Tandy Freeman has been in the bull riding and rodeo world for over 20 years. Tandy Freeman was first awarded in 2011, the Jim Shoulder Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes a non-bull rider who has made a significant contribution to the sport. Since 1995, Dr. Tandy Freeman, the official on-site doctor for the PBR, has crisscrossed the country with the PBR’s Built Ford Tough Series, examining and treating athletes at every stop. He is also the Medical Director of Justin Sportsmedicine, which services the NFR. Freeman’s professional commitment and dedication to Western sports athletes have led to him receiving the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award in 2008 and being named the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Texas Circuit…
The Gamby Foundation was started in honor of the legacy that Geatano "Gamby" Gambardella left behind at the Little League and community of Rolando, California. Gamby started at Rolando Little League with his first son in 1954. He managed his second sons' team from 1968 - 1972, where his team won the Coast League the first time he ever managed a team. He remained active in the league as a manager in every division except T-Ball until 1990. While managing his teams, he was also active as a Field Director.…
Belle Boyd Isabelle Boyd, or Belle Boyd, was on the Confederate Army’s side during the Civil War (Belle Boyd, 2017). Boyd was born on May 9, 1844. Boyd’s parents owned and ran a general store in Berkeley County, Virginia. Boyd loved her home and the environment around her. At 12, she was sent to Mount Washington Academy until she was 16.…
Lucy Craft Laney was born April 13, 1854 in Macon, Georgia. She was the daughter of former slaves. She was taught to read by her mother as an adolescent. At the age of 15, she enrolled at Atlanta University, and then she graduated in 1873. From the university, she went to educate African Americans, and later, opened her own school in 1883.…
The New York Yankees on Sunday have reportedly agreed to hire the services of the seven-time All-Star and free-agent Matt Holliday by signing him with a one-year deal having a value of USD 13 million to play for the upcoming new season of the Major League Baseball (MLB). Basing from the report of the The Score, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was said to have agreed to give the 2007 National League batting champion the deal as the American baseball executive made his second major move of the winter. The native of Stillwater, Oklahoma spent the last eight seasons playing for the National League Central Division team St. Louis Cardinals, where he played almost exclusively in the left field position.…
Shawty Lo is an award winning, street rapper known for his counts of hit singles, albums and mixtapes. Rapper Shawty Lo was born Carlos Walker on March 26th, 1976 in Atlanta Georgia. Shawty Lo has been creating music since he was a child, and is considered among today's most talented rappers. He grew up in Bowen Homes projects, one of Atlanta’s poorest neighborhoods. His mother battled with a drug addiction leaving him to be raised by his grandmother.…
Eliza Pickeny was the daughter of George Lucas who was a British Army lieutenant-colonel and lieutenant governor of Antigua. They do not know that much about her mother. When she was young her father sent her to school which was odd for a women in that era of time. While her father was in the war she had to control the plantations that her farther owned. She teaches of the African American women to read and write so they can teach there kids.…
I was asked to write about a famous African-American so I chose Theodore Lawless. Theodore Lawless was born on Tue, 12-06-1892 and since then he has did a lot of different things so I had to narrow it down to the following dermatologist, philanthropist, and medical pioneer. He never actually invented something but he searched to cure leprosy he never found it although he did make several strides in the treatment of both leprosy and syphilis which will help so much more for future research. He attended Straight College in New Orleans, and went from there to Talladega College in Alabama in 1914 then attended University of Kansas Medical School and Northwestern University in Chicago, from which he received his MD in 1919 and an MS in 1920.…
Shelitha Jones is Admissions Rep II, she has worked for Texas Health Huguley since June of this year. She also serves as the Creation Health Representative for the Admissions dept. Shelitha is a graduate of Tarrant County College receiving her associates of Arts degree in May of this year, with an emphasis in communication. This wife and mother of ten was born in Marrero, La. Relocating to Texas shortly after Hurricane Katrina.…
Homer Plessy was a 30 years old mixed race ( 1/8 black and 7/8 white) man. He was born on March 17, 1862, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His imployment was a shoe maker. If you where to look at plessy you would be supprised that he was mixed raced. He was very light and to regular people he seemed white.…
HBCU’s is a tradition in her family because her father and sister attended some of them. Her major is Criminal Justice and she was inspired from watching Matlock with her dad as a child. She has three occupations that she wants to pursue in the near future. She wants to become a Criminal defense attorney, Federal Judge, Supreme Court…
As a state being described as a big-buckled outdoor ethic and intolerance of alternative lifestyles, as said by a New York Times reporter John M. Glionna, an older man named Sissy Goodwin defies these descriptions just be simply getting dressed each day. 67 year old male Sissy Goodwin is a cross-dressing cowboy from the state of Wyoming who likes to wear women's clothes, Sissy is one of many that defy what other people think about Wyoming. In the minds of people that don’t live in Wyoming, they see the state as a cowboy, farming, masculine, tough, and homophobic state. These things are simply not true about Wyoming, the state is just like other in ways of dress and actions. In some cases this can be true you walked downtown…
Belle Boyd: Paving the Way for Women for Centuries to Come “Perhaps Miss Boyd wasn’t beautiful, or as beautiful, physically, as some other women, yet there was something beautiful about her… something a man never forgot,” (Snow 90). Maria Isabella Boyd, was one of the most prominent spies for the Confederates during the Civil War. Although Miss Boyd was very young when she started her spying career, she was nothing short of a reputable spy. Throughout Boyd’s life, living as a spy, she was arrested a total of about seven times, but was only incarcerated twice. Boyd may not be the most appropriate model for young women today, but she helped her fellow Confederates in what they might have considered the most important ways.…
“Baloney I’m going to send you into the fields in two days with Tyrone.” grumbled my slave owner.(1)The declaration of independence is signed, Some states started to ban slavery. (4) It was 1855 when slve owners were sent to the fields. It was 1855 and my slave owner was going to send me to the cotton fields but I'm highly allergic to cotton.(4)…
Phyllis Wheatley Phyllis Wheatley was born in Senegal, Africa in about 1753, there is no official record of her birth. Phyllis was around the age of seven when she was brought into America as a slave. Phyllis lived her childhood and most of her short adult life as a slave to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the most amazing facts about Phyllis Wheatley is although she was a slave who was considered a child prodigy and because of this she was allowed an education that featured theology, philosophy, literature and history. Phyllis Wheatley’s occupation was slave, but her official occupation was poet.…