Matthew Dowd 'Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.'

This is true…..

On this day in 1975:
Judge Damon Keith orders city of Hamtramck to create housing for 500 Blacks who were displaced by urban renewal programs during 1960s. In 1971, Garrett v. City of Hamtramck Keith ruled that Hamtramck practiced 'Negro removal.' Case will be settled in 2024.

LRIP French writer Victor Hugo, died today 1885

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”

“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his

RIP writer Langston Hughes, died today 1967, leader of Harlem Renaissance.
“Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean-
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.”
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain

George McLaurin made history as the first black man admitted to Oklahoma University in 1948. Despite being segregated and forced to sit away from his white peers, McLaurin's name still shines on the honor list as one of the top three students in the college.

These are his words:

Matthew Dowd Happy birthday Andrey Sakharov. 🎂

happy bday Australian poet/feminist Dorothy Hewett, b. 1923.

'The dark fires shall burn in many rooms;
will they sometimes miss me with my tangled hair—
still girls in dark uniforms
crouching in winter with their cold hands trembling,
still voices echoing as our voices echoed

On this day in 1961, a white mob terrorized 1,000 Black residents supporting civil rights inside Montgomery's First Baptist Church. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

happy bday Soviet physicist/human rights advocate Andrey Sakharov, b1921, won Nobel Prize for Peace, 1975.

“You can’t sit on two chairs at once.”

'I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I

Who's on first defense by Trump team was only missing Abbott today.

That kid was born to be a leader 🥹❤️

Watch till the end.

Feliz cumpleaños a Honoré de Balzac, escritor 🇫🇷 nacido en 1799.

“Cuanto más se juzga, menos se ama”.

“¿Quién puede decidir cuál es el espectáculo más sombrío: corazones marchitos o cráneos vacíos?”

Happy bday Danish-born Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset b.1882, won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

'It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.”

happy bday French writer Honoré de Balzac, b.1799.

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
“Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?”

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On this day in 1918, a white mob from Brooks County, Georgia, lynched Mary Turner, a Black woman who was 8 months pregnant, for speaking out against the lynching of her husband the day before. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

happy bday Indian writer Ruskin Bond, b.1934.

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
“Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour

Matthew Dowd Happy birthday Lorraine Hansberry! 🎂

happy bday writer Lorraine Hansberry, b.1930, Chicago, first African-American female to have a play performed on Broadway.
'One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.'