To Inspire You

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi...has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.

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Today In History

• In 1991 - Baltimore Orioles manager Frank Robinson is named assistant general manager of the club, the third African American to become as assistant GM
  
• In 1922 - Samuel Gravely, first African American admiral in the U.S. Navy, and first African American to command a U.S. warship, born