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Providing students worldwide with the resources they need to develop knowledge and become productive members of society one donation at a time!

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insight on the ever changing scene of sports and technology and how those two will go hand in hand in the future!
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Make sure to subscribe to the YouTube page and go download the Squadz app and visit their site!
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BALL2BOOKS SPOTLIGHT‼️
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@squadznik is the founder of @squadz , an app and platform that is changing the way pick up sports are being played!
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A San Francisco Bay Area native who spent some time in Baltimore, playing basketball at @johnshopkinsu, Nikhil gave us some great

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#charliemitchell #blackhistorymonth #ball2books

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Today we are highlighting Charlie Mitchell!!
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@chuckgood made history as the only Black chef to receive a Michelin star in New York City and only the second in the country!
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Charlie Mitchell is a Detroit native whose grandmother

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already earned its first Michelin star and Mitchell was named Best Young Chef by Michelin. He is now the first Black chef in New York City to achieve such a feat and the second Black chef in the nation to earn a Michelin star🙌🏽

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#blackhistorymonth #claudettecolvin #ball2books

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Today we are highlighting Claudette Colvin!
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Before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, there was a brave 15-year-old who chose not to sit at the back of the bus. That young girl was Colvin. Touting

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her constitutional rights to remain seated near the middle of the vehicle, Colvin challenged the driver and was subsequently arrested. She was the first woman to be detained for her resistance. However, her story isn't nearly as well-known as Parks's.

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the issue, which even led to a protest on the day of the board meeting. Her efforts prevailed, and the school changed its name, eliminating all traces of Robert E. Lee.
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#blackhistorymonth #trudelamb #ball2books

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Today we are highlighting Trude Lamb!
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I’m 2020, Lamb a track and cross country star at Robert E. Lee High School in Texas, wrote a letter to her school board stating that she will no longer be wearing her school jersey. As a

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student from Ghana at a school named after a slave-owning Confederate general, she felt uncomfortable playing sports and attending a school wearing the name of someone who participated in the oppression and abuse of her community.
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Lamb’s letter brought widespread attention to

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science, technology, engineering and math!
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#syndeybarber #navalacademy #blackhistorymonth #ball2books

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Today we are highlighting Sydney Barber!!
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At 21, Barber became the United States
Naval Academy’s first African American woman brigade commander, leading over 4,000 midshipmen and a staff of 30 people. But Barber’s accomplishments don’t

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end there. Barber serves as the secretary of the National Society of Black Engineers, sings as part of the Naval Academy’s gospel choir, and has performed humanitarian work in India and the Dominican Republic. Barber also started a program to mentor young girls of color studying

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EGOT status, and the 18th person to receive the honor overall🙌🏽
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Today we are highlighting @violadavis and her recent Grammy win!!
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Viola Davis has achieved EGOT status, after picking up her first Grammy.
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The 57-year-old actor won the award for the best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording

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for her memoir, Finding Me, at the 2023 Grammy Awards premiere ceremony!
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The honor follows her Emmy win for How to Get Away With Murder (2015), an Oscar for Fences (2017), and a Tony for both King Hedley II (2001) and Fences (2010).
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She's only the third Black woman to claim

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#blackhistorymonth #sarahbooneinventedtheironingboard #ball2books #sarahboone

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Today we are highlighting Sarah Boone!
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Sarah Boone was an African American dressmaker who made her name by inventing the modern-day ironing board. In her patent application, she wrote that the purpose of her invention was "to produce a

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cheap, simple, convenient and highly effective device, particularly adapted to be used in ironing the sleeves and bodies of ladies' garments." With its approval in 1892, Boone became one of the first African American women to be awarded a patent‼️
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