LUV SUX
by: Ebony Stewart
Release Date: February 13, 2011

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Know Your History: African American skin have larger melanosomes (cells that determine skin color) and the melanosomes contain more of the pigment melanin than those found in other skin. Because of the protective effect of melanin, African-Americans are better protected against skin cancer and premature wrinkling from sun exposure. It is well known that melanin in brown skin provides protection from the ravages of aging due to ultraviolet light (UVL). In fact, the melanin in African American skin provides a natural sun protection factor (SPF) of about 13.4 as compared to 3.4 in other skin. Therefore, melanin in the skin of African Americans accounts for the fact that they often appear younger.

Know Your History: In 1773 Phillis Wheatley's book Poems on Various Subjects and Morals is published making her the first to ever African American do so.

Know your history: Sophia Stewart (a black woman), Mother of the Matrix as she is affectionately known, wrote her Epic The Third Eye while she was still in college. This ingenuous work, copy written since 1981, is the foundation and contains the core elements of the blockbuster films: The Terminator and The Matrix.

See more at: http://immigrantwomeninfo.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/author-of-the-matrix-a-black-woman/

Happy First Day of Black History Month to Everyone!

I will be dedicating each day to Black History Month by providing information about the great ones that have come before us and those who are up and coming. I mean, February is the shortest month of the year, but what difference does that make? Why not get and give more about our history?

Know your history: Egypt was the greatest educational center in the ancient world. Black Egyptians (such as Imhotep) educated the Greeks. Black Egyptian priests taught the best minds of Europe; Plato, Thales, Aristotle, Democritus, Anaximander, Solon and others.