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***2026 Convention Appearance Update*** March 27-29: Fanboy Anime - Knoxville April 10-12: Nostalgia Con - Houston May 1-3 : El Paso Comic Con May 16-17: Spa Con - Hot Springs

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Hey meat sacks, give a warm Borderlandsy welcome to @JohnEricBentley - the voice of C4SH in Borderlands 4! 🎲

It's Borderlands, but for your EAR HOLES!!! We're excited to announce Dead ECHOs - a darkly comedic audio drama set in the Borderlands universe starring Watts, a disenchanted ECHO Operator, and Junie, a curious stranger with a secretive past. Season 1 is coming in Spring 2026!

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@marchimark will you have any rias prints to choose from at the Knoxville event to sign? Thank you!

***2026 Convention Appearance Update*** March 27-29: Fanboy Anime - Knoxville April 10-12: Nostalgia Con - Houston May 1-3 : TBA May 16-17: Spa Con - Hot Springs

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Anna Murray Douglass is often overshadowed by her husband, Frederick Douglass — yet she made his freedom and his life’s work possible. Born free in Maryland around 1813, Anna Murray grew up witnessing the harsh realities of slavery in a border state. As a young woman working in Baltimore, she met Frederick Douglass while he was still enslaved. When he made plans to escape in 1838, it was Anna who played a crucial role in making that freedom possible. She provided financial support, helped organize the logistics of his departure, and gave him a sailor’s uniform that helped him travel north undetected. Shortly after his successful escape, Anna joined him in New York, and the two were married. Together they built a life dedicated to the fight against slavery and injustice. While Frederick Douglass became one of the most influential abolitionists, writers, and orators of the 19th century, Anna’s work was often carried out behind the scenes. She managed their household, raised their five children, and maintained a stable home environment that allowed Frederick to travel extensively, lecture, write, and organize. Their home in Rochester, New York, became a station on the Underground Railroad, sheltering freedom seekers on their journey north. In addition to supporting abolitionist efforts, Anna was active in women’s and community organizations, contributing to sewing circles and aid societies that supported both formerly enslaved people and soldiers during the Civil War. Though history has frequently centered Frederick Douglass’s public achievements, it is important to acknowledge that movements are rarely built by one person alone. Anna Murray Douglass’s labor, sacrifice, and steady commitment formed a foundation that made much of that public work possible. Her story reminds us that leadership takes many forms. Some voices fill lecture halls. Others sustain homes, protect communities, and quietly shape history from behind the scenes.

Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor is Walter Lincoln Hawkins. Walter Lincoln Hawkins invented a plastic coating for telephone cables that is STILL used TODAY for telephone and fiber optic cables! He and his partner Victor Lanza's invention led to the expansion of telephone service throughout the world! #BlackHistoryMonth

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Today's Black American (Freedmen) inventor is Gerald "Jerry" Lawson. Gerald "Jerry" Lawson influenced game systems like the Playstation, X-Box, and Nintendo. He invented the first video game system, Channel F, that allowed for interchangeable cartridges where you could take a game out and put in another. Another cool fact is that his video game system was the first home system to use the pause button. #BlackHistoryMonth

On February 25, 1948, at just 19 years old, my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was ordained and appointed associate minister at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta by his father, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. He had already preached his first sermon there months earlier, but that ordination marked a deeper commitment to a calling that would shape not only his life, but the conscience of a nation. Ministry for him was never confined to a pulpit. It became a lifelong pursuit of justice, love, and nonviolence. I reflect today on the courage it takes to answer a calling, especially at a young age, and on how obedience to purpose can transform the world. #MLK #EbenezerBaptistChurch #BlackHistory #BelovedCommunity

My mother, Coretta Scott King, is Black history. She was more than the wife of my father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She was the founder of The King Center, a global peacemaker, and a steadfast architect of justice. Her courage, discipline, and unwavering commitment to nonviolence helped carry the Movement forward and expand its reach around the world. Black history is not only something we study. It is something we live, protect, and continue. #CorettaScottKing #BlackHistoryMonth #MLK #BelovedCommunity #TheKingCenter

“They gave every white athlete a bus ticket. They told him Black runners didn’t qualify. So he walked 1,765 miles to prove them wrong.” In 1928, after winning the Rocky Mountain Olympic qualifier in the 5,000 meters, Kelley Dolphus Stroud was denied a bus ticket to the U.S. Olympic trials in Boston—a ticket every white qualifier received. Officials invented a rule on the spot: he hadn't "approached the previous record." Stroud, a 20-year-old Black college student from Colorado, recognized the racism dressed as paperwork. He had a choice: accept the theft of his opportunity, or chase it down on foot. With ten dollars, a golf club for protection, and a cardboard sign reading “Denver to Olympia,” he set out on Highway 40. For 12 grueling days, he walked, ran, and hitchhiked across 1,765 miles of America—sleeping in fields, surviving storms, and facing hunger and hostility. When his story reached the press, small acts of kindness helped carry him the final miles. He arrived at Harvard Stadium with just six hours before his race—exhausted, underfed, his feet bloodied. He lined up anyway. For five laps, he held on. On the sixth, his body gave out. He collapsed on the track to the sound of some spectators laughing. They didn’t see the journey. They didn’t see the courage. They only saw a fall. Stroud didn’t make the Olympic team. But he never broke. He returned to Colorado College as one of its few Black students, graduated with honors, became the first Black student elected to Phi Beta Kappa there, and later outran a 1928 Olympian in a fair rematch. He built a life of dignity, scholarship, and quiet influence. Decades later, his legacy is finally receiving its due: an arena named in his honor, a scholars program, a documentary, even an opera in the works. His story is no longer a buried footnote—it’s a testament to what happens when someone refuses to let injustice define their limits. “The true measure of a champion isn’t just how fast they run, but how far they’re willing to walk when the road is made impossibly long.” © Tales of Past #drthehistories

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A simple message with big meaning: "I am somebody." We are grateful to Rev. Jesse Jackson for helping teach generations of children to believe in themselves and in one another. Thank you for being part of our neighborhood. 💛💚

Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. devoted his life to lifting people in poverty, the marginalized, and those pushed to society’s edges. Through Operation PUSH, he pushed barriers and opened doors so Black people and other excluded communities could step into opportunity and dignity. With the Rainbow Coalition, he cast a bold vision of an inclusive society—uniting people across race, class, and faith to build power together and expand the table of economic opportunity. He was a gifted negotiator and a courageous bridge‑builder, serving humanity by bringing calm into tense rooms and creating pathways where none existed. My family shares a long and meaningful history with him, rooted in a shared commitment to justice and love. As we grieve, we give thanks for a life that pushed hope into weary places. May we honor his legacy by widening opportunity, uplifting the vulnerable, and building the Beloved Community. I send my love and prayers to the Jackson family.

The only successful preemption from a Super Bowl halftime show was Keenan Ivory Wayans’ In Living Color in 1992. It garnered about 25 mil views and the very next year the NFL asked Michael Jackson to perform, changing halftime shows forever. Keenan deserves his flowers. #BHM ☝🏽