To introduce you to Dorothy Height,
the godmother of the civil rights movement.
Now she focused on issues
of African American women,
including unemployment,
illiteracy, and voter awareness.
Get this at the age of 25,
she joined the National Council
of ***** Women and later served
as its president for 40 years.
Incredible.
They really is.
She was a prominent figure in the
civil rights movement and was
regularly called on for advice.
Leaders like Eleanor Roosevelt,
Dwight D Eisenhower,
and Lyndon B Johnson often sought her.
Council in 1963,
Hype played a major role in the
planning and execution of the March
on Washington for jobs and freedom.
Although she was a major player in the March,
she was not invited to speak.
Originally, no women were
included in the program at all,
but her and Anna Arnold Hedgeman
persuaded the other organizers
to allow a woman to speak.
Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
Well, then, in 1989,
she received the Citizens Medal
award from President Ronald Reagan.
In 2004, Height was honored with
the Congressional Gold Medal.
The same year,
height was inducted into the
Democracy Hall of Fame International.
She also received an estimated
24 honorary degrees.
Now she passed away at
the ripe old age of 98,
and her funeral was held at
Washington National Cathedral.
What a life.
Yes, very well lived.
Shortly after her death in 2010,
the US Postal Service named
DC's former main office the
Dorothy I Height Post Office.
This honor made her the only
African American woman to have a
federal facility in Washington.
They see named after her.
Can I get a round of applause from this,
Dorothy? What a woman. What she saw,
what she accomplished in her 98 years.
I mean ohh I would have loved
to have sat down with her.
Yeah. And and and just all the
people all the ones she met.
The president's, the movement,
the I can't even imagine
what it took for her at 25.
And it sounds like even before
that to even have the gumption
the strength the bravery to say
I see things that I want change.
I see injustice and I'm going
to make it and
made it happen. Exactly. Yes.
OK, we're going on a sweet note because
yesterday's today and now we're going
into the weekend with ice cream.
I can feel it.
That's the black-owned business.
It's Everyday Sunday and everyone gets
a scoop and walks away with the smile.
Customers knows.
Notice owner Charles Foreman giving away
ice cream to those who couldn't pay.
Now he's a culinary institute grad.
He lost his his career in 2020,
so he redid everything,
rerouted into an ice cream shop.
So then he started giving away
cones to kids who couldn't pay.
And customers came up and said
they realized he was doing this,
gave him envelopes of money,
of donations. That's what
I'm talking about. Started
helping the cause.
He said that it's a neighborhood also in
DC that's kind of becoming gentrified.
He's lived there for 2020 years and
he said he's just knows the caring
of these this community and how
important these people are to him.
So he was, he wasn't surprised
that they all stepped
up. I love that. And listen,
it's kind of all about that.
You know, sometimes we're going about
our daily lives and we're so busy we're
not taking a minute to notice those.
Small acts of kindness which we're
going to talk about next week that
are happening right before our eyes.
So kudos to the people in those
community and that shop that said
he's doing something pretty special.
I want to be a part of this.
I love that. Thank you, Charles.
Yes, Charles. And by the way,
ohh yeah, I went to Jenny's,
had their little when my ice
cream for breakfast last.
Scoop you're there's mid morning
on a Saturday. What school?
I did peanut butter and chocolate.
Ohh yeah and then I bought 3 pints.
OK by the way I walked out
of there that was not cheap.
I was about $68 to be exact.
But you know what?
We've had ice cream for dessert
this whole week.
So yeah little something sweet.
And guys let's face it,
we know all this weekend we're gonna
be enjoying some calories so why not?
I was prepping my belly.
As you should. Alright Trent
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