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In July, Douglas competed at the U.S. Classic and finished second in the all-around behind 2-time World All-Around Champion Simone Biles and ahead of Maggie Nichols with a score of 60.500. She had a consistent night hitting clean routines. She placed second on uneven bars behind Madison Kocian and ahead of Bailie Key w... |
On August 13 & 15, Douglas competed at the P&G Championships Indianapolis, Indiana, where she placed 5th overall with a score of 117.950, placing behind Simone Biles, Maggie Nichols, Aly Raisman, and Bailie Key. |
Douglas started Night 1 on vault and despite a hop backwards on her double-twisting Yurchenko vault, she scored a 15.150. On bars, she had a high-flying piked Tkachev connected to her Pak Salto and had an excellent landing on her double layout dismount. She scored a 15.300 on bars. On beam, she had a shaky routine with... |
Douglas was named to the Senior National Team for the first time since 2012 and received an invite to the 2015 Worlds Selection Camp in September. On October 8, 2015, it was announced that Douglas had been selected as a member of the 2015 US Women's World Championship team. |
At the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, Douglas shared in the team gold medal won by the U.S. She also qualified for the individual all-around in 3rd place, and to the uneven bars final in 6th place. Douglas won the silver in the all-around, becoming the first reigning Olympic all-arou... |
On November 13, 2015, "The Columbus Dispatch" revealed that Douglas would participate in the 2016 AT&T American Cup, in Newark, New Jersey. It was confirmed on December 17, 2015. |
In March 2016, following her win at the 2016 AT&T American Cup, Douglas participated at the 2016 City of Jesolo Trophy, where she won the all-around title. |
Douglas competed at the 2016 Secret US Classic in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 4. She did not compete in the all-around competition, which was won by Fierce Five teammate Aly Raisman. Douglas competed on UB and BB, scoring a 15.650 on UB to finish in 3rd behind Ashton Locklear and Madison Kocian on that event. On the... |
On June 24 and 26, Douglas competed at the P&G Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. On Night 1, she scored a 14.800 on vault, a 15.100 on uneven bars, a 14.200 on balance beam, and a 14.800 on floor exercise. On Night 2, she scored a 14.900 on vault, a 14.500 on uneven bars, a 15.050 on balance beam, and a 14.450 on f... |
On July 10, Douglas was named to the team for the 2016 Olympics, alongside Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Aly Raisman. She and Raisman became part of a select group of American gymnasts including Miller and Dawes to compete in two Olympics. |
On July 11, Mattel, Inc. released a "Gymnast Barbie" doll modeled after Douglas. |
On August 7, Douglas competed in the Women's Qualification at the 2016 Summer Olympics at the HSBC Arena (Arena Olimpica de Rio) in Rio de Janeiro. She scored a 15.166 on the vault, a 15.766 on the uneven bars, a 14.833 on the balance beam, and a 14.366 on the floor exercise. Along with the team final, she individually... |
Douglas helped the United States win a second consecutive gold medal in the team event, which was also her third Olympic gold medal. When the team final scores were announced, Douglas and her teammates called themselves the "Final Five" in honor of coach Marta Karolyi's retirement and the team size being reduced to fou... |
Douglas finished seventh in the uneven bars event final. |
In December 2012, the Associated Press named Douglas the Female Athlete of the Year. She became the fourth gymnast to receive the honor. |
Douglas was a nominee for the Laureus World Sports Award for Breakthrough of the Year. In June 2013, Douglas received two BET Awards for her accomplishments. |
In July 2012, Douglas and her teammates were featured on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" "Olympic Preview" issue, the first time an entire Olympic gymnastics team had been featured on the cover of the magazine. On July 20, Douglas was on one of five "Time" magazine Olympic covers. |
On August 3, the Kellogg Company announced that it would put a picture of Douglas standing on the podium with her gold medal on special-edition boxes of corn flakes, breaking the tradition of Olympic athletes appearing on Wheaties boxes. |
On August 23, Douglas threw the ceremonial pitch at Citi Field when the Colorado Rockies played the New York Mets. |
On August 26, Douglas spoke about racist bullying at Excalibur Gymnastics in an interview with Oprah Winfrey and how it nearly made her quit the sport. She described an incident in which she had heard other girls at the gym say, "Why doesn't Gabby do it? She's our slave," when chalk was needed to be scraped off the bar... |
In September 2012, Nintendo announced that Douglas would be part of a new ad campaign for "New Super Mario Bros. 2". On September 4, Douglas led the Pledge of Allegiance at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
