Attend a special presentation by FSU’s new Civil Rights Institute Director Ted Ellis on Monday, 11/27, at 6:30 pm in The College of Medicine (@FSUCoM) Auditorium.
Mr. Ellis will share his plans to expand the Institute’s offerings.
Mark your calendar: https://t.co/hTatVIhO97
“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sunup to sundown as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.
Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees... Fought in World Wars as soldiers to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood... and in spite of it all someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here and you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit? How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!
Give this to your young people who don’t know their history and want to get weak!
It is NOT in our DNA to quit!”
Executive Director @CathyGorn and NHD trustee Ted Prasse are participating via Zoom in the annual NHD Board of Trustees meeting held each year during National Contest week. #NHD2020
It's time for #NHD2023! Check out these photos from the student and teacher check-in and exhibit set-up this morning.
Make sure to tag us in your #NHD2023 photos!
Photos: Michael Maloney
https://t.co/WP1ly1XWDX
T. Ellis Productions presents…🎉🎬
“JUNETEENTH CHAMPIONS”
T. Ellis Production’s “Juneteenth Champions” is an impactful and educational documentary produced by, co-directed by, and starring my son and business partner, Tanner
https://t.co/QIKKwkkvHV
Listen to these words as they make you think, how many more years before we change the narrative? Today we commemorate Philando Castille's life. 💐
I Fear 4 My Life coming July 17, 2022
#IF4ML#PhilandoCastile#grief
Famous African American Artist, Ted T. Ellis launches his "Wide World of Sports Colored Series" featuring NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace who is racing in Austin TX March 26 https://t.co/WfGMhNNj7f via @PRWeb