Encouragement For The Day

Rev.Fred Luther Jr. became the first Black man to become president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

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Gen. Lloyd J. Austin lll in January 2012 he was Sworn in as the No.2 general in the U.S.Army and became its first Black vice Chief of Staff.

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TJ Martin is the first African-American to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

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Ava DuVernay is the first Black Woman to win a Best Director prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Omega Psi Phi is the first predominantly African-American fraternity to be founded at a historically black university.

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Xavier University is the only historically black Roman Catholic institution of higher education.

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First institute of higher learning Created to educate African Americans: Ashmun Institute in Pennsylvania renamed Lincoln University in 1866.

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I am Somebody I am Somebody I may be Poor but I am Someboody I may be young but I am Somebody I may be on Welfare but I am Somebody I may be Small but I am Somebody I may make a Mistake but I am Somebody My Clothes are Different My Face is Different My Hair is Different but I am Somebody I am Black Brown Write I speak a Different Language but I must be Respected Protected never Rejected I am God’s Child I am Someboby.
by Jesse Jackson

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Lift Every Voice and Sing often Called The Negro National Hymn, The Negro National Anthem, The Black National Anthem, or The African-American National Anthem is a Song Written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson in 1900. I had to Learn it for a Play in School My Church Sang it every Sunday in February for Black History Here is a Video.

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