To Inspire You

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy, a strength, a secret cup of gladness

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Today In History

• In 1790 - Jean Baptist Pointe Desable, a French speaking Santo Domingo native, becomes the first permanent resident and thus founder of Chicago.
  
• In 2009 - Alysa Stanton becomes the first African-American woman ever to be ordained as a rabbi and the first African-American rabbi to lead a majority white congregation