To Inspire You

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Marian Anderson »

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