To Inspire You

I am not lucky. You know what I am? I am smart, I am talented. I take advantage of the opportunities that come my way and I work really, really hard. Don't call me lucky. Call me a badass.

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Today In History

• In 1839 - Liberty Party, first anti-slavery political party, organized at Warsaw, NY
  
• In 1894 - A.C. Richardson patents the casket lowering device
  
• In 1913 - Daniel Hale Williams becomes first black elected to American College of Surgeons. Was also first person to perform open heart surgery
  
• In 1940 - Supreme Court ruled in Hansberry v. Lee that whites can't bar African Americans from white neighborhoods