June, 2012

The Men of the Tenth Inc. Teaching the Truth to the Youth

June 2012

Behaving Better By Shaquille O’Neal One of the things that must happen in our community, as we advance to a new century and especially a new millennium, is a renewed commitment…a commitment to our families, others, and ourselves. A commitment to promote those ideas and values that take us back. Back to the time and place where we believed that we were the keepers of our brothers’ history. We must believe that the investments we make into out community today will yield successful returns for those who come after us.

There is no magical formula to making Black America better. In order for us to be better, we must act better. Better toward our families, others, and ourselves.

(Excerpt from How To Make Black America Better)

Hip-Hop Quote of The Month They

said I couldn't play football I was too small.

They say I couldn't play basketball I wasn't tall.

They say I could'nt play baseball at all.

And now everyday of my life I ball.

From, Rick Ross- Luxury Tax

America’s First Black Nurse: The Life of Mary Mahoney At one time, there were no Black nurses in America. However, in 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney became the very first. She began nurses’ training when she was thirty-three years old. And, she continued her work as a nurse for more than forty years.

Mary Eliza was born in 1845 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, now a part of Boston. She was the eldest of three children born to Charles and Mary Jane Stewart Mahoney.

As a young woman, Mary worked at the New England Hospital for Women and Children as a maid. In 1873, Linda Richards graduated from the hospital as the first trained nurse in the United States. It was then that Mary Mahoney decided that she wanted to become a nurse.

In 1878, out of forty women who applied for enrollment at the New England Hospital, only 18 were accepted for training. Of the 18 accepted, nine continued their studies, and four actually graduated. Mary was one of them. She had spent twelve months in the hospital wards learning all the details of nursing care.

Mary’s studies included attending classes in surgery, medicine, and patient and child care. She spent the last four months of her nurses’ training in private homes. For this, she was paid $3.00 per week. Mary was an excellent student and graduated in 1879.

Her record later encouraged other Blacks to enroll at the hospital . By 1899, the New England Hospital had graduated five other Black nurses.

Although small in size, weighing less than 100 pounds, Mary Mahoney was a very skillful and able worker. Even though she was an excellent nurse, she still had a very hard time being hired by a hospital. At the time, hospitals would not hire a Black nurse. So, she often had to work as a private-duty nurse for the richest families in Boston.

Though active in several organizations, in 1908, Mary Mohoney was directly involved in the forming of an all-Black nursing association. This group was called the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. Mary also supported women’s rights.

After women received the right to vote, she was one of the first women to register.

Mary Eliza Mahoney died at the New England Hospital for Women and Children on January 4, 1926. She was 81 years old. In 1936, the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses established the Mary Mahoney Award.

This medal is for outstanding service. Black nurses were allowed to join this national organization in 1951.

Mary Eliza Mahone was a Black American nursing pioneer. Because of her, there are thousands of Black Americans in the nursing profession.

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We Can Be Great By: Jesse Jackson, Sr. I’m a Baptist preacher and so we start low and rise slow. Rise high, strike fire, and sit down. I think that, if I can take a step back, why have the Williams sisters and Tiger Woods and football, basketball, baseball, track, boxing, why are we superior in those areas, with the least amount of equipment with which to practice?

Now, we have seen so many great athletes lately, we act as if it’s natural and not honed science and skill. When you run up and down the basketball court full speed and you have many options and you make the right option, hoist a ball through a cylinder, you’re making some geometric decisions. Very scientific.

Everybody can’t do it. We’re the best in the world at applied geometry on that court. Even we have become accustomed to seeing it as natural as opposed to a work ethic. Why are we the best at that? Because whenever the playing field is even, and the rules are public, and the goals are clear, we excel.

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