HomeWANTOKTravelsWANTOK SystemWANTOK NewsWANTOK Hosting
Skip to main content

JET FUEL AVAILABILITY IN WESTERN PROVINCE: AIR NIUGINI RESUMES FLIGHT OPERATIONS TO KIUNGA AND TABUBIL

By
MEDIA RELEASE Air Niugini is pleased to announce that following the establishment and opening of refuelling facilities on 01st February by our partners, OTML and Pacific Energy Aviation Limited (PEAL), Air Niugini has resumed its flights to Kiunga and Tabubil effective from yesterday, Sunday 02nd February.  Air Niugini is both pleased and relieved that compliant, sustainable, and appropriate jet fuel solutions have now been re-established in Tabubil, Kiunga, Mount Hagen and Lae.  This collaborative effort between OTML, PEAL and the airline is essential for maintaining safe flight operations for our valued customers travelling to and from Kiunga and Tabubil.  The availability of fuel at these four locations will also now permit the airline to carry more passengers and freight on routes to other Highlands and Momase destinations.  We look forward to the establishment of similar fuel facilities at locations such as Rabaul and Vanimo so that we can increase o...
Post a Comment

A pioneer in the world of African American music education, Harriet Gibbs Marshall

Image
By
A pioneer in the world of African American music education, Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia on February 18, 1868, to Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and Maria Ann (Alexander) Gibbs. In 1869, her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshall began her study of music at the age of nine and continued the pursuit at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she studied piano, pipe organ, and voice culture. Graduating in 1889, she was the first African American to complete the program and earn a Mus.B. degree, which at the time was Oberlin’s equivalent of a Bachelor of Music degree.
Marshall trained in Europe after graduating and, in 1890, returned to the United States to found a music conservatory at the Eckstein-Norton University, an industrial school in Cane Springs, Kentucky At the beginning of the 20th century, Marshall held the position of supervisor for the District of Columbia’s African American public schools, Divisions X-XIII, and served as the divisions’ director of music.
To provide African American students with advanced musical training within the conservatory structure, she founded the Washington Conservatory of Music in 1903. It was later renamed the Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression when the school expanded to include drama and speech. In establishing a school exclusively operated by African American musicians for the advancement of African American education, Marshall realized a lifelong goal.
Harriet Gibbs married Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall, a Massachusetts lawyer, in 1906. Together, they promoted her conservatory, but his career would eventually draw her away from her work in music education for years at a time. In 1922, she accompanied her husband to Haiti, where he was sent by President Warren G. Harding to be a part of the U.S. legation. They lived there for six years, during which time she founded the Jean Joseph Industrial School in Port-au-Prince and worked extensively with Haitian social welfare charities.
After Napoleon Marshall died in 1933, Harriet Marshall refocused her attention on the Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression. In 1937, as an expansion to the conservatory, she founded the National Negro Music Center as a resource to both promote creative work and to preserve traditional African American music. Marshall’s conservatory was a landmark in the history of black education. The Center sponsored regular concerts for the black community, trained many prominent musical professionals and attracted the nation’s most talented musicians as teachers. It remained in operation until 1960.
Harriett Gibbs Marshall died on February 25, 1941 in Burrell’s Private Hospital in Washington, D.C. She was seventy-three years old.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

This is WANTOK KIWI: Book Flights Tickets and Pay Locally in PNG Kina, Vanuatu Vatu, Fijian Dollar, Solomon Islands Dollar and Indonesian Rupiahs

By
A local company located in Port Moresby suburb, the capital city of Papua New Guinea, named  PAPUAmart.com  Limited presents to you various products specifically designed for ALL WANTOKS across Melanesian Archipelago in the South Pacific Islands region. PAPUAmart.com  Limited provides three areas of business opportunities for all Melanesian Peoples: The first one is for all Melanesians to buy Airline Tickets cheaply and directly, from your own mobile phones or computers , and the vouchers are delivered directly to you through your email address or mobile phone numbers. The second opportunity is for all Melanesians to buy your Melanesian-Specific Domain Names and then host for FREE with us . Melanesian-Specific Domains means the names of individuals, families, clans, islands, villages and organisations in from Melanesia, and particularly in Melanesian languages. The third opportunity is to own, develop and run retail business where you can sell local products to local, r...
Post a Comment
Read more

December 1, 1933 - Louis Allen "Lou" Raw

By
A FLASH BLACK MOMENT IN HISTORY: December 1, 1933 - Louis Allen "Lou" Rawls was a Black American recording artist, voice actor, songwriter, and record producer was born in Chicago, IL, on this date in 1933. He is best known for his singing ability: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game". Rawls released more than 60 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably his song "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine".  He worked as a television, motion picture, and voice actor. He was also a three-time Grammy-winner, all for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. He began singing in the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church choir at the age of seven and later sang with local groups through which he met future music stars Sam Cooke, who was nearly three years older than Rawls, and Curtis Mayfield.  After graduating from Chicago's Dunbar Vocat...
Post a Comment
Read more

