To Inspire You

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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Today In History

• In 1853 - William Wells Brown published Clotel, the first novel by a Black American
  
• In 1957 - The first Black woman tennis champion, Althea Gibson,win's the women's Wimbledon singles championship