In December 2012, Douglas released her autobiography, "Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith". The book debuted at number four on "The New York Times" Young Adult Bestseller List. That same month, she performed a miniature floor routine at the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards as part of the live performance by Alicia Key... |
Douglas had a small acting role on the Disney XD series "Kickin It" in the episode "Gabby's Gold", which aired on August 12, 2013. |
"The Gabby Douglas Story" aired on Lifetime on February 1, 2014, starring Imani Hakim. Douglas performed all the gymnastic stunts herself. In 2015, it was announced that a reality television show for the Oxygen channel had been commissioned to follow Douglas and her family's life, issued under the working title "Dougla... |
In 2017, she went public about having been sexually abused as a teenager by Larry Nassar, a former doctor for USA Gymnastics. |
Douglas appeared as the boss in an episode of "Undercover Boss" that first aired on May 11, 2018. |
Gymnastic equipment used by Douglas at the 2012 Summer Olympics is at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. |
In 2020, Douglas competed on "The Masked Singer" spin-off "The Masked Dancer" as "Cotton Candy" and was declared the winner of the season. |
Douglas is most well known for her high-flying release skills on the uneven bars (hence her nickname "The Flying Squirrel"), her resilient demeanor, and her upbeat floor exercise routines. The following routines are those that were performed by Douglas at either an Olympic or a World Championships competition. |
Carl Anthony (born February 8, 1939) is an American architect, regional planner, social justice activist, and author. He is the founder and co-director of Breakthrough Communities, a project dedicated to building multiracial leadership for sustainable communities in California and the rest of the nation. He is the form... |
Carl Anthony was born in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA known as Black Bottom. His parents, Lewis Anthony (born William Edwards) and Mildred Anthony (née Cokine), sent Carl and his older brother Lewie to B.B. Comegys, an integrated elementary school in which only about a dozen of the ... |
Anthony graduated from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in 1969. Upon his graduation, he was awarded the William Kinne Fellowship, a grant to enrich students’ education through travel. Anthony visited traditional towns and villages in West Africa, studying the ways in whic... |
Early Career: Architect’s Renewal Committee and UC Berkeley. |
Anthony began his professional career in the late 1960s at the Architect's Renewal Committee in Harlem, one of the first community design centers in the United States. Upon his return to the United States from West Africa in 1971, he relocated to California and taught at the University of California, Berkeley as an Ass... |
In 2000, Anthony joined the Ford Foundation. There, he served as Acting Director of the Community and Resource Development Unit. He was also Director of the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities Initiative for seven years, and funded the Conversation of Regional Equity, a dialogue between policy analysts and advocates c... |
In 2008, Anthony co-founded Breakthrough Communities, a project of Earth House Center, an advocacy nonprofit for regional equity and environmental and climate justice and is serving as the co-director. Anthony founded Six Wins, an initiative in the Bay Area addressing the mitigation of carbon dioxide emissions. |
"The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race" (2017). |
Anthony's memoir, "The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race", addresses regional equity and climate change. |
David Aldridge (born February 10, 1965) is an American sports journalist who works as a writer for "The Athletic". He was previously a reporter for Turner Sports, contributing to their NBA and MLB coverage. Other outlets that Aldridge has written and contributed for include ESPN, NBA TV, NBA.com, "The Washington Post",... |
Aldridge is a graduate of DeMatha Catholic High School and American University and worked as a writer for "The Washington Post", where he spent nine years. During that time Aldridge was a beat writer covering Georgetown University basketball, the Washington Bullets, and the Washington Redskins. He also covered the 1992... |
Before joining TNT in 2004, Aldridge reported for ESPN for eight years, primarily covering the NBA while occasionally doing NFL pieces. He wrote for ESPN.com and contributed to ESPN Radio. Aldridge frequently appeared on SportsCenter as well as "NBA 2 Night" (now "NBA Fastbreak") and "NBA Today." Aldridge conducted int... |
Aldridge worked at "The Philadelphia Inquirer" from 2004 to 2008, covering the National Football League and National Basketball Association as a reporter and columnist. He was part of the "Inquirer" team that received a second-place award for the series "The Future of Pro Sports" in 2005 from the Society of Professiona... |
He worked as the "Insider" for TNT's "Inside the NBA" and did sideline reporting work during the regular season, All-Star Weekend and the NBA playoffs. He was also co-host of the weekly show "The Beat" on NBA TV, and was a commentator for other "NBA on TNT" features. He also worked as a sideline reporter for television... |
