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Breonna Taylor would have been celebrating her 31st birthday today! Our hearts go out to her family and community as they honor Breonna! We’ll NEVER forget your story Bre and how you were so tragically taken from us! Rest In Power, angel!

“Sistah’s With Purpose” provides mentorship and scholarships to Black students pursuing a higher education, people like Kailani Williams Scipio. I applaud these women for helping students achieve their college goals — it truly takes a village to shape successful young adults!

If We Must Die by Claude McKay. One of the greatest poems in literary history. Take a few minutes to read this powerful poem written during the Harlem Renaissance and influenced by the writings and scholarship of W.E.B. DuBois. If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! —The poem entered the lexicon of those versed in great literature and poetry in the English language. It gained world fame after being quoted by Sir Winston Churchill to inspire the British in the Second World War.—

Happy birthday to the late actress, singer, and dancer Dorothy Dandridge! Dorothy Jean Dandridge was an actress and popular singer, and was the first Black American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. After several minor bit parts in films, Dandridge landed her first noted film role in Tarzan's Peril (starring Lex Barker), in 1951. Dandridge won her first starring role in 1953, playing a teacher in a low-budget film with a nearly all-black cast, Bright Road, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1954, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and in 1959 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999, she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, starring Halle Berry as Dandridge. She has been recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dandridge was married and divorced twice, first to dancer and entertainer Harold Nicholas (the father of her daughter, Harolyn Suzanne) and then to Jack Denison. She died at age 42. LEGACY: 🎥Many years passed before the entertainment industry acknowledged Dandridge's legacy. Starting in the 1980s, stars such as Cicely Tyson, Jada Pinkett Smith, Halle Berry, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett acknowledged Dandridge's contributions to the role of African-Americans in film. 🎥In 1999, Halle Berry took the lead role of Dandridge in the HBO Movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which she also produced and for which she won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. When Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball, she dedicated the "moment [to] Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll." Both Dandridge and Berry were from Cleveland, Ohio. 🎥For her contributions to the motion picture industry, she was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 671 Hollywood Boulevard. 🎥Dorothy Dandridge has a statue at Hollywood-La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles, designed by Catherine Hardwicke built to honor of multi-ethnic leading ladies of the cinema together with Mae West, Dolores del Rio and Anna May Wong. 🖋️you can support (donate) or follow our ko-fi page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the page too for weekly posts roundup)

Yesterday, we witnessed historic wins for Black Americans across the nation! Let this be a reminder that diversity and representation are important at every level of government. Congratulations to these newly elected officials! #AdvocacyinAction 🔗: bit.ly/4761grC

In 2018, 13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner started a small business selling $2 hot dogs with $1 sodas and chips from a stand in front of his house in Minnesota. But his small business was in jeopardy after someone reported him to the Minneapolis Health Department. Impressed by the young man’s drive, health inspectors decided to teach the young entrepreneur about proper food handling to assist him in getting his hot dog stand up to code. The teen’s stand passed inspection, and it was the inspectors themselves who paid the $87 fee for his “short-term food permit."

Churches in Florida are offering Black history lessons as part of their services! It’s amazing to see these churches take the lead in ensuring Black history is never forgotten, ESPECIALLY in a state where they are trying to suppress it! Black history is American history!

JUST IN: We just received this video showing the moments a car chase reached an apartment complex on Madison's east side and a person in the vehicle raced inside.

Chicago-style restaurant House of Flavas continues to grow beyond its East Side storefront with interesting events like the upcoming Adult Prom Night at the Goodman Community Center. buff.ly/49cVSok

A new app, created in Dane Co, aims to make it easier than ever to get connected to community resources. The @unitedwaydaneco hopes the 211 Wisconsin app helps reach people in need of help with housing, mental health services, food, and more. Learn more: unitedwaydanecounty.org/get-help/2-1-1/

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All ages are invited to @MononaTerrace rooftop on Fri, 10/20 from 7- 9:30 pm to view the moon and other celestial objects such as Jupiter and Saturn through a multitude of different telescopes provided by the Madison Astronomical Society. Learn more here: cityofmadison.com/news/moon-over…

Beautiful! These elementary school students sound amazing. 🔥👏🏾 Never tell our children what they can’t do — they’ll just prove the naysayers wrong. 🎥: TikTok/the_music.teacher

In the latest Race to Equity report from @KidsForwardWI, it's apparent there's much work to do locally across a multitude of metrics including economics, education, and health. Read more via @madison_365: madison365.com/new-race-to-eq…

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there." —Malcolm X

Urban Triage releases the following press release and Call To Action for community solutions related to recent youth involved shootings and homicides: urbantriage.org/press-release-… #EnoughIsEnough #PutTheGunsDown #ProtectOurYouth

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Black men make up less than 2% of teachers in the U.S. The Literacy Lab is working to change that. Having a teacher of the same race is important for students of color! We need more exemplary Black men in the classroom!