Romney: $13,648,000

Richard Burr: $6,987,000

Roy Blunt: $4,556,000

Thom Tillis: $4,421,000

Marco Rubio: $3,303,000

Joni Ernst: $3,125,000

Josh Hawley: $1,392,000

Mitch McConnell: $1,267,000

Ted Cruz: $176,000

An absolute disgrace.

— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 25, 2022

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