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🎉🎁🎂Happy Birthday to actress Sanaa McCoy Lathan. As a voice actress, from 2009 to 2013, Sanaa voiced Donna Tubbs in “The Cleveland Show'' and in all concurrent and subsequent “Family Guy” appearances. She has starred in many films, including “The Best Man” and its 2013 sequel, “The Best Man Holiday”. Sanaa’s other film credits include “Love & Basketball”, “Brown Sugar”, “Alien vs. Predator”, and many more. ​On stage, Sanaa was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in “A Raisin in the Sun” and starred in the all-black performance of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' at the Novello Theatre in London. Watch Sanaa Lathan talk about becoming a legacy https://youtu.be/9LU0f91qb2Q

Reference: https://www.empireonline.com/people/sanaa-lathan/

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🎉🎁🎂Happy Birthday to mathematician and human computer, Dorothy Johnson Vaughan. Dorothy worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the first African American woman to supervise a group of staff at the center. During her 28-year career, Dorothy prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early 1960s by teaching herself and her staff the programming language of Fortran. She is one of the women featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's history “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.” It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name and released in 2016. Watch this video and learn more about Dorothy Johnson Vaughan https://youtu.be/RQUoUknXMFY

Reference: https://www.nasa.gov/content/dorothy-vaughan-biography

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On September 25th,1957 the Little Rock Nine started their first full day of school. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops to prevent its federal court-ordered racial integration. After a tense standoff, President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1,000 army paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the court order. Learn more about the Little Rock Nine by visiting the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/little-rock-nine

✊🏾Reference: https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/little-rock-nine

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