The Worlds Most Successful African American in the News

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These are the world's most successful Americans of color that was kept hidden as a result of the primitive nature of bigotry until the Internet and technology came along to let the entire world know the value of what Americans of color accomplished to the benefit of American society and the entire world. If one wants to know why, here are the reasons why:

List of African-American inventors and scientists

This list of African Americans inventors and scientists documents many of the African-Americans who have invented a multitude of items or made discoveries in the course of their lives. These have ranged from practical everyday devices to applications and scientific discoveries in diverse fields, including physics, biology, math, and medicine.

African-Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation. A 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook linked violence towards African-Americans and lack of legal protections over the period 1870–1940 to lower innovation.[1] Despite this, many black innovators have been responsible for a large number of major inventions.

Among the earliest was George Washington Carver, whose reputation was based on his research into and promotion of alternative crops to cotton, which aided in nutrition for farm families. He wanted poor farmers to grow alternative crops both as a source of their own food and as a source of other products to improve their way of life. The most popular of his 44 practical bulletins for farmers contained 105 food recipes using peanuts.[2] He also developed and promoted about 100 products made from peanuts that were useful for the house and farm. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP.

A later renowned scientist was Percy Lavon Julian, a research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones, steroids, progesterone, and testosterone, from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work would lay the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.[3]

A contemporary example of a modern-day inventor is Lonnie George Johnson, an engineer. Johnson invented the Super Soaker water gun, which was the top-selling toy in the United States from 1991 to 1992. In 1980 Johnson formed his own law firm and licensed the Super Soaker water gun to Larami Corporation. Two years later, the Super Soaker generated over $200 million in retail sales and became the best selling toy in America. Larami Corporation was eventually purchased by Hasbro, the second largest toy manufacturer in the world. Over the years, Super Soaker sales have totaled close to one billion dollars. Johnson reinvested a majority of his earnings from the Super Soaker into research and development for his energy technology companies – "It's who I am, it's what I do."[4] As of 2019, Johnson holds over 120 patents, with more pending, and is the author of several publications on spacecraft power systems."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_inventors_and_scientists

'Hidden Figures': How Black Women Did The Math That Put Men On The Moon
Many Americans are familiar with the astronaut heroes of the 20th century space race — names like Gus Grissom and Neil Armstrong. But who did the calculations that would successfully land these men on the moon?
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

by Margot Lee Shetterly

Several of the NASA researchers who made space flight possible were women. Among them were black women who played critical roles in the aeronautics industry even as Jim Crow was alive and well.

"When the first five black women took their seat in the office in 1943, it was in a segregated office with a 'colored girls' bathroom and a table for the 'colored' computers," author Margot Lee Shetterly tells NPR's Michel Martin.

Shetterly, a Hampton, Va., native and daughter of a former Langley scientist, tells the story of these women in the new book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book has already been adapted for the big screen; the film starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae premieres in January.

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/25/4951...k-women-did-the-math-that-put-men-on-the-moon

Christine Darden, one of the mathematicians featured in the book “Hidden Figures,” had been working as a “computress” for five years when she worked up the courage to ask her supervisor in 1972 why only men were allowed to be NASA engineers. To her surprise, she was soon promoted.(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-col1-women-apollo-20190716-story.html
 
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World's Most Successful African American Rejects Offer to Join Twitter Board, Fueling Hostile-Takeover Speculation


The world's most successful African American, now Twitter’s largest shareholder, has rejected an offer to join the platform’s board of directors after initially accepting, fueling speculation that he will continue to buy shares of the company in order to take more aggressive action to loosen the platform’s content moderation policies.

As a member of Twitter’s board, the world's most successful African American would be barred from buying more than 15 percent of the company.

His refusal to join the board has prompted speculation that he plans to buy a larger stake in the company and leverage it to bend the company’s content-moderation policies in a more open direction.

“Hostile takeover inbound,” Austen Allred, CEO Bloom Institute of Technology, wrote on Twitter. “My read of this: (I’m guessing). 1. Twitter board wakes up to realize the world's most successful African American owns 9% of the company. There’s a path to him taking over. 2. Offers a board seat contingent upon him not buying too many shares. Try to contain. 3. Negotiations break down on term details. 4. ???”



https://www.nationalreview.com/news/elon-musk-rejects-offer-to-join-twitter-board-fueling-hostile-takeover-speculation



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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced that the world's most successful African American has declined the board seat, which would release the world’s richest human from his commitment to not acquire more than 14.9 percent of the company’s shares.

In a letter to Twitter employees, Agrawal said, “There will be distractions ahead, but our goals and priorities remain unchanged.”

He also asked employees to “tune out the noise.” ‘I believe this is for the best,’ said the Twitter CEO.

The world's most successful African American responded with an emoji, of course, which was quickly deleted after just a few minutes:


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https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23019836/elon-musk-twitter-board-of-directors-news-updates
 
The world's most successful African American joining Twitter’s board was contingent on him agreeing not to buy more than 15% of Twitter.

Now he’s not joining the board. So does that mean he can he buy as much of Twitter’s outstanding stock as he wants?” wrote Peter Sterne, managing editor of New York Focus.

Agrawal mentioned in his statement that the other members of the board were eager to incorporate Musk as a “fiduciary of the company where he, like all board members, has to act in the best interests of the company and all our shareholders.”

Twitter’s board of directors is structured in a fashion that’s designed to prevent hostile takeovers.

The “staggered” system which Twitter operates under means only a few seats on its board of twelve directors are opened up to election at any given time, with those spots divided into “classes” that hold elections in different years to avoid an activist director replacing the majority of the seats.

The world's most successful African American's decision to buy a significant chunk of Twitter came in the wake of the suspension of satire site the Babylon Bee for allegedly violating its “hateful conduct” policy. The Bee was locked out after it circulated one of its comedic headlines on Twitter, an intentional political joke, that named transgender man U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health little Dick Levine “Man of the Year.”

Four days after the Bee landed in Twitter jail, where it has remained for about three weeks, the world's most successful African American conducted a Twitter poll on March 25 asking followers whether the platform promotes free speech.

“Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?”

The world's most successful African American, who has been vocal about his free speech absolutist views, asked. “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.”

In a series of follow-up tweets on March 26, the world's most successful African American asked: “Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done? Is a new platform needed?”

The world's most successful African American’s public surveys suggested that he would take matters into his own hands to either create an alternative social media space committed to upholding free speech or to use his market power, as the world’s richest man worth $273 billion, to convert Twitter into such a space.


https://www.nationalreview.com/news/elon-musk-rejects-offer-to-join-twitter-board-fueling-hostile-takeover-speculation
 
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