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Brand B
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Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator, Activist, Freedom Fighter. Basically, a Nobody who is Somebody you used to know.
... As many of you know, our name, Portokalos, is come from the Greek word "portokali," which mean "orange." So, okay? Here tonight, we have, ah, apple and orange. We all different, but in the end, we all fruit."
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
"You know, the root of the word Miller is a Greek word. Miller come from the Greek word "milo," which is mean "apple," so there you go ...
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
... So I just wanted you to know: that one day - when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you're playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody."
February 12, 2026 at 6:44 AM
"I'm not leaving because I'm scared, or because I think I'm not enough - because maybe for the first time in my life, I know I am ...
February 12, 2026 at 6:44 AM
"You are everything I never knew I always wanted"

"I'll play you ... For what? ... Your heart."
February 12, 2026 at 6:44 AM
... In 1987, her second autobiography, Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement (Wild Trees Press, 1986) won the American Book Award. In 2020, Clark was honored by South Carolina by being featured on the reverse of the American Innovation series of $1 coins."
February 11, 2026 at 11:48 PM
... In 1978, Clark was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters by the College of Charleston. U.S. President Jimmy Carter awarded Clark a Living Legacy Award in 1979 ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
... In 1945, Clark worked with Thurgood Marshall on a case that was about equal pay for white and black teachers led by NAACP in Columbia, South Carolina ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
... In 1920, Clark enjoyed the first of many legal victories when blacks were given the right to become principals in Charleston's public schools, under the education board of aldermen of Charleston ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
... In a citywide effort involving hundreds of volunteers, she helped garner more than 5,000 signatures of black heads of household to change the law ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
... She joined the local branch of the NAACP, & she was guided by artist and branch president Edwin A. Harleston in her early political activity. Clark led her students around the city, going door-to-door, asking for signatures on a petition to allow black teachers in Charleston's public schools ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM
... In 1918, Clark returned to Charleston to teach sixth grade at Avery Normal Institute, a private academy for black children ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM
... Martin Luther King Jr. commonly referred to Clark as ‘The Mother of the Movement.’ Clark's argument for her position in the Civil Rights Movement was one that claimed ‘knowledge could empower marginalized groups in ways that formal legal equality couldn't.’ ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:46 PM
... Septima Clark's work was commonly under-appreciated by Southern male activists. She became known as the ‘Queen Mother’ or ‘Grandmother’ of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
... #septimaclark

“Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights and civil rights for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement ...
February 11, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Day 41

Late Night Workout Moment

"Be stronger than your excuse." — Unknown

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February 11, 2026 at 8:02 AM
In the park stands a 15 by 8-foot bronze slab with a 'cut-out man figure' inspired by his book Invisible Man."
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM
... A park on 150th Street and Riverside Drive in Harlem (near 730 Riverside Drive, Ellison's principal residence from the early 1950s until his death) was dedicated to Ellison on May 1, 2003 ...
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM
... All the manuscripts of this incomplete novel were published collectively on January 26, 2010, by Modern Library, under the title Three Days Before the Shooting ... In 2014, the USPS issued a 91¢ stamp honoring Ralph Ellison in its Literary Arts series ...
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM
... In 1999, his second novel, Juneteenth, was published under the editorship of John F. Callahan, a professor at Lewis & Clark College and Ellison's literary executor. It was a 368-page condensation of more than 2,000 pages written by Ellison over a period of 40 years ...
February 11, 2026 at 4:17 AM