A personal hero of mine as an actor and an activist. He has lead us all as a beacon of true North in is work as an actor and American.
“Strong Men”
by Sterling A. Brown.
🚨 BREAKING:
World-renowned US rapper Kendrick Lamar:
"Donald Trump is a narcissist who runs a country built on fear and division, trampling over democratic values; you either stand for equality and the truth, or you are part of this climate of hate."
The DOJ just sued Evanston, Illinois — paid reparations to Black families. $25K for documented housing discrimination. Funded by cannabis taxes. Not a single federal dollar. Over $7 million already distributed. And Harmeet Dhillon called it “race discrimination.”
Mr. T. on how he chose his name: I think about my father being called "boy", my uncle being called "boy", my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called "boy".
So I questioned myself:
"What does a black man have to do before he's given respect as a man?"
So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man.
I self-ordained myself Mr. T, so the first word out of everybody's mouth is "Mr.""
John Rogan was 8 feet 9 inches tall, the son of formerly enslaved sharecroppers, and he got around on a cart pulled by goats. He turned down every sideshow offer. When he died in 1905, his family buried him under concrete so nobody could dig him up.