Source: The Back-Flipping Black Figure Skater Who Changed the Sport Forever | The New Republic
My Comments: Surya is truly one of the bravest and most wonderful person of our life time. At the end of the day she played by her rules and we (I) love her for it.
My Comments: Recently came across this poem alluded to in a post. It rings so true in so many ways in the lives of us all, especially brothers and sister of the darker hue. Dunbar’s poem travel through time today as in his time. How long will we have to bear the burden of such guile…how long?
For too long, after tragedies like Charleston, black America has had to mute our unspoken anger. We must be able to express it, and white America must confront the residual racism that still persists in our society.
Source: Black America has been playing by white America’s rules…
My Comments: A very powerful essay by Mr. Wade. Thank you sir.
Trained in Jamaica, ranked 102nd in the world, Brown pulled off a major upset of the two-time champion Nadal.
He was trained in his father’s home country of Jamaica, but now plays for his mother’s native Germany, according to The Independent. Today, Dustin Brown, ranked 102nd in the world, is celebrating a stunner in the tennis world, knocking out two-time Wimbledon champ Rafael Nadal in four sets: 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. It’s the first time in years that Nadal has been sent home in the first week of the tournament.
Source: Dustin Brown Stuns Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon
My Comments: Awesome Sauce! Dustin playing pretty inspired tennis and getting it done against Raffie on match day 4 at Wimbledon .
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7 from Pad 39A, Kennedy Space Center. One of her jobs was to call out “Roll program” seven seconds after launch. “I’ll guarantee that those were the hardest words I ever had to get out of my mouth,” she said later.
Source: Through the Clouds | NASA
My Comments: Awesome View!
This galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void.
Most galaxies are clumped together in groups or clusters. A neighboring galaxy is never far away. But this galaxy, known as NGC 6503, has found itself in a lonely position, at the edge of a strangely empty patch of space called the Local Void.
The Local Void is a huge stretch of space that is at least 150 million light-years across. It seems completely empty of stars or galaxies. The galaxy’s odd location on the edge of this never-land led stargazer Stephen James O’Meara to dub it the “Lost-In-Space galaxy” in his 2007 book, Hidden Treasures.
Source: Lonely Galaxy Lost in Space | NASA
My Comments: I am always just awed by the powerful views from space. Check these out.
