Black History Month, day 12 Kentucky history! Luska Joseph Twyman was born in Hiseville (Barren Co.). He graduated from Kentucky State University and was later a member of Board of Regents. As principal of Ralph J. Bunche School, Twyman led its merger with Glasgow HS to achieve integration.

Black History Month, day 11 Vivien T. Thomas was born in New Iberia, Louisiana on August 29, 1910. His family later moved to Nashville, TN. In 1929, after working as an orderly in a private infirmary to raise money for college, he enrolled as a premed student.

Black History Month, day 10 Matilda McCrear (birth name Abake) was captured by slave traders in West Africa’s Kingdom of Dahomey when she was just 2 years old and taken to the USA on the Clotilda, the last ship to transport enslaved Africans to the country when it docked in Mobile, AL, in July 1860

Black history month, day 9 Born into slavery in 1858 in Raleigh, NC, Anna Haywood married George A.G. Cooper in 1877. When her husband died 2 years later, Cooper decided to pursue a college degree. She attended Oberlin College on a scholarship, earning a BA in 1884 and a masters in math in 1887.

Black History Month, day 8 Michelle Obama is a lawyer, writer, and the wife of the 44th president, Barack Obama. She was the first African American first lady of the United States. As an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education,

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Black History Month, day 7 Barack Obama was the 44th US President and made history as the first African-American to hold the office. He was the first African American to be president of the Harvard Law Review. Under his administration, Obama launched the White House Initiative on HBCUs

Black History Month, day 6 On June 29, 1908, Marie C Bolden, 8th grader, won the first National Education Association Spelling Bee at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. Bolden was the individual champion and Cleveland won the team championship.

Missed day 5 of Black History Month In 1881, Hampton University, my alma mater, was honored to host King of Hawai’i, David Kalakaua, while traveling on a world tour. While at Hampton Institute, he toured the grounds and met with students on September 29, 1881.

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If You Get This Amazon Product Recall Message, It’s An Attack

Black history month, day 4 Lloyd Lionel Gaines applied to the University of Missouri School of Law in 1936. Despite an outstanding scholastic record, Gaines was denied admission based on the grounds that Missouri’s Constitution called for “separate education of the races.”

🚨BREAKING: This brave immigration attorney is blowing the whistle on ICE saying agents are keeping all the Immigrants’ money, jewelry, Work Visas and any state documentation they had on them when detained. This is disgusting. #FundHealthcareOverICE

More attention here, please.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

Parents are afraid to send their kids to school, classrooms sit half-empty, children are being taken to detention facilities. We’ve crossed a line. I stood with education leaders to discuss the growing harm federal actions are causing to children, families, and our schools.

Black history month, day 3 Before there was Rosa....there was Irene. In July 1944, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy made a courageous decision that would turn into one of the first major advancements in the American Civil Rights Movement. Kirkaldy, recovering from a miscarriage, boarded a Greyhound bus in

Black history month day 2 Sarah Forten Purvis was a Black poet and abolitionist born in PA. Her father was the Black abolitionist James Forten. She and her sisters received a private education and were members of the Female Literary Association, a sisterhood of Black women.

A reminder that the New England Patriots plane is flown by Omni air who contracts with ICE to fly people in chains to Africa and Asia several times per week. Go Seahawks.

Maria Stewart was born in CT in 1803. She was born a free African-American woman, orphaned at age 5 after losing her parents. A self-taught reader and writer, in 1831 she heard a request by William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, for Black women to write for the abolitionist newspaper.

#CrueltyIsThePoint Homeless people, veterans & former foster children will lose exemptions to the work requirements & the age limit is raised from 54 to 64. New SNAP work requirements set to go into effect on Feb. 1 with millions at risk of losing benefits - ABC News share.google/F6j2rTfLmrJ3...

Decided to do a puzzle before moving on to the next cross-stitch. I had gotten this for nephew but he said it was too hard!

No arrests of the ICE thugs who murdered Alex Pretti, Renee Good, or Keith Porter. No arrests of anyone in the Epstein Files. But they arrested Don Lemon because of his journalism.

New information from DHS documents shows ICE is now using AI tools from Palantir to help process tips submitted to its public tipline by pulling summaries and quick takeaways to help agents act faster.

Surprise surprise

NBA star Tyrese Halliburton speaks out

Finding a moment of peace amidst this country’s chaos. My heart goes out to to the people of Minneapolis.

Please be mindful when making purchases. There are sooooo many recalls right now - www.whas11.com/article/news...

“This seems totally insane,” one staffer said of a $2.1 million renovation plan for office enhancement.

The fused glass pieces that my nephew and I made at Mark Payton glass center. Check it out if looking for something to do!

I live in a crazy time. - Anne Frank

Message for today: Excellence irritates mediocrity. - Dr. Shull

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

From today’s work mini-session: Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that you don’t put tomatoes in a fruit salad!

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Isn't it odd that the United States has enough money to suddenly run Venezuela, but not enough to run our own country? There is always cash in the piggy bank for bombs to kill people, but never for healthcare to keep them alive.

Why is the US bombing Venezuela and capturing the president there????? WTH! i usually email my Congress people but today they had to get voicemails first thing this morning. Call yours too!!

Ready for 2026. Happy new year to you!

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

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Evening chuckle 🤭 😂

This is insane smh

Holiday cheer even at the dentist office!

Thank you @muellershewrote.com for pushing this out. This is horrific!!!!!

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!