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In October we wear pink for Breast Cancer awareness! 🎀
According to American Cancer Society, Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States. It is about 30% of all new female cancers each year. Recently, incidence rates have increased by 0.5% per year. Breast cancer death rates have been steadily decreasing since 1989, for an overall decline of 43% through 2020. Ladies, check your bo***es!

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Today we are celebrating Indigenous People’s day! Indigenous people make up over 6.2% of the world’s population. We use this day to lift up the Native American community, and recognize the atrocities colonist commited against them.

Here are ways you can honor and support Indigenous People below!

• Acknowledge the land you’re on

• Share about Indigenous People’s Day

• Purchase from Indigenous businesses

• Visit a museum that shares Indigenous history and culture

• Donate to a cause

Help enact meaningful change and join the Zinn Education Project and their initiative to “Abolish Columbus Day.”

“Give light, and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker

Our woman of the week is Ella Baker, one of the most influential women & leaders in the civil rights movement! Driven by action, Baker was the co-founder of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) ✝️, headed by Martin Luther King Jr., and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SCLC’s focus is to educate youth and adults in the areas of personal responsibility, leadership potential, and community service; to ensure economic justice and civil rights and to eradicate racism wherever it exists. SNCC was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became the major channel of student participation in the civil rights movement Ella was born in Norfolk, Virginia and attended Shaw University where she graduated with valedictorian honors.

Did you know 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

• Ella Baker became the NAACP's highest-ranking woman in 1943 ✊🏾

• She believed that the strength of an organization grew from the bottom up, not the top down 🪜💪🏾

• Baker worked as editorial assistant at the Negro National News 🗞

Our woman of the week is the legendary Angela Davis. ✊🏿🖤 The Educator and activist was apart of the Black Panther Party. Davis was charged with aiding the botched escape attempt of imprisoned Black radical George Jackson, and served about 18 months in jail before her acquittal in 1972. These events led to the “Free Angela Davis” campaign and the Angela Davis Legal Defense Committee. She served as a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught courses on the history of consciousness. Her interests in prisoner rights led her to found Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. Davis is also the author of several books including Women, Race, and Class (1983) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).

Did you know… 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

• While a graduate student, Davis traveled extensively and lived in France & East Germany 🇫🇷🇩🇪
• John Lennon and Yoko Ono dedicated their 1972 song "Angela" to Davis. 🎵
• As a noted feminist, Davis criticized the 1995 Million Man March for its exclusion of women ♀