Darisha Sims

Watched the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick? The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the black pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes. After 3 days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple, 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart, 1st Lieutenant James Harvey, and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. The official results for first place were recorded as “unknown” for nearly 46 years. There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues applauded this accomplishment. The victory was swept under the rug and the trophy ‘went missing’ and was not seen by the public for 55 years (until 2004). Introducing the real Top Guns. 73 years after the historic win, the American Association of Retired Persons’ Wish of a Lifetime organization met with Harvey to grant his “wish” – that his team be widely recognized.

🚨BREAKING: Caregiver SAT on 16-month-old Toddler K*LLING her on her FIRST DAY At Daycare While Scrolling On Phone! 📍North Carolina 30yo Alexandra Coffey at Creative Beginnings Daycare FORCED 16-month-old Maddy Mitchell face-down on a nap mat, threw a blanket over her head, and LAID HER FULL BODY ON TOP (torso & neck) while SCROLLING ON HER PHONE until the toddler’s legs stopped moving! Then she LEFT the helpless baby under that blanket for nearly 3 HOURS without checking. Maddy was found already in early rigor mortis. Medical examiner ruled it HOMICIDE by smothering + compression asphyxia. Coffey was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Maddy’s family just filed a wrongful death lawsuit against her. The entire daycare got shut down. How does a “caregiver” do this to an innocent baby on her very first day?!

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells. It also kills the immune cells that kill cancer cells. Most of oncology has accepted that trade-off. @DrPatrick never did. He built Anktiva, an IL-15 agonist that activates and expands your NK cells and T cells without triggering the suppressive cells that protect tumors. Saudi Arabia just approved it for lung cancer. First country in the world to do so. I've been using IL-15 intratumorally in combination with other immunotherapy agents for years. What Dr. Soon-Shiong is doing at the systemic level, we're doing at the tumor level. The future of cancer treatment isn't about finding better poisons. It's about unlocking what's already inside you.

🇺🇸 Noah, deux ans, a vaincu son cancer après avoir subi une greffe de foie. Pour son dernier jour à l'hôpital, il montre son « super pouvoir » au monde ! ❤

This is incredible. Meet Yelitsa Jean-Charles, founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, creating realistic, diverse Black and brown dolls. Growing up, she lacked confidence and damaged her hair using chemical treatments. Through her dolls, Yelitsa teaches Black children to embrace their natural hair.

@CJLawrenceEsq None, all savings go towards grease.

I wonder how Much money raising cane’s be saving by not using seasonings.

@flowidealism I think it's coming out of school able to think for yourself. Knowing enough to know what you don't know and knowing how to find the answers for yourself or how to get the resources you need. I also think it's being able to reason and articulate your viewpoints logically.

What actually counts as success in an educational context? I think the only meaningful answer is the student's lifelong happiness and well-being. Not their test scores at age sixteen. Not their college acceptance. Not their starting salary. Their actual lived experience of their one life. The ancient Greeks had a saying: judge no man happy until he dies. You don't know if a life went well until you can see the whole thing. My ideal evaluation would track flourishing decades down the road. Obviously, that's hard to measure. But it's the only metric that actually matters.

@punished_kace @Wulf__Sorenson @Big_Mck There are no poop skin people. Infrastructure is not White supremacy. Often, people of color are the ones who built it in the first place, regardless of who the majority race is.

This is how white people forge IQ statistics just to advance racial views and justify their weird ideologies.

🚨: 13-year-old Belgium boy was the first patient in the world to be cured of terminal brain cancer, in 2024!

“When K.J. Gross (left) died earlier this year, his best friend, Kaleb Klakulak, was devastated. And when Kaleb, now 12, learned that his friend’s mother couldn't afford a headstone, he decided to help. Kaleb sought out odd jobs and set up a PayPal account asking for donations. Eventually, Kaleb handed his friend’s mom, LaSondra Singleton, $900. “I cried because it was unexpected. I cried because I’m trying to figure out things from day to day,” said Singleton. “I can see his final resting place. I have a place I can go and be with him.” Credit : Kristy Hall

BREAKING: Hunter College Professor Allyson Friedman caught on HOT MIC dropping BLATANTLY RACIST comments about Black students! While a Black eighth-grade student testified against her school’s potential closure, Friedman was overheard saying: “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school.” She continued: “If you train a black person well enough, they’ll know to use the back. You don’t have to tell them anymore.” Friedman later apologized, stating the views are not her own and she fully supports the students fighting school closures. The kids on the Zoom call were STUNNED. NYC officials called this abhorrent, blatantly racist, and despicable — especially with children testifying.

This is Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been imprisoned by ICE for a year. He was about to get new prosthetic legs when he was kidnapped… and they won’t let him have them. His health is declining & there’s been almost no media coverage. No protests. No noise.

Did you watch the movie?

