To Inspire You

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear our presence liberates others.

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Today In History

• In 1885 - Samuel David Ferguson consecrated bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church and named bishop of Liberia. He was the first Black American with full membership in the House of Bishops
  
• In 1884 - John R. Lynch, former congressman from Mississippi, elected temporary chairman of Republican convention and became first Black to preside over deliberations of a national political party