From February 2007 through June 2008, Aldridge appeared on "The Tony Kornheiser Show" on Washington Post Radio and later WWWT in Washington, D.C. as co-host. He returned as sometime co-host of the latest incarnation on WTEM in September 2009. As of 2016, he is a regular co-host on the show. |
In late 2018, Aldridge left Turner Sports to join the staff of "The Athletic" as a writer. |
Kyle John Baker (born 1965) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series "Plastic Man". |
Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work in the comics field. |
Kyle Baker was born in the Queens, New York City, the son of art director John M. Baker and high-school audiovisual-department manager Eleanor L. Baker. He has a brother and a sister. Their parents had both attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and their father, who, Baker said, "worked in advertising [and] m... |
Other influences included the Charlton Comics artwork of Jim Aparo and Steve Ditko. |
Baker's first credited work at Marvel is penciling the half-page entry "Kid Commandos" in "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe" #13 (February1984). After a handful of inking assignments on issues of "Transformers", "The Avengers Annual" #14 (1985) and elsewhere, Baker made his professional story-illustration d... |
During this time, Baker also attempted to sell humor spot illustrations, but was rejected by the major newspaper syndicates. Jim Salicrup, a Marvel editor, did commission him "to write a few one-panel gags about [the superhero team] the X-Men", titled "It's Genetic" and appearing in the Marvel-produced fan magazine "Ma... |
At the recommendation of freelance artist Ron Fontes, an editor at the Dolphin imprint of the publishing house Doubleday expressed interest in Baker's sample strips of the character Cowboy Wally, "and asked if I had any more. I lied and said I did." This led to the 128-page graphic novel "Cowboy Wally". "The character ... |
Baker went on to draw DC's 1980s comics revival of the pulp fiction hero "The Shadow", beginning with "The Shadow Annual" #2 (1988), followed by the monthly series from issue #7 to the final issue, #19 (February 1988 - January 1989). He did assorted other DC work including "Justice, Inc." In 1990, Baker and writer Len ... |
He began scripting comics around this time: Baker penciled and inked First Comics' "Classics Illustrated" #3 & 21 (February 1990 & March 1991), adapting, respectively, "Through the Looking Glass" and "Cyrano de Bergerac". While Peter David scripted the latter, Baker himself wrote the adaptation of the Lewis Carroll wor... |
Baker achieved recognition and won an Eisner Award for his 1990 graphic novel "Why I Hate Saturn", published by the DC Comics imprint Piranha Press. Baker said in 1999 of his breakthrough work, |
Baker's cartoons and caricatures began appearing in "BusinessWeek, Details, Entertainment Weekly, ESPN, Esquire, Guitar World, Mad, National Lampoon, New York, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, Us, Vibe", and "The Village Voice". He spent three years illustrating the weekly strip "Bad Publicity" for "New York" m... |
Baker's animation has appeared on BET and MTV, and in animated "Looney Tunes" projects, including the animated feature "". Baker was "guest art director" for Cartoon Network's "Class of 3000", and storyboarded the "Class of 3000" Christmas special. |
Baker said in 1999 he was writing a Christmas movie for Paramount Pictures, titled "U Betta Watch Out", and was animating a TV-movie title "Corey Q. Jeeters, I'm Telling on You". |
At this point in his career, Baker stated in an interview, "Nobody tells me what to write or how to draw. Only an idiot would dare tell Kyle Baker how to make a good cartoon. Hollywood and the magazine world are full of idiots. They water my stuff down and make it unfunny." |
He is credited with writing and storyboarding on the "Phineas and Ferb" television episodes "Candace Loses Her Head" and "Are You My Mummy?". |
Baker drew writer Robert Morales' Marvel Comics miniseries "" #1-7 (January–July 2003), a Captain America storyline with parallels to the Tuskegee experiment. He also wrote and drew all but two issues (#7 and #12) of the 20-issue comedic adventure series "Plastic Man" vol. 4 (February 2004 - March 2006), starring the G... |
In 2006, his company, Kyle Baker Publishing, serialized a four-part comic book series about Nat Turner, and published the series "The Bakers", based on his family life, in two anthologies, "Cartoonist" and "Cartoonist Vol. 2: Now with More Bakers". He has also continued to provide comics material sporadically to Marvel... |
In 2008, Watson-Guptill published "How to Draw Stupid and Other Essentials of Cartooning", Baker's art instruction book. That same year, Baker hosted the comics industry's Harvey Awards. In 2010, he became regular artist on Marvel Comics' mature-audience MAX-imprint series, "Deadpool Max". |
Anatole Paul Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American writer, literary critic, and editor from New Orleans who wrote for "The New York Times". In addition to his many reviews and columns, he published short stories, essays, and two books during his lifetime. His autobiographical works, "Intoxicated by... |
