Dana Ann

Go ask your questions!

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987). He was a close adviser to King and the nonviolent movement, often marginalized or kept out of public discussions because he was openly gay. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. #BlackHistoryMonth #AmericanHistory

Fannie Lou Hamer was an African American civil rights activist who led voting drives and co-founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

Truth!

Azellia White, one of the nation’s first African American female pilots, earned her pilot’s license just after World War II and found freedom flying in the skies above the Jim Crow South.

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

From Google:
The Gulf of Mexico is endowed with a variety of tremendously productive habitats. Wetlands of the Gulf comprise nearly 50 percent of the nation's total coastal wetlands. There are important and unique coral reef ecosystems, such as the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.

John Cromwell, Jr., CPA is well-known as the first Black CPA in the United States. Cromwell overcame many barriers to entry – some of which still exist. At the time of his licensure, he wasn't allowed to sit for the CPA Exam in Washington, D.C., Virginia or Maryland, which is where he lived.

Project 2025 was unpopular because of things like the plan for Trump to shut down the CFPB, which helps you get your money back if a bank cheats you.

It is a good day to try something new!

Kizzmekia Corbett
A doctor who helped develop one of the first COVID vaccines while working on Dr. Anthony Fauci's team at the NIH.

“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” — Thurgood Marshall ~1978

Condoleezza Rice
The first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State. She was also the highest-ranking woman in the presidential line of succession.