FREDERICK DOUGLASS “FRITZ” POLLARD (1894 – 1986) enjoyed a number of firsts as the first black man to play in the Rose Bowl; one of the first black players in the NFL; the first black quarterback; as well as the first black coach before being named the first black football player to be elected to the National College Football Hall of Fame. But Fritz went on to become so much more than just an athlete.
Last month rapper Rick Ross experienced a bit of a health scare involving two seizures in one day. The Def Jam recording artist stopped by BET’s 106th & Park and talked about his experience and explained the real reason behind that eventful day:
When I snapped out of it [the first seizure] and they told me what had happened, I’m like, ‘You’re buggin’. Call the jet. We’re about to keep it moving.’ Growing up and hearing about seizures, they can be violent. You bust vessels. You bite your tongue up. In my case, there wasn’t any of that. I felt like I could keep going. I boarded the jet and I had another seizure. And when I snapped out of that one, I woke up in front of a doctor and he asked me basically, ‘When was the last time you slept 8 hours?’ It was a case of me not getting enough rest, not getting enough sleep, so I had to fix that.
Grammy Award winning artist, Alicia Keys kicked off the launch of the Western Union World of Betters Global Campaign on Tuesday November 1st with a visit to her high school alma mater, the Professional Performing Arts School in NYC. She surprised the students with the gift of new instruments!
“As a proud graduate of the Professional Performing Arts School, I thought about the students
there who are in desperate need of new musical equipment to help them learn their craft,” said Alicia Keys. “Because right now, my alma mater is underfunded and oversubscribed—and I hope to make this better for them, so they can follow their dreams. As the Co-founder of Keep a Child Alive, I constantly see that there are so many ways the world can be made a better place. That’s why I’m so excited to work on the ‘World of Betters’ initiative and I know for a fact, that there are so many people out there with amazing ideas that can show how even a small change, can make a big impact.”
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