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Patrisse Cullors – BLM co-founder & Social justice warrior

On Feb 9, 2018, I was among thousands of librarians attending the 2018 American Library Association Midwinter conference in Denver, Colorado. Patrtisse Cullors, one of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter network, presented the opening keynote for the conference. Cullors is a performance artist, organizer, and freedom fighter. As a child, she believed her […]

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Claudette Colvin – unsung Heroine of Black America –

Almost everyone has heard of Rosa Parks. The name Claudette Colvin remains almost unknown, except by inhabitants of the King Hill neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama. Go there and say her name and residents will proudly tell you, “she was the first.” In 1955, Claudette was a fifteen-year-old “A” student at Montgomery’s Booker T Washington High

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