To Inspire You

THE WALLS between old allies on either side of the Atlantic CANNOT STAND. THE WALLS between the countries with the most and those with the least CANNOT STAND. THE WALLS between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew CANNOT STAND. THESE NOW ARE THE WALLS WE MUST TEAR DOWN.

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Today In History

• In 1942 - First Black captain of a US merchant ship, Hugh Mulzac, launches with the Booker T Washington
  
• In 1979 - Sir William Arthur Lewis, Professor of Economics Princeton University, became the first black to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics
  
• In 1980 - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture opens new building on Lenox Avenue in Harlem, NYC