27 years. ❤️ He still takes his blind friend to church. In a world where people walk away so easily, this kind of loyalty is rare. Some friendships are truly family. 🥹
Anok Yai is living the American dream.
She has become the fashion face of her generation—a supermodel who is also an immigrant, daughter of South Sudanese refugees, and citizen of the United States.
“Like Yai,” Vanity Fair’s José Criales-Unzueta writes, “I am an immigrant; unlike her, I did not grow up in the United States. But we share an indelible part of the American experience: This country afforded us the space and the opportunity to become. Our generation has a contentious relationship with Americanness and its symbols, which have been co-opted by a pocket of this country that does not always represent people like Yai or me—or those with less privilege and therefore less opportunity. A pocket that demonstrably does not want us here. But in Yai’s story, and in my own as I write this today, I see the realization of the dream we were both promised.”
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Happy Birthday to lawyer, civil rights activist and Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall.
US Supreme Court’s first Black Justice
Brown v. Board of Education
Founded the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Lincoln 🔶🔷 & Howard Grad 🦬
BOYZ N THE HOOD was released 35 years ago today.
At just 23 years old, John Singleton became the youngest person ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the first Black filmmaker to receive the nomination.