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03/01/2026

02/15/2026

Edward Marion Augustus Chandler was born on April 10, 1887, in Ocala, Florida, and went on to become one of America’s earliest African American pioneers in chemistry. Growing up in the Jim Crow South, Chandler chose a path of intellectual rigor in a time when scientific careers were largely inaccessible to people of color—making his pursuit of advanced education itself an act of quiet courage.

His academic journey was extraordinary. Chandler earned his A.B. from Howard University in 1913, followed by an M.S. in chemistry from Clark University in 1914. He then completed his Ph.D. in chemistry at University of Illinois in 1917 under renowned organic chemist Roger Adams. With this achievement, Chandler became the second African American in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry, a milestone reached when most graduate laboratories were closed to Black scholars.

Chandler’s early professional career unfolded in industry, where he applied his advanced training to real-world problems in dyes, pharmaceuticals, and explosives. From 1917 to 1921, he worked as a chemist at Dicks, David & Heller Company, specializing in triphenylmethane dyes and other organic compounds. He then served from 1921 to 1924 as a plant chemist at Abbott Laboratories, contributing to synthetic drug development and industrial chemical processes. At a time when African Americans were rarely hired into technical roles, Chandler was already helping shape modern chemical manufacturing.

The game-changing moment came in 1945, when Chandler was invited to join the founding faculty of Roosevelt University (then Roosevelt College), one of the nation’s first intentionally racially integrated higher-education institutions. Over the next twenty years, he helped build a rigorous chemistry program grounded not only in scientific excellence, but also in social justice and inclusion. Chandler’s legacy isn’t defined by a single invention, but defined by sustained impact: earning elite degrees when doors were closed, advancing industry science, and helping create academic spaces where future generations could thrive. His life reminds us that progress often comes through steady brilliance…showing up, mastering your craft, and creating opportunity where none previously existed.

02/15/2026

02/14/2026

Oh look. It’s the “do your own research” crowd again.

Doctors.
You know — the people who went to school longer than most of these clowns have been sober — say vaccines protect kids from actual, measurable, documented diseases.

Meanwhile, a silver-spoon chaos goblin who treats public health like it’s a podcast conspiracy segment thinks 5G is hiding in your toddler’s bloodstream like it’s a Verizon commercial.

We eradicated polio.
We crushed measles.
We turned smallpox into a history lesson.

And now we’re back to debating WiFi blood.

Here’s the wild part:
The same folks screaming about “toxins” will pound energy drinks, inhale unregulated supplements from a dude on Instagram, and trust a meme over peer-reviewed data.

You don’t have to like pharmaceutical companies.
You don’t have to worship government agencies.
But pretending Facebook University outranks medical science is how kids end up back in iron lungs.

This isn’t “both sides.”
This is expertise vs. vibes.

And if you’re confused about who to trust?
Maybe start with the people who don’t think cell towers are hiding in syringes.

Just a thought.

02/14/2026

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02/14/2026

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02/14/2026

4,000 years ago in ancient Kemet.