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Alice Ball Day: UH Manoa’s Black Student Association and Sister Circle honor trailblazing pioneer

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Feb. 28 marks Alice Ball Day and the end of Black History Month, which commemorates the achievements of the first African American woman to graduate from UH Manoa and ...
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A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island of Molokai, where the Ball Method successfully treated leprosy sufferers. Albert Pierce Taylor Hansen’s disease, also ...
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This Black History Month, a long-delayed celebration of a chemist whose work was stolen

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Community leaders and students celebrated Black History Month Wednesday and Alice Augusta Ball, a black UH chemist who created a treatment for leprosy. Her discovery was ...
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A young, Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s; but an older colleague took the credit

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A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, ...