Monday, August 03, 2009

Great pink news


Great pink news, originally uploaded by ujima.

Received a phone call saying that my recent mammogram shows I'm breast cancer free for another year!! Huzzah!!
August 3 The Nobel Prize and its awards to Africans and African-Americans are a topic on this dates Registry. An African American from Detroit, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was the first black man to receive the distinguished prize for his work as a United Nations mediator in 1950. Ten other remarkable Blacks have received a Nobel: Albert John Luthuli, 1960 Peace Prize; Martin Luther King Jr., 1964 Peace Prize; Sir William Arthur Lewis, 1979 Economics Prize; Bishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Peace Prize; Wole Soyinka, 1986 Literature Prize; Derek Walcott, 1992 Literature Prize; Toni Morrison, 1993 Literature Prize; Nelson Mandela, 1993 Peace Prize, Kofi Annan 2001 Peace Prize and Wangari Maathai, 2004.

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