#luther: 501

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Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate was born on January 15, 1929.

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Ad Astra News - 8/27 - 9/2

State of the Archive Growth remains steady and the September Review Hunt is underway!  First prize being a full-color portrait of a character of your choosing, second prize being a black and white portrait of the same, or you can bank wins for a bigger piece of art!  Or you can toss me a wishlist, too.  Any which way, don't be shy about signing up; it costs nothing and you only have to read and review to participate!  In the meantime--

Weekly Challenge #19: Empathy Be it an actual psionic ability, or just the ability to feel as others do, go ahead and write between 100 and 700 words on empathy! Interpret as liberally or strictly as you like. When you post it to the archive, tag it with Weekly Challenge: Empathy.

Challenge ends September 8th at 11:59PM, Eastern.

Stories Archived ★ denotes Weekly Challenge Entry

Star Trek: Discovery

by lah_mrh Human Touch - G - Ash Tyler| Voq/Christopher Pike Those Left Behind - G - Ash Tyler| Voq & Christopher Pike Ends and Means - G - Christopher Pike, Spock Fragments - G - Ash Tyler| Voq & Christopher Pike

Star Trek: The Original Series

by TheQuietWings Aftermath of a Strange Encounter - G - Hikaru Sulu, Janice Rand, Nyota Uhura

Star Trek: Alternate Original Series

by lah_mrh All in a Day's Work - G - James T. Kirk (AOS)/Spock (AOS) Love and Marriage - G - James T. Kirk (AOS), Sam Kirk (AOS), Winona Kirk (AOS)

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

by nostalgia 501 For Beginners - M - Ezri Dax/Julian Bashir How To Fall Further - M - Julian Bashir/Luther Sloan Pollen - M - Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien/Miles O'Brien Some Other Life - G - Julian Bashir/Miles O'Brien The Matter At Hand - M - Elim Garak/Julian Bashir

Star Trek: Voyager

by nostalgia Starless - M - Kathryn Janeway/Chakotay

Expanded Universes

by Hawku Flortarios III - G - Ensemble by LordMcCoveyCove [PODFIC] Communiques - G - Original Characters Damn the Torpedoes! - M - Ensemble Trial of Transfer - T - Ensemble Damn the Torpedoes! Part Two - M - Ensemble Damn the Torpedoes! Part Three - M - Ensemble Milk Run - M - Ensemble by Omicrex46 Star Trek: Fortitude (Season 2) - G - Ensemble Star Trek: Fortitude (Season 3) - G - Ensemble by SevereAnnoyance, squireofgeekdom Where Angels Fear To Tread - T - Plo Koone, Commander Wolffe, Original Characters, xover with Star Wars

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Events 4.3

686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. 1559 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. 1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. 1888 – Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. 1920 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. 1948 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. 1948 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins known as the Jeju uprising. 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. 1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day. 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins. 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. 1980 – US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.[16] 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. 1989 – The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield. 1993 – The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. 1996 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody. 2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide. 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. 2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring 3 people before committing suicide.

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The History of Fraternities and Sororities in US Colleges

The modern concept of fraternities as we know it today, with Greek letters and rituals, began to take shape in the early 19th century. The first social fraternity, Kappa Alpha Society, was founded in 1825 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. This was followed by the establishment of other fraternities, including Sigma Phi (1827), Delta Phi (1827), and Psi Upsilon (1833). Oldest Black Sorority: Alpha Kappa Alpha is also a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), an umbrella organization for historically Black Greek-letter organizations. Today, there are over 9 million students participating in fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada, with hundreds of different organizations represented on college campuses. Alpha Phi Alpha has a rich history and has played a significant role in the African American community, with notable members including Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and W.E.B. Du Bois, among many others. Today, Alpha Phi Alpha has over 700 chapters worldwide and continues to be a leading organization in the African American community, promoting scholarship, leadership, and service. Oldest Latina Fraternity:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The oldest Latina fraternity is Lambda Theta Phi (ΛΘΦ), founded on December 1, 1975, at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. It was established by 13 Latinx students who sought to create an organization that would promote brotherhood, scholarship, and community service, as well as celebrate and empower Latinx culture and heritage. Oldest Multi-culture Sorority:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     A multicultural membership that has grown beyond its original Hispanic-Latino origins Sigma Lambda Beta has also developed two 501(c)(3) nonprofits, the Sigma Lambda Beta Education Foundation and the Omega Fund ¹.The largest multicultural sorority is Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (ΣΓΡ), founded on November 12, 1922, at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was established by seven African American women who sought to create an organization that would promote sisterhood, academic excellence, and community service, without regard to race, creed, or color. Sigma Gamma Rho has over 500 chapters worldwide, with members from diverse backgrounds, including African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic, Native American, and other ethnicities. The sorority is a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the Multicultural Greek Council (MGC).