Anatole Broyard was born in 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Black Louisiana Creole family, the son of Paul Anatole Broyard, a carpenter and construction worker, and his wife, Edna Miller, neither of whom had finished elementary school. Broyard was descended from ancestors who were established as free people of c... |
When Broyard was a child during the Depression, his family moved from New Orleans to New York City, as part of the Great Migration of African Americans to the northern industrial cities. His father thought there were more work opportunities in that city. |
According to his daughter, Bliss Broyard, "My mother said that when my father was growing up in Brooklyn, where his family had moved when he was six, he'd been ostracized by both white and black kids alike. The black kids picked on him because he looked white, and the white kids rejected him because they knew his famil... |
They lived in a working-class and racially diverse community in Brooklyn. Having grown up in the French Quarter's Creole community, Broyard felt he had little in common with the urban blacks of Brooklyn. He saw his parents "pass" as white to get work, as his father found the carpenters union to be racially discriminato... |
As writer and editor Brent Staples wrote in 2003, "Anatole Broyard wanted to be a writer – and not just a 'Negro writer' consigned to the back of the literary bus." The historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. wrote: "In his terms, he did not want to write about black love, black passion, black suffering, black joy; he wanted ... |
Broyard had some stories accepted for publication in the 1940s. He began studying at Brooklyn College before the U.S. entered World War II. When he enlisted in the army, the armed services were segregated and no African Americans were officers. He was accepted as white at enlistment and he took that opportunity to ente... |
After the war, Broyard maintained his white identity. Staples later noted: |
Those who had escaped the penalties of blackness in the military were often unwilling to go back to second-class citizenship after the war. One demographer estimated that more than 150,000 black people sailed away permanently into whiteness during the 1940s alone, marrying white spouses and most likely cutting off thei... |
Broyard used the GI Bill to study at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. He settled in Greenwich Village, where he became part of its bohemian artistic and literary life. With money saved during the war, Broyard owned a bookstore for a time. As he recounted in a 1979 column: |
Eventually, I ran away to Greenwich Village, where no one had been born of a mother and father, where the people I met had sprung from their own brows, or from the pages of a bad novel... Orphans of the avant-garde, we outdistanced our history and our humanity. |
Broyard did not identify with or champion black political causes. Because of his artistic ambition, in some circumstances he never acknowledged that he was partially black. On the other hand, Margaret Harrell has written that she and other acquaintances were casually told that he was a writer and black before meeting h... |
During the 1940s, Broyard published stories in "Modern Writing", "Discovery", and "New World Writing", three leading pocket-book format "little magazines". He also contributed articles and essays to "Partisan Review", "Commentary", "Neurotica", and New Directions Publishing. Stories of his were included in two antholog... |
He often was said to be working on a novel, but never published one. After the 1950s, Broyard taught creative writing at The New School, New York University, and Columbia University, in addition to his regular book reviewing. For nearly fifteen years, Broyard wrote daily book reviews for "The New York Times". The edito... |
In the late 1970s, Broyard started publishing brief personal essays in the "Times", which many people considered among his best work. These were collected in "Men, Women and Anti-Climaxes", published in 1980. In 1984 Broyard was given a column in the "Book Review", for which he also worked as an editor. He was among th... |
Broyard first married Aida Sanchez, a Puerto Rican woman, and they had a daughter, Gala. They divorced after Broyard returned from military service in World War II. |
In 1961, at the age of 40, Broyard married again, to Alexandra (Sandy) Nelson, a modern dancer and younger woman of Norwegian-American ancestry. They had two children: son Todd, born in 1964, and daughter Bliss, born in 1966. The Broyards raised their children as white in suburban Connecticut. When they had grown to yo... |
Shortly before he died, Broyard wrote a statement that some people later took to represent his views. In explaining why he so missed his friend the writer Milton Klonsky, with whom he used to talk every day, he said that after Milton died, "No one talked to me as an equal." Although critics framed the issue of Broyard'... |
