To Inspire You

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

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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