FollowingFaye

Monday, November 20, 2023

Rosalynn Carter: A Testament to Her Character (May She RIP)

An excerpt from Time.com

Rosalynn Carter Hired a Wrongfully Convicted Murderer to Serve as White House Nanny. They Remained Lifelong Friends

BY KATHY EHRICH DOWD

Amy Carter playing on the White House grounds with Mary Prince.
National Archives and Records Administration/Wiki Commons

Mary Prince, a Black woman who had been convicted of murder, was already a controversial figure at Jimmy Carter’s 1977 Presidential Inauguration.

Although she was incarcerated, Prince was given permission to travel to Washington, D.C. for the event and arrived in a dress made of material given to her by her fellow inmates at the Fulton County Jail and the Atlanta Work Release Center. At the end of the celebration, Prince remembers newly minted First Lady Rosalynn Carter pulling her aside. "Before I left, Mrs. Carter said, 'How would you like to work in this big old place?'" Prince told People that year.

Rosalynn Carter and Prince had known each other for years at that point, and had developed a close bond. Prince had been young Amy Carter's nanny when the family lived at the Georgia governor's mansion, not long after Prince was accused of—and subsequently sentenced to life for—murder. When the Carters arrived at the White House, most political operatives would have advised the family to keep their distance from Prince. But the first couple did the opposite.

After the inauguration, Prince told Rosalynn that she would indeed be interested in working at the White House. And Rosalynn pulled out all the stops: She secured a reprieve for Prince, helped make President Carter her parole officer and officially hired her to serve as Amy Carter's nanny at the White House.

https://time.com/5919091/rosalynn-carter-mary-prince-white-house-nanny/

Send Your Name to Space in a Bottle

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

Send your name to space via NASA’s ‘Message in a Bottle’

The space agency is inviting people to submit their names by the end of the year for inclusion on a mission to one of Jupiter’s moons

By Erin Blakemore

In 2024, a new spacecraft will hurtle toward Jupiter in a bid to learn whether its moon Europa is capable of supporting life. The craft will carry more than high-tech sensors: It also will bear a poem and hundreds of thousands of human names.

Yours could be one of them.

NASA is asking people to submit their names ahead of the mission’s October 2024 launch. Those submitted by the end of 2023 will go into space on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which should enter Jupiter’s orbit in 2030.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/11/19/nasa-name-in-space-europa/

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Funny Road Signs

From Bored Panda -

https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-puns-public-signs/?utm_source=smartnews&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=organic

Saturday, August 26, 2023

Meet Dasia Taylor, Student Scientist

https://youtu.be/ERQjWFTyouw?si=wdfL4VQD6awaShyU

Some Truth From Ray Allen

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Ray Allen (@trayfour)

The Servers All Have Dementia at The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders in Tokyo

An excerpt from NPR -

It was founded as a way to raise awareness and celebrate the quirks of living with dementia. Even though 37% of the orders are delivered wrong, 99% of customers are happy, the restaurant says.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/23/1195387866/the-servers-all-have-dementia-at-the-restaurant-of-mistaken-orders-in-tokyo

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Righting a Wrong From So Long Ago

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

At last, a diploma for Black deaf students who set historic precedent

A court victory in 1952 allowed them to attend school in Washington. On Saturday, Gallaudet University finally gave them a diploma and an apology.

Perspective by Theresa Vargas

Janice Boyd Ruffin tears up after accepting a diploma on Saturday during a ceremony at
Gallaudet University honoring students who attended a segregated school
on the university's campus in the 1950s. (Minh Connors/The Washington Post)

Robbie D. Cheatham knew her worth. She also knew other people didn’t always see it.

“She had a lot of things that happened to her in life, really hard, hard stuff, because of being deaf, because of being Black, because of being a woman,” Cheatham’s daughter Krissi Spence told me. “She was so strong mentally and emotionally because she had to be. She had to fight.”

She had to fight in ways that Spence only fully realized after her mom’s death in December at the age of 86.

It was then that she learned Cheatham was part of a group of Black deaf students who weren’t allowed to attend the only school for deaf children in Washington, the city where they lived, until their families filed a class-action lawsuit in 1952. Then, despite a court victory, they weren’t treated the same as the White students who attended kindergarten through 12th grade at the Kendall School on Gallaudet’s campus. Black students were enrolled in the Kendall School Division II for Negroes. They were placed in a separate classroom with separate teachers, and when it came time for them to graduate, unlike their White peers, they weren’t given diplomas.

On Saturday, Gallaudet University held a poignant ceremony aimed at righting that wrong. Officials handed out diplomas for 24 Black deaf students who should have received them more than six decades earlier. Five of the six students who are still alive made it to the ceremony.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/22/deaf-black-gallaudet-diploma/