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[FEMA @fema]

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[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

Yesterday in Geneva, countries finalized a draft global agreement aimed at improving how the world prepares for and responds to pandemics.

Here are 5⃣ facts to know:

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

That time friends teamed up to rescue a physically impaired man from the 3rd floor of a building in France

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[World Events Service @ServiceEvents]

Now that's being prepared. When you gotta go you gotta go.

[Johnny St.Pete @JohnMcCloy]

@nypost I told ya LOL.

[EBONY @EBONY]

Today we say goodbye to James Earl Jones, whose iconic voice and 60-year career shaped generations. An EGOT winner, a giant in storytelling and culture— his legacy will live on forever. Rest in power.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1838, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and found his calling as a leading voice in the abolitionist movement.

Douglass escaped slavery by boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. He was dressed in a sailor's uniform, provided to him by Anna Murray, (he married her 12 days later, she was a free black woman in Baltimore) she also gave him part of her savings to cover his travel costs, and carried identification papers which he had obtained from a free black seaman.

He crossed the Susquehanna River by ferry at Havre de Grace, then continued by train to Wilmington, Delaware. From there he went by steamboat to "Quaker City" (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.

Frederick Douglass later wrote of his arrival in New York:

"I have often been asked, how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. And my readers may share the same curiosity. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not give a more satisfactory answer. A new world had opened upon me. If life is more than breath, and the 'quick round of blood,' I lived more in one day than in a year of my slave life. It was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. In a letter written to a friend soon after reaching New York, I said: 'I felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions.' Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil."

Frederick Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him out from his owner Colonel Lloyd, but was unsuccessful. In 1836, he tried to escape from his new owner Covey, but failed again.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, her freedom strengthened his belief in the possibility of his own.

Once he had arrived, he sent for Murray to follow him to New York; she arrived with the necessary basics for them to set up home. They were married on September 15, 1838, by a black Presbyterian minister eleven days after his arrival in New York.

[the rookie @PCondlin]

@AfricanArchives

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1963, W.E.B DuBois died in the town of Accra, Ghana, at the age of 95.

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was buried in Accra near his home, which is now the Du Bois Memorial Centre. A day after his death, at the March on Washington, speaker Roy Wilkins asked the hundreds of thousands of marchers to honor Du Bois with a moment of silence. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, embodying many of the reforms Du Bois had campaigned for his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.

"W. E. B." Du Bois, was a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.

Du Bois rose to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists who wanted equal rights for blacks. Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta Compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities. Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite. He referred to this group as the talented tenth and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.

Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment. His cause included colored persons everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in their struggles against colonialism and imperialism. He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to free African colonies from European powers. Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia. After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread bigotry in the United States military.

Du Bois was a prolific author. His collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, was a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction in America challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction era. He wrote the first scientific treatise in the field of sociology; and he published three autobiographies, each of which contains insightful essays on sociology, politics and history. In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal The Crisis, he published many influential pieces. Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life. He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament. The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.

HONORS:
🎖The NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Du Bois in 1920.

🎖Du Bois was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize by the USSR in 1959.

🎖The site of the house where Du Bois grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.

🎖In 1992 the United States Postal Service honored Du Bois with his portrait on a postage stamp. A second stamp of face value 32¢ was issued on 3 February 1998 as part of the Celebrate the Century stamp sheet series. In 1994, the main library at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was named after Du Bois.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: More than 2,000 people were thought to have been buried alive in a landslide in Papua New Guinea, officials said, a sharp rise in the toll. https://t.co/yUZQ73reYL

[New York Post @nypost]

More than 2,000 could be buried in Papua New Guinea landslide, authorities say https://t.co/DIZ0imJajQ

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

As many as 2,000 people feared buried under massive Papua New Guinea landslide, national disaster agency says https://t.co/Yrz9dUDwxU

[FirstNet Authority @FirstNetGov]

#HurricanePrep: The best time to prepare for hurricanes is BEFORE hurricane season begins. See how #FirstNet is helping responders in St. Augustine, Florida, be #HurricaneStrong: https://t.co/dKUQd1o0aR

[Readygov @Readygov]

We’re emergency managers, of course we have all the tips to help you prepare in case of a disaster 😉.

[Black Enterprise @blackenterprise]

A pioneering figure in American finance, Maggie L. Walker made history as the first Black woman to charter a bank and assume the role of bank president. ⁠

[World Events Service @ServiceEvents]

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[World Events Service @ServiceEvents]

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[World Events Service @ServiceEvents]

I am excited and thankful as a minority business owner to have graduated from the Chase Minority Entrepreneur Focus Program.

@Chase Shelia Winston, MBA, CSBC, is a strong influence and the focal point on our abilities and goals as a contributor to our economy here in the U.S.

[USAID @USAID]

.@USAIDCtrAsia has worked in partnership with the countries of Central Asia since their independence in the early 1990s.

Learn how our programs are helping to foster resilient, growth-oriented, inclusive communities: https://t.co/Abh324wEo7