Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts
Friday, August 07, 2020

25th Anniversary Of Tyra Hunter's Death

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Tyra Hunter should be with us right now eagerly anticipating the celebration of her 50th birthday. But instead, her life tragically ended...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

20th Anniversary of Love and Basketball

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One of my fave romantic movies was released 20 years ago today in the Gina Prince Bythewood directed film Love and Basketball that starred...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

400 Years of Africans In America

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Today is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of captive Africans at Old Point Comfort in what would later become Fort Monroe in Hampton...
Tuesday, June 04, 2019

30th Anniversary of the Crushing of the Tiananmen Square Demonstrations

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'It's a reminder to those of us who live in democracies that as much as we gripe about the imperfect nature of the governments we ...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

Happy 25th Transiversary To Moi!

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April 4 to me is not just the day that Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis.   It is also the day in 1994 that I nervously walked into Ter...
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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Happy TDOV 2019, Everyone!

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Today is not on the Transgender Day of Visibility, it is the tenth anniversary celebration of this day It is a day that  Rachel Crandall...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Tenth Anniversary of Transgender Day of Visibility This Sunday

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On March 31, 2009,  Rachel Crandall created the International Transgender Day of Visibility as a counter to the Transgender Day of Remembr...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Happy 111th Anniversary AKA!

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Couldn't let today pass without showing some love to all the women in my life who are the pretty girls that wear 20 pearls and proudly...
Monday, December 24, 2018

Apollo 8 50th Anniversary

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Fifty years ago today the Apollo 8 mission was launched just four days before Christmas. 1968 had been a rough, tumultuous year.  We'...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

30th Anniversary Of Ann Richards DNC Keynote Speech

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Thirty years ago today Ann Richards, who was our state treasurer at the time, gave  the keynote address to the Democratic National Convent...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

50th Anniversary Of The 'I've Been To The Mountaintop' Speech

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's  'I've Been To The Mountaintop' Speech.  It was del...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

50th Anniversary of the 'Game Of The Century'

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Would have been nice if on this January 20 date the University of Houston and UCLA would have played at NRG Stadium on the 50th anniversar...
Monday, January 08, 2018

45th Anniversary of School House Rock

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Back in 1973 as my brother and I, and later my sisters watched Saturday morning cartoons on ABC, some of the advertising breaks were taken...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Gwen Araujo Murder 15th Anniversary

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Today is sadly the 15th anniversary of the day that trans teen Gwen Araujo was murdered in Newark, California by four men, Jason Cazares, ...
Tuesday, October 03, 2017

Happy 25th Anniversary To The Obamas!

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Today is the day back in 1993 that the skinny kid from Hawaii with the funny name got married to a brilliant statuesque sister from the So...
Monday, October 02, 2017

50th Anniversary of Thurgood Marshall Becoming First Black SCOTUS Justice

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With all the horrible news coming out of Las Vegas concerning our latest domestic terrorist attack,  almost slipped my mind that today was...