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The BIRTHPLACE of MARTIN LUTHER KING JR (1929-1968).

January 15th 1929

American Civil Rights leader,and Baptist Minister.A leading figure in the civil rights movement,for balck people in America,especially during the 1950's and 60's.

Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

LIVED HERE: Birthplace.Childhood.1929 to 1941

501 Auburn Avenue,Altanta,Georgia 30312,USA

Public Museum/PRIVATE Residence/Private Commercial

Heritage Protected: YES/NO National Historic Register (USA)

Birth Home - Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

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Promoting Wellness

At The Dalton by Alta, promoting wellness through fitness and exercise is a top priority. Residents of the two and one bedroom apartments for rent in Dalton can enjoy convenient access to an all-hours fitness center equipped with free weights and cardio machines. The tranquil yoga room offers a serene space for yoga enthusiasts to practice mindfulness and flexibility. Regular physical activity is essential for maintaining overall health and well-being, helping to reduce stress, improve cardiovascular health, and boost mood. By providing state-of-the-art fitness facilities, The Dalton by Alta encourages residents to lead active lifestyles and achieve their fitness goals conveniently within their community. Embrace a healthier lifestyle and enjoy the benefits of fitness at The Dalton by Alta.

The Economy of Dalton, Georgia

The economy of Dalton, Georgia, is strong and diverse, supported by a mix of industries, which helps keep the town thriving and provides opportunities for its residents. The town is known as the "Carpet Capital of the World" because many carpet and flooring companies are based there. These companies provide lots of jobs for local residents. Besides the carpet industry, Dalton has a growing manufacturing sector and many small businesses. The town's economy also benefits from agriculture, with local farms producing crops and livestock. Dalton has a lower cost of living compared to many other places, making it affordable for families and individuals.

Chief Vann House Historic Site in Dalton, GA

The Chief Vann House Historic Site is a special place in Dalton, Georgia. It is the home of Chief James Vann, a Cherokee leader, built in 1804. The house is big and beautiful, showing how wealthy and important Vann was. You can tour the house and see original furniture, decorations, and tools from the early 1800s. There are also guided tours where you can learn about the history of the Cherokee people and their lives before they were forced to move west on the Trail of Tears. The site includes lovely gardens and a visitor center with more information and exhibits. It's a great place to learn about Cherokee history and see a well-preserved historic home.

AdventHealth Medical Group Opens Cardiology Office Location in Dalton

Healthcare, like cardiology, is very important in communities because it helps people stay healthy and live longer lives. Cardiology focuses on the heart and blood vessels, which are crucial for our bodies to work properly. Doctors in cardiology help prevent and treat problems like heart disease and high blood pressure. By having good cardiology care in a community, people can get regular check-ups and tests to catch problems early. This means they can get treatment sooner, which often leads to better outcomes and healthier lives. Access to cardiology also helps communities grow stronger because healthy people can work, go to school, and enjoy life without being held back by health issues.

Link to map

Chief Vann House Historic Site 82 GA-225, Chatsworth, GA 30705, United States Head north on GA-225 N 1.4 mi Turn left onto US-76 W 5.2 mi Continue straight onto GA-52 W/E Walnut Ave 0.5 mi Turn right onto Martin Luther King Jr Blvd 3.0 mi Continue onto W Waugh St Pass by Krystal (on the left) 0.4 mi Turn left 161 ft Turn left Destination will be on the right 16 ft The Dalton by Alta 501 W Waugh St, Dalton, GA 30720, United States

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The owner of Phoenix Mystery Castle wants to demolish it

Located in the foothills of South Mountain Park, it was built in the 1930s by Boyce Luther Gulley who, like a whole lot of other people, moved to Phoenix about 100 years ago to recover from tuberculosis. Once he had, he set about building a castle for his young daughter, Mary Lou. 

Gulley built the sprawling 18-room residence from stone, adobe, and a huge pile of found objects. Its façade is studded with pieces of old automobiles and telephone poles that jut from below its roofline. There’s a fence made from rail tracks salvaged from a shuttered coal mine. The castle has its own chapel and, like any good castle, a dungeon. All these years later, it’s a work in progress: Plumbing and electricity were added in the early 1990s, and some of the castle’s rooms remain unfinished.

In spite of that, Mary Lou and her mother moved into the castle after Boyce Gulley died in 1945. The women began offering tours. A LIFE Magazine article of the time referred to the building as a “fairy tale dream house.”

