“Defend those who cannot help themselves. Speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.” Proverbs 8-9, Living Bible
We have got to put mass shootings to a stop.
Florida politicians' nerve to vote and censor how Black History is taught, while suggesting our ancestors benefited from enslavement despite experiencing suffering, murder, genocide, lynching, rape, torture, and family separation, is reprehensible.
This is #TheInconvenientKing.
This is a clip of my father that anyone who only quotes one MLK line from the end of ‘I Have a Dream’ should watch/hear.
And he didn’t evolve to working for economic + racial justice right before he was assassinated.
He talked about it in IHAD.
Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone.
Age at first $1 Billion:
• 23 Mark Zuckerberg
• 31 Elon Musk
• 31 Bill Gates
• 32 Rihanna
• 35 Jeff Bezos
• 35 Steve Jobs
• 39 Beyoncé
• 40 Oprah
• 42 Jay-Z
• 51 Michael Jordan
• 56 Warren Buffett
1 important lesson from each: