Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927-January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, director, producer, activist, and diplomat during the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 1964, he became the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field (1963) 🌺
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That's a wrap on Creative Jam 2025! Last week we had an amazing create-a-thon surrounding the theme of compassion in our personal lives, society, and infrastructure. Thank you to all of the TaskForce organizers, speakers, artists, our host Hannah Rad, DJ Kwame, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for making this possible. We had so many wonderful artists, poets, and musicians share their creative process and create beautiful work. Posted are a few of our favorites, but check out the rest on library.into-action.us/collection/compassion-in-action-creative-jam and on AllBetter.art 🖍
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Today is Day of Remembrance for Japanese Internment. This day commemorates the signing of Executive Order 9066 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. This order led to the forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Fred Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment becoming a fugitive, refusing to leave the exclusion zone. History repeats itself if we do not learn from it. Speak up, speak out 📢
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Happy Birthday Toni Morrison! Morrison (February 18, 1931-August 5, 2019) was a writer, editor, playwright, and Nobel Laureate who’s most known for the novels Song of Solomon, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.
"The function of freedom is to free someone else." Commencement speech at Barnard College, 1979
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Happy Birthday Audre Lorde! Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934-November 17, 1992) described herself as a “Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, poet”. In 1980, she co-founded Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color, with Barbara Smith and Cherríe Moraga. Some of her most well known writing is, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Coal, The Black Unicorn, Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems. Her work deals with the Black feminine experience, Lesbianism, disability, illness, civil rights, and Black Liberation.
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." Audre Lorde
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Happy Lunar New Year! Sending love and health in the Year of the Wood Snake 🐍🧧
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Happy MLK Day! Check out our GIFs and memes to remember and celebrate Dr. King ✊ "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." MLK
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