Black Men Who Have Made A Difference

These brave and resilience modern men such as George Floyd, Tyler Perry, President, Barack Obama, Steve Harvey, Mahammad Ali, standing on the shoulders of men like Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Ralph Bunch, Bill Pickett, Dr. Charles Drew, Thurgood Marshall, Elijah McCoy, Benjamin Banneker, and many more of our past who in the face of adversity and inequality pressed through to make a way in one way or another to open doors that were closed to them. They all have left a legacy for all those young men who dare to go through them too.

Readers will be enlighten and inspired by the amazing talents, knowledge, preserverance, determination, and will of these magnificent men as told in a shorten poetic biography version of their lives.

Dr. Minnie Ransom holds a life California Standard Teaching Credential; A life California Adult Education Credential; A life Standard Teaching-Early Childhood Credential; is certified in the education of English Language Development (ELD); and Gifted and Talented (GATE) students.She knows struggles, discrimination, adversities, inequities, and the importance of education. Often she was the only Black student in classes throughout high school, college, and at her teaching sight.Dr. Ransom is a long- term private and public educator who has worked with all age groups including preschoolers through high school. She has successfully owned and operated a private school that served infants through third grade students for academics and daycare. She has been a long-term public educator of general education, GATE students, and English Learners in public schools including preschool, through high school, Juvenile facilities, and adult education.Dr. Ransom discovered as a young child that she wanted to pursue a career in education when she used to teach her younger cousins what she had learned in first grade.Now she is pursuing educating through the means of print.