Let's Talk About It with Jenny White/African Americans making history pt. 2

This Friday we will be celebrating not only those African Americans who have made history in the past but also who are making history now.

We will celebrate Sophia Danenberg who is the first Black mountain climber to reach the top of Mount Everest.  She is a Harvard grad and a Fulbright Fellow who started mountain climbing in 1999. She scaled mountains around the world before her epic two month climb of Mount Everest in 2006.  She pitched her own tent, carried her own gear, battled bronchitis, frostbite, and a storm, but she made it!

We will also celebrate a mathematician who helped develop G.P.S. technology. Her name is Gladys West. She graduated from Virginia Tech University on a full academic scholarship where she received her Master's Degree.  She is the second Black woman to join the Dolvan Virginia Naval Base where she spent 42 years developing the G.P.S. technology that today is used by everyone everywhere from N.A.S.A. and the military to your phone, your car and your social media.

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