OLDEST HUMAN EVER FOUND IN KEMET

By
A new study pieces together the face of a 35,000-year-old man, whose remains were discovered in Egypt's Nile Valley in 1980… Anthropological analysis revealed that the man was between 17 and 29 years old when he died, stood approximately 5 feet, 3 inches (160 centimeters) tall and was of African ancestry… The skeleton is the oldest example of Homo sapiens remains found in Egypt and one of the oldest in the world… SOURCE; (https://ortogonline-com.translate.goog/doc/pt_br/OrtogOnLineMag/6/NazletKhater2.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=pt&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-BR&_x_tr_pto=wapp) E1b1b and J are the dominant haplogroups among modern Egyptians… (“J” comes from Arabs and Ottoman Turks) E1b1b is the dominant haplogroup among Somalis… Sanchez et al. (2005) observed E1b1b in about 77.6% of their Somali male samples… SOURCE; (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15756297/) “Egyptian tradition of the Dynastic Period held that the aboriginal home of the Egyptians was Punt” SOURCE; (Si...
Post a Comment
Read more

AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRSTS - MOSES FLEETWOOD WALKER (1857-1924)

By
Moses Fleetwood Walker, often called Fleet, was the first African American to play major league baseball in the nineteenth century. Born October 7, 1857, in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Walker was the fifth of six children born to parents, Dr. Moses W. Walker, a physician, and Caroline Walker, a midwife. Oberlin College admitted Walker for the fall 1878 semester. In 1881, he played in all five games of the new varsity baseball team at Oberlin. Before the end of the year, however, Walker left Oberlin to play baseball for the University of Michigan. In July 1882, Walker married Bella Taylor and the couple had three children. Fleetwood Walker was able to earn money as a catcher. He played individual games for the White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland (August 1881), the New Castle (Pennsylvania) Neshannocks (1882), and with the Toledo Blue Stockings of the Northwestern League (1883). In August 1883, Adrian “Cap” Anson, manager of the Chicago (Illinois) White Stockings, stated his ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Half of all U.S. states, specifically 25, have names that originate from Native American languages

By
Half of all U.S. states, specifically 25, have names that originate from Native American languages or have Native American origins. These names reflect the rich history and cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited these lands before European colonization. The states with Native American names include: 1. Alabama - Derived from the Alabama tribe, a Muskogean-speaking people. 2. Alaska - Derived from the Aleut word "alaxsxaq" or "agunalaksh," meaning "the mainland" or "great land." 3. Arizona - Derived from the O'odham word "Alฤญ แนฃonak," meaning "small spring" or "place of the small spring." 4. Arkansas - Derived from the French interpretation of the name given to the Quapaw people, a tribe living along the Arkansas River. 5. Connecticut - Derived from the Mohegan-Pequot word "quinatucquet," meaning "long tidal river" or "beside the long, tidal river." 6. De...
Post a Comment
Read more

๐Œ'๐๐ˆ๐‹๐ˆ๐€ ๐๐„๐‹ (Born January 10th, 1959)

By
★Her real Name๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐ž ๐‚๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐Œ๐›๐จ๐ฒ๐จ ๐Œ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ค๐š ★ Stage Name ๐Œ'๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐š ๐๐ž๐ฅ. ★ At the age of seventeen, Mbilia Bel began her performing career, singing as a backup singer for ๐€๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ข ๐Œ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ข ★ She is known as the "Queen of Congolese and African Rumba". In the early 1980s she joined Tabu Ley Rochereau's band (Afrisa International). ★ In the mid-1980s, the birth of their first child prompted her to take a break from performing for a year ★ Mbilia Bel's first album, released in 1982, was ๐—˜๐˜€๐˜„๐—ถ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ถ. The title song, which translates to "Where did it hurt you?", was composed by both Tabu Ley and M'bilia Bel. The song won the award for the best song of 1982 in Zaire, and M'bilia Bel won the award for best newcomer. Other songs on the album such as Tabu Ley's "Lisanga ya Bambanda", "Kelhia", and Dino Vangu's "Quelle Mechancete" were big hits for Afrisa Internat...
Post a Comment
Read more

๐—˜๐——๐— ๐—ข๐—ก๐—— ๐—”๐—Ÿ๐—•๐—œ๐—จ๐—ฆ (1829-1880)

By
Edmond Albius was born a slave in 1829, in St. Suzanne, on the island Rรฉunion. His mother died during childbirth, and he never knew his father. In his youth he was sent to work for Botanist Fereol Bellier-Beaumont. The vanilla plant was flourishing in Mexico, and by the late 18th century, a few plants were sent to Paris, London, Europe and Asia, in hopes of producing the bean in other areas. Although the vine would grow and flower, it would not produce any beans. French colonists brought vanilla beans to Rรฉunion around 1820. Beaumont had been teaching young Edmond how to tend to the various plants on his estate. He taught him how to hand-pollinate a watermelon plant. Beaumont had previously planted vanilla beans, and had just one vine growing for over twenty years, but was also unable to produce any beans on the vine. Young Edmond began to study the plant and made a discovery. He carefully probed the plant and found the part of the flower that produced the pollen. Edmond th...
Post a Comment
Read more