A genius is defined as someone who has an
exceptional natural capacity of intellect. They
are people whose lives and work have impacted
the physical and cultural milieu of the world.
news one has put together a list of geniuses
who continue the thread and spirit of Black life
and culture. Check them out!

1. Ben Carson: In fifth grade, Carson was
failing and his class mates called him “dummy.”
Since Carson’s mom, Sonja, a third-grade drop-
out, didn’t want her two boys to follow in her
footsteps, she cracked the whip. The Mom-on-a-
mission limited TV-watching and kept her sons
from playing outside until all homework was
done. The Carson boys had to read two books a
week then give their mom two book reports on
what they had read, even though she could
barely make out what they had written. Within
a few weeks, Carson turned his grade average
around and realized he was far from stupid. A
year later, he topped his class. Carson began to
consume books and placed becoming a doctor
on his radar. He soon graduated with honors
from high school and set his sights on Yale
University, earning a Psychology degree from
the Ivy League school.
When he attended the University of Michigan’s
medical school, he switched from psychiatry to
neurosurgery. Upon graduating, Carson
completed his residency at the famed Johns
Hopkins, and by 32, he became the director of
pediatric neurosurgery. In 1987, Carson made
medical history with an operation to separate a
pair of Siamese twins.
Watch Carson talk about his work here:
Carson has pioneered other successful surgical
innovations that have actually cheated death.
The man with the gifted hands, who lives by the
belief that “no one should ever get too big for
God,” has received the nation’s highest civilian
honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and
is greatly in demand as a speaker.
Carson’s other true passion is the state of
education in this country. Lamenting the lack of
quality in this country’s public education
system, Carson has dedicated himself to
frequently visiting with Black school children in
order to motivate them to strive to become all
that they can be. “I tell them about slavery,
when it was illegal for Blacks to learn how to
read. I say, Now why do you think that was? Do
you think that was just arbitrary? No, the
reason they didn’t want you to be educated is
because education empowers people. So why
would you voluntarily do to yourself what was
being imposed by an unjust system before?”

2. Brittney Exline:
When Exline walked
across the stage at
the University of
Pennsylvania
graduating cum laude
at age 19, she also
walked in to the
history
books. Exline was
the school’s youngest
engineer and the nation’s youngest African-
American engineer. In 2007, at age 15,
Exline made headlines in her hometown when
she graduated from her Colorado Springs high
school at 15. There is no doubt that the young
woman, who speaks Spanish, French, Japanese,
Russian, Arabic, and German, was born with a
genius gene. Exline was making pyramid
designs with blocks at 6 months old, walking at
8 months old, and completing 24- to- 100-piece
jigsaw puzzles at 15 months old.
Exline’s stellar academics helped her to secure
an internship at a small hedge fund on New
York City’s famed Wall Street at 16 and 17. In
addition to all of her great academic and
professional feats, Exline has won several
pageant titles and is an accomplished dancer.
Volunteerism has also remained a passion for
the now-motivational speaker who during her
college years worked with Community School
Student Partnerships in Philadelphia to train
and mentor 30 tutors.

3. Dr. Ronald Mallet : Physics? Mallet grew up
poor and was the oldest of four children, and at
10 years old, he hadn’t even heard of physics
until he read the H.G. Wells ‘ classic “The Time
Machine,” after his father died at age 33. The
young Roaring Spring, Penn., native thought
that if he built a device, such as the one in the
Wells’ book, he could see his father again. This
longing to reunite with his dad and travel back
in time inspired him to become one of America’s
first African-American Ph.D.s in theoretical
physics. Ironically, the young Mallett was not
terribly enthusiastic about school, but his
singular passion to uncover the mysteries of
space and time spurred him on to receive his
B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physics from
Pennsylvania State University. In 1975, Mallet
joined the physics faculty at the University of
Connecticut in Storrs, where he has been a
professor of theoretical physics ever since.
Dr. Mallet has published numerous papers on
black holes and cosmology in professional
journals. His breakthrough research on time
travel has been featured extensively in the
media around the world, including NPR’s “This
American Life” and the History Channel, Science
Channel, and Learning Channel.
Dr. Ronald Mallett is the personification of
brilliance and greatness tempered by a true
persevering spirit. He is a man of his own
making who has — for the last 50 years —
stayed his course, even though he began as a
broken-hearted 10-year-old boy whose father
was taken away from him much too soon.
Watch Dr. Mallet talk about losing his father
and trying to build a real time machine here:

