https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Jean-Baptiste

Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste (born 26 April 1967) is an English actress. She is known for her role in Mike Leigh‘s drama film Secrets & Lies (1996), for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_C._Jones

Laurence Clifton Jones (November 21, 1882 – July 13, 1975),^[1] was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in Rankin County, Mississippi.^[2] A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African-American students in the segregated South.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-T_Fagbenle

Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun “O-T” Fagbenle Listen^ⓘ (Yoruba: Ọlátúndé Ọlátẹ́jú Ọláọlọ́run Fágbénlé; born 22 January 1981)^[1][2] is an English actor, writer, and director. He has appeared in several films, stage, and television productions. He is best known for his role as Lucas Bankole in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017–2025), for which he received an Emmy nomination,^[3] and his portrayal of Barack Obama in The First Lady (2022).

https://www.joshjohnsoncomedy.com/about

Josh Johnson is an Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comedian, actor, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He was just named as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central’s Emmy & Peabody Award-winning program The Daily Show where he was previously a writer for the past six years. Johnson is also a former writer and performer on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut in 2017. In addition, he is Comedy Central’s ‘most watched comedian ever’ with 40M+ views to date across their platforms. 

“Everything I do is to try to address or to try to contribute to a world that’s more balanced” 

Sehin Teferra is an Ethiopian activist and Director of Womankind partner Setaweet. She defines herself as a feminist and is keen on debunking myths around it. 

Her #EverydayFeminism is focused on building allyship and solidarity. She believes men can also be feminists and their feminist awakening can begin when they acknowledge their own privilege and connect it to their own forms of oppression. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barnor

James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV (born 6 June 1929)^[2] is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences.

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https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/12/26/g-s1-36633/fish-sea-madagascar-climate-change-diving

Fishermen, known as ‘Sea Nomads,’ dive to protect ocean life in Madagascar

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/nx-s1-5241134/greg-gumbel-sportscaster-dies

Greg Gumbel, a longtime CBS sportscaster, has died from cancer, according to a statement from family released by CBS on Friday. He was 78.

“He leaves behind a legacy of love, inspiration and dedication to over 50 extraordinary years in the sports broadcast industry; and his iconic voice will never be forgotten,” his wife Marcy Gumbel and daughter Michelle Gumbel said in a statement.

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Welcome to the Shankleville Historical Society

Shankleville Community, Texas is a “freedmen’s community” founded by Jim and Winnie Shankle in Deep East Texas.

This Historical Society seeks to preserve the heritage, document the history and propagate the legacy of the Shankleveille Community.

Named for Jim and Winnie Shankle, known as the first Blacks in Newton County, Texas to buy land and become local leaders after gaining freedom by emancipation.