Facilitated diffusion is a passive transport mechanism in which carrier proteins shuttle molecules across the cell membrane without using the cellâs energy supplies.
Linda Brown was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas, to Leola and Oliver Brown. Though she and her two younger sisters grew up in an ethnically diverse neighborhood, Linda was forced to walk across railroad tracks and take a bus to grade school despite there being a school four blocks away from her home.
Linda Jones, a former Dallas Morning News reporter who operates a Web site called A Nappy Hair Affair, put together a workshop on the subject at the NABJ convention in Dallas in 2003. Women spoke much about how they really wanted to go natural but feared the feedback from the public, Jones recalled.