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Tag: Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Roundup
Pioneering Black NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Dies
Pioneering Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson died on Monday. She was 101, reported the Associated Press. Johnson was one of the “computers” who solved equations by hand during NASA’s early years and those of its precursor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. She calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions. […]
February 24, 2020
News Roundup
Civil Rights Activist to Speak at Shenandoah University
On Monday, Sept. 10 American feminist, leader and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta will hold an hour-long presentation discussing her life at Shenandoah University. The event will be held at 2 p.m. in Stimpson Auditorium and is free and open to the public, according to Shenandoah University News. “She’s on the level of Cesar Chávez […]
September 6, 2018
News Roundup
Renowned Evangelist Billy Graham Dies at 99
MONTREAT, N.C. – The Rev. Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, has died. Spokesman Mark DeMoss says Graham, who long suffered from cancer, pneumonia and other ailments, died at his home in North Carolina on […]
February 21, 2018
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