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Today I aspire to never be deterred. Amen!

Motley is widely acknowledged as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement, especially its legal battles. As the first Black woman to sit on the federal judiciary she (1921-2005) worked on civil rights cases alongside Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP LDF
February 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980)

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze.
No one ever thanked him.
January 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM