The Black Informant

I found this on the website Blacksuccessfoundation.org

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The New Orleans Center for Science & Math is a high school program with an enrollment that is 95% African-American, 65% female and 70% high poverty. There is no admission test and they accept a broad range of students who demonstrate interest in science and math. 93% of our graduating classes are accepted into colleges earning $400-500,000 in scholarship offers. For more information contact, Kris Pottharst, Executive Director of Advocates for Science & Math Education, Inc. E-mail:

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The National Medical Association’s web site reports that the organization has a membership database of 25,000 - consisting of Black physicians in a wide range of specialties, such as primary care, pediatrics, radiology, pathology, aerospace medicine, academic medicine, administration specialties and medical and surgical subspecialties.

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The National Bar Association’s web site reports that the organization represents a professional network of over 20,000 Black lawyers, judges, educators and law students.

Black Enterprise, June 1998, cites data from the Directory of Minority Judges of the United States, Second Edition, American Bar Association, Chicago, 1997, that indicates that there are

1,680 African American judges in the United States - or 2.8% of the 60,000 total judges nationwide.

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The National Society of Black Engineers’ web site reports that the organization has 10,000 members, including 2000 professional engineers and scientists.

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The web site of the Association of Black Psychologists reports a membership of 1400 professionals and students who are in the forefront of addressing issues of a psychological nature that adversely affect the Black community.

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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies reports that there were 8.868 Blacks holding political positions across the United States in 1998. While there was only 1 Black Senator and 39 Black Representatives in the United States Congress, and only 1 Black Governor in office in 1998, there were 154 Black State Senators and 425 Black State Representatives. 808 Blacks were members of County Governing Boards, 445 were Mayors, and 3468 were members of Municipal Governing Boards. 948 Blacks were Judges or other Judicial Officials, 50 were Police Chiefs, Sheriffs, or Marshals, and 2017 were members of University and College Boards or Local School Boards or were other Education Officials. Check out the full report at www.jointctr.org.

African Americans on Currency, did you know it is a little known fact that five African Americans have had their signatures on currency. The four African American men s C. Napier. These men served as Registers of the Treasury. Until the series 1923 currency, the two signatures on almost all currency (except Fractional Currency and Demand Notes) were of the Treasurer and the Register. During this pewhose signatures appeared on the currency were Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon and Jameriod four of the 17 registers were African American. The fifth African American whose signature appeared on currency was Azie Taylor Morton. Ms. Morton was the 36th Treasurer of the United States. She served from September 12, 1977, to January 20, 1981. There are no images of African-Americans printed on U.S. currency.