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Super Soaker!
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Lonnie Johnson │ The National Inventors Hall of Fame
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February 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Super Soaker!
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Lifting voices!
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SpeakOut | Mariah Parker
Linguistics Scholar, Rapper, and Political and Labor Organizer Fighting for Social and Economic Justice
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February 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Lifting voices!
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I needed to hear her voice today.
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Amanda Gorman
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February 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I needed to hear her voice today.
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www.theamandagorman.com
COL. (RET) Guion Bluford, first African American in space.
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Penn State Black History / African American Chronicles
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February 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
COL. (RET) Guion Bluford, first African American in space.
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New history for me while reading more about Langston Hughes.
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Robert Sengstacke Abbott: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Winner
The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Inductee: Robert Sengstacke Abbott
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February 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
New history for me while reading more about Langston Hughes.
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It's never too late to start standing up for justice.
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Gloria St. Clair Hayes Richardson Dandridge
Civil Rights Icon. Cambridge Resident. Champion.
There were threats that my house would be bombed, and I later found out that I was No. 2 on the Klan's list after Martin Luther King. - Gloria Richards...
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February 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's never too late to start standing up for justice.
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It feels like a "Good Trouble" kinda day!
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John Lewis (February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020)
There was perhaps no single figure whose own life and career embodied the promise, success, and continued challenges of civil rights for Black Americans than John Lewis. Born in 1940 in Alabama, Lewis...
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February 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It feels like a "Good Trouble" kinda day!
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"I feel our nation’s turning away from love…moving into a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again. I write of love to bear witness both to the danger in this movement, and to call for a return to love"
Bell Hooks (2000)
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Bell Hooks (2000)
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bell hooks/Gloria Jean Watkins (1952-2021) •
Writer, teacher, and cultural critic, bell hooks, was born Gloria Jean Watkins on September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to a working-class family. Her father, Veodis Watkins, was a janitor f...
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February 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"I feel our nation’s turning away from love…moving into a wilderness of spirit so intense we may never find our way home again. I write of love to bear witness both to the danger in this movement, and to call for a return to love"
Bell Hooks (2000)
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Bell Hooks (2000)
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Oregon history today as we continue to celebrate BHM.
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Oregon Experience | Beatrice Morrow Cannady | Season 1 | Episode 107
Pioneer African-American civil rights advocate in Oregon.
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February 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Oregon history today as we continue to celebrate BHM.
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Aviation has been on my mind...
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Biography: Bessie Coleman
Bessie Coleman soared across the sky as the first African American, and the first Native American, woman pilot.
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February 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Aviation has been on my mind...
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Today's BHM person was known as the "King og Cool"
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Frederick McKinley Jones: From Self-Taught Engineer to “King of Cool”
The Black inventor is best known for creating portable refrigeration equipment used to transport food, blood, and medicine during World War II.
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February 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Today's BHM person was known as the "King og Cool"
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Her research in high school is just the beginning of the innovations to come from this young person.
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Dasia Taylor
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February 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Her research in high school is just the beginning of the innovations to come from this young person.
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Another person in history we don't hear much about, who made America safer.
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Who Made America? | Innovators | Garrett Augustus Morgan
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February 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Another person in history we don't hear much about, who made America safer.
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February 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