But no dream house is safe in Maricopa County, where prestigious and interesting buildings are routinely targeted for destruction. This time, the call is coming from inside the castle: In November 2023, a full demolition permit was requested by Rita Spears, the president of the Mystery Castle Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that has maintained the castle since Mary Lou’s death in 2010. The permit was reportedly denied for one year by the Phoenix Historic Preservation Office. Which means Mystery Castle could be demolished as early as this coming November — unless someone does something to stop it.

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‘We had to own the land’: How the Forest Theater became a neighborhood revitalization project

For the first time in its history, the Forest Theater on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is owned by a Black-led entity.

“Historically, it has been owned by a Jewish family,” says Elizabeth Wattley, president and CEO of Forest Forward, the nonprofit that stewards the theater. “But now, it’s entirely owned by our organization.”

The historic theater was constructed by the Hoblitzelles in 1949, when South Dallas was a primarily Jewish neighborhood, and MLK Boulevard was Forest Avenue.

As Black families moved into South Dallas in the 1940s and ’50s and white families moved out, the theater, which opened as a whites-only venue in 1949, began catering to Black-only audiences by 1956.

Wattley began working on the Forest Theater revitalization when she was the director of strategic initiatives at CitySquare, which purchased the theater in 2017.

In 2020, Wattley decided to branch off and filed a 501(c)3 for Forest Forward.

What originally started as an effort to revive the theater has expanded in scope, with Forest Forward acquiring several surrounding parcels of land between Julius Schepps Freeway and SM Wright Freeway.

Forest Forward now owns the theater, the former liquor store just north of the theater, the gas station next door to the liquor store, and the lots behind the theater where an infamous gambling house once stood.

All of the additional acquisitions prompt the question: How did Forest Forward go from reopening a historic theater to what it is calling a “neighborhood revitalization effort”?

“Quite frankly, a lot of people know land is king,” Wattley says. “And for this to be a true neighborhood revitalization effort, we needed to be able to build, and we had to own the land.”

A $75.215 million capital campaign for a theater (and much more)

The initial purchases were the most difficult, Wattley says, because it felt as if they were fundraising on a dream.

“I just kept saying, ‘I promise this is going to happen,’ ” she recalls. “But we also couldn’t be too vocal about our fundraising effort because that would just continue to make prices rise.”

Wattley announced Forest Forward’s $75.215 million capital campaign in 2021, a nod to the South Dallas neighborhood’s zip code and an amount that makes it one of the community’s most expensive real estate projects.

Over time, Forest Forward has acquired much of the triangle of land between the theater and Pennsylvania Avenue.

One proposed use for this land is residential housing.

“It’s currently zoned for parking, so if we move forward with housing, we have the opportunity to work with the community for what type of housing,” Wattley explains.

She says that the housing project currently is in a conceptual phase, but they have floated the idea of townhomes or multifamily units.

They are able to fit 150 units if they decide to move forward.

Zoning laws in the City of Dallas require entertainment spaces to have parking lots — about 350 parking spaces in the theater’s case.

So where will the parking go if Forest Forward builds housing on the land currently zoned for it?

Under the highway, adjacent to the theater.

To achieve this, Wattley has been working with Mike Morris, the director of transportation at the North Central Texas Council of Governments.

“There has been a lot of accomplishment in this work, but did I ever think that we would be able to pull off parking under the highway and have it funded?” Wattley asks. “That one is still a really big deal for me.”

Land ownership and developers in South Dallas are ‘like Game of Thrones’

Based on information from the Dallas Central Appraisal District, Forest Forward now owns 22 South Dallas properties.

The land value of the properties is $1,596,840.

While Wattley is proud of big wins in acquiring the liquor store and the gambling house, she emphasizes there is still work to be done and negotiations to be made, especially in the triangle of land between the theater and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Arts Academy.

She points to a color-coded map showing the “target geography” of their neighborhood revitalization efforts.

Two-and-a-half parcels on her map are a different shade.

“This one’s actually a fascinating story,” Wattley says, referring to the half parcel at 1808 Peabody. “It’s owned by a prominent Black family in the City of Dallas.

“The reason it’s a little triangle is because it was taken in eminent domain years ago to build the highway.

So they still own that little triangle.

It’s an undeveloped bubble, but we’re working with them to see if we can acquire it to have all the lots.”

One parcel in the triangle at 1812 Peabody is in the Urban Land Bank, but Wattley affirmed that Forest Forward expects the City to work with them on acquiring it.

