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Black Lives made STEM history
STEM history
Oooooo, Ooo, Ooo, Ooo
We Call it STEMusic, Yeah
CHORUS:
Black Lives made STEM history
So many inventions you can see
Black Lives made STEM history
Changed the world for you and me
Black Lives made STEM history
So many inventions you can see
Black Lives made STEM history
Changed the world for you and me
First things first Gotta take it back to Africa
Swaziland the start of matemáticas
Mathematics, what we talkin about
The Lebombo bone came first no doubt
Numerical notches made a lunar calendar
Crucial history for sure
Gotta reintroduce the truth
Like the tech center of the world, Timbuktu
Manuscripts for days on end
Full of knowledge full of STEM
Can’t forget about the Egyptians
Flexin genius with pyramids
Trigonometry and algebra
Math systems they made for all of us
So keep this in mind, everytime
Black people, They really made STEM shine
CHORUS
Listen up, let’s take it back to America
Started as slaves but then we really leveled up
Intelligent with inventions galore
Built a strong foundation and so much more
Science technology engineering and math
Such amazing contributions as a matter of fact
It wasn’t just the peanut by George Washington Carver,
I’m talkin hair care and science that made us smarter
Cool stuff like a super soaker water gun
Lonnie Johnson just wanted kids to have fun
We gotta talk about Dr. Patricia Bath
With the laserphaco probe,
she brought eyesight back
From Mae Jemison to Dr. Shirley Jackson,
Garett Morgan, Lewis Latimer and Herman Branson
Black minds really revolutionized STEM
That’s why it’s so important that we gotta know them
CHORUS
STEM history
STEM history
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