Sanité Bélair (1781–1802) was a Haitian revolutionary and lieutenant in Toussaint Louverture’s army. Rising from sergeant, she helped lead uprisings of enslaved people in the fight for Haiti’s freedom and independence. Born Suzanne Bélair in the late 1700s in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), she lived during a time when the colony was one of the richest in the world, built on the forced labor of enslaved Africans. But beneath that wealth was a growing resistance, and Bélair would become one of the people who helped turn that resistance into a movement for freedom. She joined the revolutionary struggle alongside her husband, Charles Bélair, and quickly distinguished herself through discipline, leadership, and courage. Rising from sergeant to lieutenant in the army of Toussaint Louverture, she became part of the organized fight to end slavery and secure autonomy for the people of the colony. At a time when women were rarely recognized as military leaders, Bélair was not simply present — she was trusted with responsibility and command. Historical accounts describe her as determined and principled, someone who believed deeply in the cause she served. When French forces attempted to reassert control over the colony in the early 1800s, Bélair continued to stand with the revolutionary side during one of the most uncertain phases of the struggle. In 1802, she was captured by French troops. She was sentenced to death, but even in her final moments she is remembered for her composure and resolve. Stories passed down through Haitian history say she refused to be blindfolded, choosing instead to face what was coming with dignity. Whether retold through oral tradition or written record, the message is consistent: she remained unshaken in her belief in freedom. Today, Sanité Bélair is honored as one of Haiti’s revolutionary heroines. Her image has appeared on Haitian currency, and artists, historians, and educators continue working to ensure her story is remembered. She represents the many women whose contributions to liberation struggles were real, powerful, and essential — even if history did not always give them equal space.

BREAKING: Jayden Bailey, a 17-year-old student athlete at Lebanon High School, died after being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, several years ago. Bailey, a 6-foot-6 junior power forward, was diagnosed with the type of bone cancer in June 2022. His left arm was amputated as a result of the cancer in August 2025. After doctors thought he was cancer-free, the disease spread to his stomach in October 2025. Still, he kept playing basketball and attending classes while inspiring those not only at Lebanon High, but the Tennessee high school basketball community. Bailey was honored by the Lebanon City Council days prior to his death with a proclamation of “Jayden Bailey Day.” He was eventually forced to stop playing and going to school because his body was breaking down, his basketball coach, Jim McDowell said. R.I.P. Jayden Bailey ❤️🙏

For 25 years, Carl Allamby spent his days under car hoods in Cleveland, running an auto repair shop, fixing engines, paying bills, and supporting a family. Medicine was a childhood dream, but like many dreams, it was shelved early — replaced by responsibility, practicality, and survival. Then, in his mid-40s, he made a decision most people quietly talk themselves out of. Carl went back to college. While still working and managing his business, he took pre-med classes, volunteered in hospitals, and studied alongside students young enough to be his children. There was no fast track and no inspirational shortcut — just long nights, financial strain, and the uncomfortable reality of starting over from the bottom. He wasn’t chasing status or a title. He was finishing something he never closed. Carl entered medical school and graduated at age 47. After that came residency — one of the most demanding stretches in medicine. Years later, at 51, he reached the goal he had carried since childhood, becoming an emergency medicine physician with the Cleveland Clinic system. In interviews with major outlets, Carl has said growing up with economic hardship shaped how he treats patients — especially in the emergency room, where fear, pain, and uncertainty arrive long before answers do. The life he lived before medicine didn’t disappear. It followed him into every exam room. Friends, this isn’t a story about late success. It’s about refusing to let practicality permanently silence a calling. Some dreams don’t fade. They wait until you’re finally willing to return to them. Credit: Family and Cleveland Clinic Photography, Carl Allamby / Instagram

Dr. Justina Ford’s courage changed Colorado forever. Denied her license because of her race, she still became the first Black woman to become a licensed doctor in Colorado, delivering over 7,000 babies. During Black History Month, we honor her life and legacy.

Ellen Elgin might be completely unknown if not for her testimony in a D.C. paper. Elgin was an African American inventor born around 1849 in Washington, D.C. She worked as a housekeeper and clerk. In August 1888, she patented an improved clothes wringer—a hand-cranked device with two rollers that squeezed excess water from freshly washed clothes, making them dry faster. It had great financial success, but she didn’t reap the profits, she sold the rights for $18. Elgin knew that her product wouldn't be purchased knowing that a Black woman invented it so she sold the rights to a white agent for just $18. She didn’t profit further from it. File it away as more generational wealth stolen from a Black generation. #BlackHistoryWithLana #DemsUnited

Chalk one up for the people! A Dollar General cashier in Tennessee, Linda Atkins, who has diabetes, was fired after drinking a bottle of orange juice during a low blood sugar emergency. Atkins had previously asked her manager for permission to keep orange juice at her register in case of hypoglycemia, but the request was denied. While working alone, she began experiencing symptoms of dangerously low blood sugar and drank a $1.69 bottle of orange juice from the store cooler to stabilize herself. She paid for it immediately afterward and informed her supervisor. Despite this, she was terminated for violating the company’s “grazing” policy, which prohibits employees from consuming merchandise before purchase. Atkins filed a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), arguing that the company failed to provide reasonable accommodation for her medical condition. A federal jury agreed and awarded her $277,565 in damages, recognizing that her dismissal was unlawful.