{"id":293,"date":"2016-01-26T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/?p=293"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:03:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T04:03:27","slug":"black-history-month-what-are-your-moments-that-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socamom.com\/w\/black-history-month-what-are-your-moments-that-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: What Are Your Moments That Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Black History Month, AT&T has challenged all of us to investigate moments that matter in Black History.<\/strong> <\/strong>We all know, or should know, the big moments like Althea Gibson\u2019s Grand Slam title, Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech, the election of America\u2019s first African American President, Barack Obama, but what are the moments that led up to the historic victories, inventions, and accomplishments in Black History? How does your family history figure into the larger picture that is Black History in America?\u00a0 As a Caribbean American, I am proud of the accomplishments of Black Americans as well as the contributions to Black History that people of Caribbean descent have made to technology, culture, politics, art, and the law.<\/p>\n

The year my dad was born on the small Caribbean Island of Tobago, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt\u2019s Executive Order 8802 desegregated war production plants and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee in the United States. <\/strong> My dad arrived in the United States in 1965, the year Malcolm X was assassinated.\u00a0 He was in his third year at Howard University when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Washington, and DC was engulfed in fiery riots.\u00a0 He graduated from Howard University School of Law in May of 1974, and later that year, he began working on writing policy for the newly enacted Employee Retirement Act of 1974 (ERISA).\u00a0Shortly after that, I was born.<\/p>\n

About the Program:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Now in its eighth year, AT&T 28 Days is a project close to all of our hearts at AT&T. We’re proud to put a special focus on celebrating how African-Americans have impacted our culture and highlighting those we believe will have an impact in the future. Our century-long history of innovation is a story about people from all walks of life and all kinds of backgrounds coming together to improve the human condition. When you look through our Moments that Matter visual album, you will see many images that speak directly to that heritage of diversity at AT&T. But celebrating our history is just part of what 28 Days is about. We also want to shed light on the people, tools and resources within the African-American community supporting constructive change across the globe. To that end, we asked modern-day, black pioneers to share how they navigate through a world moving at the pace of technology and innovation.” ~ Jennifer L. Jones, Vice President of Diverse Markets at AT&T Mobility<\/strong> (Read more at http:\/\/28days.att.com\/about<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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