Sandy told their children of their father's secret before his death. Broyard died in October 1990 of prostate cancer, which had been diagnosed in 1989. His first wife and child were not mentioned in his "The New York Times" obituary. |
Novelist Chandler Brossard, who knew Broyard in the late 1940s, based a character on him in his first novel, "Who Walk in Darkness" (1952). After the manuscript was submitted to New Directions Publishing, poet Delmore Schwartz read it and informed Broyard that the character Henry Porter was based on him; Broyard threat... |
Novelist William Gaddis, who likewise knew Broyard in the late 1940s, modeled a character named "Max" on Broyard in his first novel, "The Recognitions" (1955). |
Given Broyard's stature in the literary world and discussions about his life after his death, numerous literary critics, such as Michiko Kakutani, Janet Maslin, Lorrie Moore, Charles Taylor, Touré, and Brent Staples, have made comparisons between the character Coleman Silk in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" (2000) and ... |
Some speculated that Roth had been inspired by Broyard's life, and commented on the larger issues of race and identity in American society. Roth stated in a 2008 interview, however, that Broyard was not his source of inspiration. He explained that he had only learned about Broyard's black ancestry and choices from the ... |
In 1996, six years after Broyard's death, Henry Louis Gates criticized the writer, in a profile entitled "White Like Me" in "The New Yorker", for concealing his African-American ancestry. Gates expanded his essay in "The Passing of Anatole Broyard", a piece published the next year in his "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a ... |
When those of mixed ancestry—and the majority of blacks are of mixed ancestry—disappear into the white majority, they are traditionally accused of running from their "blackness." Yet why isn't the alternative a matter of running to their "whiteness"? |
In 2007, Broyard's daughter, Bliss, published a memoir, "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life: A Story of Race and Family Secrets". (The title related to the "one-drop rule". Adopted into law in most southern states in the early twentieth century, it divided society into two groups, whites and blacks, classifying all pers... |
John William Dunjee (also John Dungy or John Dungee) (1833 – 1903) was an American missionary, educator, Baptist minister, publisher, agent of Storer College and founder of Baptist churches across the United States. |
Dunjee also played a particularly prominent role in supporting Storer College as an agent for the school, a Freewill Baptist College for African Americans in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. William Still, the abolitionist, who helped facilitate Dunjee's escape from slavery, also served as a trustee of Storer. |
After his work at Storer, Dunjee next became a minister with the Baptist Home Missionary Society. He traveled throughout the country from New England to the South to the Midwest preaching and starting new Baptist churches for African Americans in mainly rural areas. |
Dunjee was also an involved supporter of many other African-American educational institutions, such as Spelman College, Shaw College, Hampton College, and Langston University. His friends included such well-known figures as Frederick Douglass. Additionally, Dunjee founded the "Harper's Ferry Messenger" in 1882 and serv... |
John Dunjee died in Oklahoma City in 1903. |
Joy DeGruy (née Leary) is an author, academic, and public speaker who previously served as assistant professor at the Portland State University School of Social Work. She is current president and CEO of DeGruy Publications, Inc. She is most known for her book "Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome," originally published by UpT... |
DeGruy's family background is from the American south. She grew up in South Central, Los Angeles where she graduated from Crenshaw High School. She recommends the book "The Warmth of Other Suns" as a source of insight into her family. |
She holds a bachelor's of science in Communication, two master's degrees (in Social Work and Clinical Psychology), and a Ph.D. in Social Work and Social Research from Portland State University's Graduate School of Social Work. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 2001, studied predictive variables for African Americ... |
DeGruy's theorization is based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted by the author in both America and Africa. |
The New Republic described the theory as "original thinking" that "explains[s] the effects of unresolved trauma on the behaviors of blacks that is transmitted from generation to generation," and suggested that the theory can be historicized more broadly alongside "new emphasis" on trauma-informed care in social work wr... |
DeGruy's theory is not without controversy. P.T.S.S. has been criticized by scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, who included it in his . P.T.S.S. has also come under fire by politically conservative advocacy group The National Association of Scholars. Among academics, critical engagement with P.T.S.S. formed the subject o... |
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