South Dallas Councilman Adam Bazaldua didn’t answer our questions about that parcel.

He said in a statement that he is “currently in discussion with Forest Forward for a piece of Harwood street to be abandoned and used as a pedestrian amenity and serve as a connection between Forest Forward and the Martin Luther King Jr. Academy.”

After that, just one parcel remains, Wattley says.

It was purchased for $80,000 from someone who knew all about the Forest Forward project, Wattley says.

When they tried to buy it from him, “this guy held us for $350,000,” more than four times what he paid for it, she says.

Because of situations like this, Wattley says she and her team learned to move quietly as they purchase land for the project.

“Land ownership and developers in South Dallas right now are… it’s just insane,” Wattley says. “It’s like Game of Thrones.”

Goodbye, gambling house and liquor store

Purchasing the liquor store across the street was tough, Wattley says.

It was open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and was incredibly profitable.

“When we introduced ourselves, the owners actually wanted us to keep the liquor store and be the new tenants,” Wattley says. “They were like, ‘Why wouldn’t you want this business that already cash flows so much monthly?’ ”

Forest Forward began by purchasing the land next door to it, which previously was a gas station.

“That needs some environmental work because there’s a gas tank underground that’s leaking,” Wattley says. “So we’re working with the City to get that pulled out.”

In order to acquire the liquor store, the Forest Forward team implemented an aggressive fundraising campaign.

“There are people that really care about this work,” Wattley says, “and they helped us make the acquisition.”

Another big win for the Forest Forward team was acquiring the gambling house located behind the theater.

“Oh, everybody knows this gambling house,” Wattley says. “That gambling house had been in the community for over 30 years, and it was connected to the City of Dallas leadership. So, it was famous.”

Raising funds for the gambling house took more “savvy financing,” Wattley says, adding that they did it through “mixed sources,” including some financing structures through the LiftFund.

As soon as Forest Forward acquired the gambling house, they knocked it down.

Aside from the environmental work for the liquor store and the gas station, a significant amount of remediation work must be done on the theater.

“That building is just filled with asbestos, and we are doing a full abatement across the entire place,” Wattley says.

Forest Forward also is working with the City to update infrastructure in the neighborhood.

Wattley points out the intersection where South Harwood Street and Peabody Avenue meet: “Our pipes are 100 years old, clay and 6 inches around. So we cannot redevelop this building without [the pipes] being replaced.”

Wattley says the theater structure needs $3.8 million of investment in infrastructure just to make it operational.

We asked Bazaldua about any City dollars invested or committed to the theater.

He didn’t specify but says he is “committed and look[s] forward to continuing work with Forest Forward and DISD to make this project as successful as it possibly can.”

Forest Forward’s zoning requests to renovate and redevelop the theater, build the underground parking, and temporarily use land north of the theater for construction parking, will be heard by the City Plan Commission on Thursday, mere hours before Forward Forward’s groundbreaking celebration. If approved, the plans would move forward to City Council for final approval.

Can longtime South Dallas residents stick around to enjoy the Forest Theater?

Over the past several years, as Wattley has given tours of the theater to curious South Dallas neighbors, she pleaded with them: “Hold on to your land.”

This is one of the Dallas neighborhoods that the federal government labeled “definitely declining” in 1937, based on its Black population.

The label stuck to property valuations until recent years when, suddenly, property developers and investors began seeing dollar signs in a devalued market adjacent to Downtown.

The sudden and rapid property value increases are making it hard for many longtime South Dallas residents to afford their property taxes and stay in their homes.

Wattley says she wishes they just had a little more time.

“It’s not that new development isn’t wanted; it’s that new development needs to be built within the light of the community,” she says.

Wattley says she has learned the true impact of highway construction through this work.

South Central Expressway wasn’t there when the theater opened in 1949.

The highway was constructed in 1955, with eminent domain clearing a path for the highway to cut through the neighborhood.

This 1955 photo looks south on construction of Central Expressway right up against the historic Forest Theater. Image courtesy of University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections.

Before the highway, “if you’re a person of color, you have to sit in the balcony,” Wattley says. “So they really weren’t catering to you; they really didn’t care if you came to it or not. But by 1956, the only way the theater could survive was to cater to the Black community that was there.

“What that tells me is how quickly a neighborhood could flip. That shows you how fast this mass exodus happens.”

Wattley believes it could flip again, just as quickly, which is why she has advised South Dallas neighbors not to sell their properties yet in the face of gentrification.

“If people are going to sell their property, or whatever the case may be, that is their personal business,” Wattley says. “But it is understanding what’s ahead. And if you can hold on, then it could prevent some of the mass slip.