4. Ornette
Coleman:
Saxophonist
extraordinaire
Charlie Parker was
Coleman’s greatest
influence when he
picked up the alto
sax at age 14 and
tenor two years later.
The highly respected
revolutionary is
credited as being
among the creators of free jazz. The innovative
musician/composer has been hailed a musical
genius and visionary while his “haters” have
been unable to comprehend his radical, abstract,
and highly cerebral work. Coleman began
working in R&B bands in Texas, including those
of Red Connors and Pee Wee Crayton , but his
attempts to play in an original style were
consistently met with hostility both by
audiences and fellow musicians. Coleman
moved to Los Angeles in the early ’50s, where
he worked as an elevator operator while
studying music books.
Listen to Coleman’s music here:
Finally in 1958, after many failed attempts to sit
in with top L.A. musicians, Coleman found a
clique of musicians who could do justice to his
unique sound. In 1959, Coleman’s radical jazz
sound found a home at the Five Spot in New
York City, and each night his music filled the
house with curious onlookers who would either
label him a “genius” or a “fraud.”
Coleman created music that would greatly
influence such noted great improvisers of the
1960s, including John Coltrane and Eric
Dolphy. In 1962, Coleman decided to take a
break to teach himself the trumpet and violin,
and three years later, he recorded a few mind-
boggling sets on all his instruments with a trio
featuring bassist David Izenzon and drummer

5. Tiya Miles: A scholar and increasingly
authoritative voice in reframing and
reinterpreting the history of our diverse nation,
Miles is a public historian and the country’s
foremost expert on the complex
interrelationships between African and
Cherokee people living and working in colonial
America. In her first book “Ties That Bind: The
Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and
Freedom,” Miles explores Cherokee history with
attention to the interrelated nature of slavery,
race, kin, citizenship, and community. Miles
continues her exploration in to early Afro-
Indian relations with a public history project
and book centered on the Diamond Hill
plantation in Georgia, one of the largest Native-
owned plantations in colonial history.
Watch Miles talk about the importance of her
work here:
In “ The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee
Plantation Story,” she documents Chief James
Vann‘s control of his plantation and abuse of
his Cherokee wives and African slaves.
Miles, who received an B.A. from Harvard
University, an M.A. from Emory University, and
a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota, is
currently at the University of Michigan, where
she serves as a professor in the Department of
History and professor and chair of the
Department of Afro-American and African
Studies. She holds additional appointments in
the Program in American Culture, the Native
American Studies Program, and the Department
of Women’s Studies.
Miles’ work collecting and analyzing information
from the U.S. Census, oral histories, and
newspapers has been recognized by the
MacArthur Foundation, which awarded her
with a MacArthur Genius grant last year.
Regarding Miles’ life work, she says, “I think
that history matters so much to who we are as
individuals, as communities, as a nation, as a
global community. I feel that it’s just so
important to bring the meaningful stories of the
past into the present, into today, and to allow
people to engage with them and to connect
them back to their own lives.”

6. Elise Tan: At age
2, Tan who had an IQ
of 156, was a card-
carrying member of
Mensa, the
international
organization for
people with very
high scores in IQ
tests. Tan was only 5
months old when she
looked her dad,
Edward (pictured),
in the face and called
him “Dada.” She was
walking by 8 months,
running at 10
months, and a year old when she could
recognize her written name. At 16 months old,
she could count to 10, and by age 2, she knew
the capitals of the world and could speak
Spanish. Before she began to verbally
communicate, her parents noticed that she
would stare at people and things as if she were
taking everything in and then sorting things
out. At a play group, her mom, Louise
(pictured), once gave Tan a “rhinoceros” and
the little tot corrected her mom by informing
her that the toy was actually a triceratops.
When Tan was evaluated by a specialist
education psychologist, he concluded that the
child was indeed “gifted.” Tan’s parents,
Edward, a motor consultant and car buyer, and
mom Louise, a homemaker, admit that neither
side has geniuses in their lineage. The London
couple just want their 5-year-old little girl to be
happy for now, and as far as what the future
holds, perhaps a revision to Albert Einstein’s
Theory of Relativity?

Nice topic!

