August Celebrations!
Monday August 2nd, gay African American novelist James Baldwin’s birthday (1924)
Tuesday the 3rd, Gray Panther Maggie Kuhn’s birthday (1905)
Friday the 13th, suffragist Lucy Stone’s birthday (1818)
Monday the 16th, Carol Mosely Braun’s birthday (1947)
Thursday the 26th, 84th Anniversary of women’s suffrage - so go vote already! And when you get discouraged in the struggle, remember it took 72 years of effort to achieve it.