The Mutha Knows Show

FINAL BLACK HISTORY MONTH FACTS! 28.02.2025 4:24 ↓

Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson is indeed recognized as the first Black woman to earn a PhD from MIT, and her research in physics significantly contributed to the development of technologies like touch-tone dialing, caller ID, and call waiting, even though she may not be credited as the sole inventor of each specific feature; her work laid the groundwork for these advancements in telecommunications.  Fred...

Black History Month Spotlight - Hattie McDaniel, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier 27.02.2025 2:14 ↓

On March 24, 2002, Halle Berry becomes the first Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a struggling widow who falls in love with her husband’s death row executioner in Monster’s Ball. Before Berry, the only African American actress to win an Academy Award was Hattie McDaniel, who earned the statuette for her supporting role in 1939’s Gone With the Wind as Mammy.  At the Os...

Black History Month Spotlight Alexander Miles, Dr. G. Carter Woodson, Dr. Rebecaa Lee Crumpler, Stevie Wonder, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sor 25.02.2025 1:30 ↓

Dr. Rebecca Crumpler was the first African American woman to earn an M.D. degree. YEAR. 1883. Carter G. Woodson, a groundbreaking historian and Harvard alum, is known as the father of Black history. Alexander Miles invented the automatic elevator door system, which made elevators safer to ride.  Stevie Wonder's Innervisions is considered a significant album in Black history because it was the firs...

Black History Month Spotlight Garret Morgan, Sheryl Swoops, Alvin Ailey, Phillip B. Downing, Sheryl Swoops and Alvin Ailey American Dance 25.02.2025 1:30 ↓

Garrett Morgan invented an early version of the traffic light. In 1916, he patented a “safety hood,” a breathing device that protected miners and firefighters. His traffic light was patented in 1923 and eventually sold for $40,000 to General Electric. #BHM Philip B. Downing designed a metal box with four legs which he patented on October 27, 1891. He called his device a street letter box and it is...

Black History Month Spotlight Claudette Colvin 21.02.2025 1:33 ↓

Before Rosa Parks made history, there was Claudette Colvin. At age 15, on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman.

Black History Month Spotlight Sadie T. M. Alexander 20.02.2025 2:23 ↓

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the first Black woman to earn a PhD in the United States.

Black History Month Spotlight 14.02.2025 2:13 ↓

Maggie L. Walker made many achievements during her lifetime. In 1903, she became the first African-American woman to charter a bank and the first African-American woman to serve as a bank president. Thomas Jennings invented a process he called "dry-scouring," receiving a patent in 1821 and becoming the first African American to be granted a patent. His dry scouring process was a predecessor to tod...

Black History Month Spotlight Roxanne Shante 14.02.2025 0:52 ↓

On February 1st, the Recording Academy honored the pioneering Roxanne Shanté, with Lifetime Achievement Awards. As one of hip-hop’s first female rappers to gain widespread acclaim in the mid-1980s, Shanté’s sharp lyricism and fearless persona broke barriers in a male-dominated industry, paving the way for future generations of female MCs. Roxane Shante is Black History