I need to be reminded of this exercise on a daily basis.

Just an observation: It's our reaction, we need only decide to react differently.

Waiting for news of escalating and more widespread strikes.

They made a great movie about the 6888th. It should be mandatory viewing in grammar, middle school, and high school, with written reports. If you haven't seen it, make the time.

Not my lane by any measure, but you should read some books because the author cared enough to write them. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…

Hopeful that despite its new status, #Iran does not pause in its search for a stable and just Middle East. (one free of the US and its doxies)

We can keep making lists of their crimes, or we could stop a few of them before their happen!

#BlackHistory Oct. 27th Eva Taylor. 'In 1922 Taylor made her first record for the African-American owned Black Swan label, who billed her as “The Dixie Nightingale”.' syncopatedtimes.com/eva-tayl… Oct. 26th Anna Diggs Taylor. "In 1979, Anna Diggs Taylor became the first black woman judge to be appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Nineteen years later, she became the first black woman Chief Judge for that circuit as well." micourthistory.org/women-and… Oct. 25th Ellen Tarry. "Tarry went on to study at an HBCU, Alabama State University, before becoming a teacher and writer, one of the earliest Black Catholic figures to openly advocate for Black liberation and Black pride in the press." blackcatholicmessenger.org/e… Oct. 24th Ann Tanneyhill. "Tanneyhill’s commitment to Black youth was extraordinary. In the late 1950s, she was pivotal in the League's pioneering effort to persuade major corporations to recruit on Historical Black College and University campuses." aaregistry.org/story/anna-ta… Oct. 23rd Madame Sul-Te-Wan. "Her stage name, with its mix of formality and exoticism, served a dual purpose in a racist industry: it guaranteed she would always be addressed as “Madame” and plausibly allowed her to play a range of ethnicities." regenerationblackcinema.org/… Oct. 22nd Niara Sudarkasa. "In 2001 Sudarkasa became the first African American to be installed as a chief in the historic Ife Kingdom of the Yoruba of Nigeria." thehistorymakers.org/biograp… Oct. 21st Ella P. Stewart. "Ella Nora Phillips Myers Stewart was one of the first practicing Black women pharmacists in the United States." wgpfoundation.org/historic-m… Oct. 20th Jeanne Spurlock. "As a psychiatrist, she made significant contributions in focusing the medical community's attention on the stresses of poverty, sexism, racism, and discrimination that effect women, minorities, gays, and lesbians." nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/chang… Oct. 19th Victoria "Queen Victoria" Spivey. 'Among her compositions are "Black Snake Blues" (1926), "Dope Head Blues" (1927), and "Organ Grinder Blues" (1928). In 1962 she co-founded Spivey Records.' wbssmedia.com/artists/detail… Oct. 18th Hortense Spillers. "Having taught in the U.S. academy for three decades now (and counting), I am reluctant to look back for all those mythical reasons that warn against the backward glance." as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bi… Oct. 17th Isabele Taliaferro Spiller. " Her primary instrument was the tenor saxophone, but she also doubled on alto and baritone saxophone, and occasionally, trumpet and piano." necmusic.edu/on-campus/libra… Oct. 16th Anne Spencer. "Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of Black intellectual and cultural life, and fought for equal rights for African Americans." womenshistory.org/education-… Oct. 15th Eulalie Spence. "Eulalie Spence was considered one of the Harlem Renaissance's rising young playwrights, although she had little financial success." aaregistry.org/story/eulalie… Oct. 14th Valaida Snow. "Her story epitomizes the history of countless gifted but underappreciated African American artists, performers and musicians who often were not universally recognized in their lifetime." nmaahc.si.edu/explore/storie… Oct. 13th Mabel Murphy Smythe-Haith. "Among her published writings are The New Nigerian Elite (Stanford University Press, 1960), co-authored with husband Hugh Smythe, and the widely used The Black American Reference Book (Prentice Hall, 1976), of which she the principal editor." blackpast.org/african-americ… Oct. 12th Willie "Mother Smith" Mae Ford Smith. "A rare interview with St. Louis legend Willie Mae Ford Smith, recorded in 1973 and now heard for the first time." stlmag.com/culture/a-rare-in… Oct. 11th Mamie Smith. "Actress and performing artist Mamie Smith made music history in 1920 when she stepped into a studio to lay down “Crazy Blues,” considered by industry scholars to be the very first blues recording." blackpast.org/african-americ… Oct. 10th Lucie Wilmot Smith. "She served as an editor and wrote special columns for Our Women and Children and was also on the staff of the Baptist Journal. She spoke out on women's rights and voting." nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show… Oct. 9th Clara "Queen of the Moaners" Smith. 'Her May 1926 recording of "Whip It to a Jelly", was noted as "one of the more overt sexual blues".' blinddogradio.blogspot.com/2… Oct. 8th Ada "Bricktop" Smith. "Born Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith in Alderson, Bricktop was a dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the Paris nightclub Chez Bricktop." wvmusichalloffame.com/hof_br… Oct. 7th Lucy Diggs Slowe. “Education must fit…[African-American] women, as it must fit all women, for the highest development of their own gifts; but, whatever those gifts, they will not be able to exercise them unless they understand the world they live in and are prepared to make their contribution to it,” Lucy Diggs Slowe, “Higher Education of Negro Women,” 1933. womenshistory.org/education-… Oct. 6th Edith Barksdale Sloan. "When she took over the National Committee on Household Employment, she did not just see a group of underpaid women. She saw a carefully engineered legal trap." facebook.com/groups/14657369… Oct. 5th Norma Merrick Sklarek. 'Lauded for her numerous pioneering achievements as one of the first African American women architects in the United States, Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926–2012) has been called the “Rosa Parks of architecture.”' pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/nor… Oct. 4th Naomi Sims. "Naomi Ruth Sims is widely credited as the first African-American supermodel. A businesswoman and author, Sims was the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal." blackpast.org/african-americ… Oct. 3rd Hilda Simms. "Black actress and Minneapolis native Hilda Simms was a rising star on stage and screen in post-WWII America. However, accusations of un-Americanism and communist sympathies eventually derailed her career." spokesman-recorder.com/2024/… Oct. 2nd Judy Dothard Simmons. "Thematically, Simmons's work is a fierce welding of personal accomplishment with social responsibility as exampled by her father's great-great-grandfather, the civil rights leader George T. Downing (1819–1903), an associate of Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, and her maternal grandmother, educator Mary Julia Ross (1890–1991), who was the first of three college-educated generations—a rarity for most American families in the first half of the 20th century." facebook.com/BrownGirlCollec… Oct. 1st Althea T.L. Simmons. "Althea T. L. Simmons was an active member of the NAACP for thirty-five years and led the organization's lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., in the 1980s." tshaonline.org/handbook/entr…

Your call, CIA? NSA? Some sniper who failed to qualify last time?

A great video! Watch and share! And give!