I have documentaries on "Time travel " and in one of them, Dr Ronald Mallet was featured. His work on time travel is inspiring and amazing.

These are some of the people black people need to draw motivation/inspiration from!

Kslib: Nice topic!

I have documentaries on "Time travel " and in one of them, Dr Ronald Mallet was featured. His work on time travel is inspiring and amazing.

These are some of the people black people need to draw motivation/inspiration from!

no doubt he is , but am still wondering if time travel could be actualized ! seems fringe to me. what do you think ..?

benbuks:

no doubt he is , but am still wondering if time travel could be actualized ! seems fringe to me. what do you think ..?

I believe it can.

Ok first of all, why do you feel it cant?

Kslib:
I believe it can.

Ok first of all, why do you feel it cant?

its mere fiction

i think we should create a thread on this , I've been thinking critically & following the world of physics & attempts made by some scientist /mathematicians to prove time travel which some did theoretically , but for real , how possible is it to travel back to the past / to the future .?


gat to be "supernatural " i suppose .

benbuks: its mere fiction

i think we should create a thread on this , I've been thinking critically & following the world of physics & attempts made by some scientist /mathematicians to prove time travel which some did theoretically , but for real , how possible is it to travel back to the past / to the future .?


gat to be "supernatural " i suppose .

Its possibe to travel into the future but not into the past. The problem that comes with your "thomas" like belief is your understanding of what travelling into the future means.

Stephew hawking explained how time travel can be possible using the speed of light as a case study.

When you travel at close to the speed of light, time moves much much slower, relative to an observer not moving at light's speed.

In other words, if i happen to be in some machine that can speed close to 99% of light's speed. Unknown to me, time is moving much more slower compared to those on earth. So, by just travelling one week in that machine, a 100 years would have past on earth. When the machine stops and i get back to earth, everything would have changed. Most of my mates dead but fortunately, i would have aged only by week. So you see, i have travelled into the future..

In CERN at geneva. There is a propelling machine that propells tiny particles at the speed of light. These particles are called "pi-mesons". They last for only 25billionth of a second but in that machine, their life span has been found to last 30 times longer.

My battery is low for now so i might reply late, later in the day. Forgive my typos. It was typed in a rush!

You also know that gravity has a very profound effect on time right?

At the black hole, some 26000 or so light years away from earth is where brags of the strongest gravitional field anywhere in our galaxy. There, times moves 1/2 the fraction of what we experience on earth..

100 years on earth is 50 years there. So to some very reasonable extent, the black hole is a natural time machine.

Still on gravity: Time moves faster in space compared to earth due to both's relative position to earth's gravitational field which is strongest on earth. As i am talking to you right now, satellite's in space are a fraction of a second or so into the future . So its only logical to say that time travel into the future is very much possible---depending on how you wanna look at it.

But above all, i believe the speed of light is our best shot at time travel.

I knew I was a genius but I was not properly harnesses and so I end up like this.








Don't ask me which area I specialise because you won't like it.

Well done ! interesting list, I think Vivien Thomas should be added to the list too.

They are indeed genuises,ben Carson is a force to reckon with. Despite all odds,he prevailed and he is always remembered.

wow.

thanks for this post....i was beginning to despair..

@op: apart from ben carson; cant see nobody changing no lyf bro; how many lyfs were actually changed by miles or mallet; or prob ur quantification of changin lyfs isnt well expanciated here; u cant talk abt afro american who inspired millions without namin; martin luther king jnr; malcolm x;barrack obama(forget d sentiment;he did inspire millions of black who didnt blived in dem self);micheal jackson;muhammed ali; ben carson; then u can list ur remainin shit; 1 luv

Smartsyn: I knew I was a genius but I was not properly harnesses and so I end up like this.

Don't ask me which area I specialise because you won't like it.

Please sir, I would like to know.

iduzebaba: @op: apart from ben carson; cant see nobody changing no lyf bro; how many lyfs were actually changed by miles or mallet; or prob ur quantification of changin lyfs isnt well expanciated here; u cant talk abt afro american who inspired millions without namin; martin luther king jnr; malcolm x;barrack obama(forget d sentiment;he did inspire millions of black who didnt blived in dem self);micheal jackson;muhammed ali; ben carson; then u can list ur remainin shit; 1 luv

you're right sir . i didn't do the listing , saw it on net then copied & pasted ,

many more blacks doing great & affecting lives ,



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