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To Inspire You

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class--it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity


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Today In History

Black History Month
  • In 1990 - Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years as South African political prisoner
  • In 2016 - Dr. Paula Johnson, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, is named as the 14th President of Wellesley College, becoming the first African American to hold the position
  • In 1996 - Penn's Baccalaureate Speaker was the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
  • In 1976 - Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army