To Inspire You

If the problem of the twentieth century was, in W. E. B. Du Bois's famous words, the problem of the color line, then the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknowledge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification

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Today In History

• In 1938 - Crystal Byrd Fauset elected to Pennsylvania House of Representatives, becoming first black female elected to a state legislature
  
• In 1944 - Matthew Henson receives medal from Congress as codiscoverer of North Pole