“Then, the neighborhood could revitalize and serve the residents that are here. That was my goal.”

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February 2024 Wrap-Up

Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics. – Alexander Nanitchkov

February’s Artist Shout-Outs

Alana Fletcher

amorecstasy

Julia Ro

Lucas Onzeki

Indeepencil

Manuel Javier Noreña Castaño

Nyrel Aoki

Simon Auchterlonie

Martin McHugh

Roxanne Henderson-Payne

Hana Augustine

Ander Lizarraga

February’s Streams and Videos

Let’s Discuss Some $#!7 — Behind the Scenes

Banned Books Edition: Let’s Read Some $#!7 by Kurt Vonnegut & Angie Thomas

Let’s Do… Something

Let’s Play Some $#!7! — Hades

Black History Month Quotes of 2024

QUOTE 1: Marian Anderson

QUOTE 2: Ta-nehisi Coates

QUOTE 3: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

QUOTE 4: Martin Luther King Jr.

QUOTE 5: Mikki Kendall

QUOTE 6: Victor Luckerson

QUOTE 7: Clint Smith

QUOTE 8: Farah Jasmine Griffin

QUOTE 9: N.K. Aning

QUOTE 10: Daven McQueen

QUOTE 11: Brittany K. Barnett

QUOTE 12: James Baldwin

QUOTE 13: D.L. Hughley

QUOTE 14: Saidiya Hartman

QUOTE 15: Abhijit Naskar

Check out the Yocum African American History Association (YAAHA), “a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to sharing educational resources about black American history”.

February’s Neverending Reading List Shares

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXIV — The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXV — The Rules of Magic

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVI — Practical Magic

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVII — Save Your Breath

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVIII — The First Girl Child

The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXIX — Aftershocks

The Neverending Reading List: Book XL — Circle K Cycles

The Neverending Reading List: Book XLI — Patriarchy Blues

The Neverending Reading List: Book XLII — Herlot of Alonia

Poems Written

“School Prepares You”

College

“Look At Me!”

“Get A Job!”

Bibliophile

Betrayal

So?

Accusations

February’s Video Game Quotes

QUOTE 1: Silent Hill: Downpour

QUOTE 2: Okami

QUOTE 3: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

QUOTE 4: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

QUOTE 5: To The Moon

QUOTE 6: Final Fantasy X

QUOTE 7: God of War III

QUOTE 8: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

QUOTE 9: Pokémon Black and White

QUOTE 10: DOTA 2

QUOTE 11: Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom

February’s Literacy Quotes

QUOTE 1: Clifford Stoll

QUOTE 2: Adiela Akoo

QUOTE 3: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

QUOTE 4: Luisa Capetillo

QUOTE 5: Willy Thorn

QUOTE 6: C. S. Young

QUOTE 7: Carol Anderson

QUOTE 8: Lailah Gifty Akita

QUOTE 9: Tom Zoellner

QUOTE 10: Mem Fox

QUOTE 11: Peter van der Walt

February’s Stupidity Quotes

QUOTE 7: Kurian Mathew Tharakan

QUOTE 8: Craig D. Lounsbrough

QUOTE 9: Apuleius

QUOTE 10: Torron-Lee Dewar

QUOTE 11: Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

QUOTE 12: Izumi Suzuki

Kickstarter Items Received

Kickstarter Item Arrived: Cute Creatures Compendium by Catilus!

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Events 5.19 (after 1930)

1933 – Finnish cavalry general C. G. E. Mannerheim is appointed the field marshal. 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. 1942 – World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor for repairs. 1943 – Winston Churchill's second wartime address to the U.S. Congress. 1945 – Syrian demonstrators in Damascus are fired upon by French troops injuring twelve, leading to the Levant Crisis. 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce. 1959 – The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. 1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). 1961 – At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement. 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail. 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. 1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. 1991 – Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. 1993 – SAM Colombia Flight 501 crashes on approach to José María Córdova International Airport in Medellín, Colombia, killing 132. 1996 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77. 1997 – The Sierra Gorda biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts. 2000 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station. 2007 – President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension. 2010 – The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders. 2012 – Three gas cylinder bombs explode in front of a vocational school in the Italian city of Brindisi, killing one person and injuring five others. 2012 – A car bomb explodes near a military complex in the Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor, killing nine people. 2015 – The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast. 2016 – EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea while traveling from Paris to Cairo, killing all on board. 2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.

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No, Martin, it’s for his step-grandma to grab it 

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Martin Luther King, Jr. , American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. April 4, 1968) was born on January 15, 1929.