Diaspora, 9 February 2012 (Repost)

I was actually looking for a video of him playing the saxaphone in orbit and happened upon this history by ABCNEWS.com. Related to the previous post: his PhD was in Laser Physics from MIT.

"Education was the secular god of the black community" (a quote I remember, but have no sources for it).

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

"When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions." Carter G. Woodson

NASA: Dr. Ronald E. McNair