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Today, we mark the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s assassination in Memphis, during his visit to support Black sanitation workers who were on strike.

The night before, King delivered his prophetic "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. ✊🏿

#RiseUpAsOne #DrKing #PowerOfProtest #Justice4All #MLK50

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Daniel "DannyBoy" Naha-Ve'evalu is a native of San Francisco, CA and a current local to Carson, CA.

After high school, DannyBoy went to College of San Mateo and City College of San Francisco before deciding that college wasn't for him. He entered the workforce and worked various manual labor jobs. While standing on a scaffold during a construction job, DannyBoy realized he didn't want to do that kind of work for the rest of his life. He made the decision to pursue higher education, but he knew it wouldn't be an easy journey. With the support of his family, DannyBoy packed up and moved to Atlanta, GA to attend to the Art Institute of Atlanta where he studied video production.

DannyBoy knew in order to succeed, he needed to take himself out of his comfort zone. After 2 years, DannyBoy applied to the University of Southern California (USC) and was admitted the Fall of 2009 into the School of Cinematic Arts and by 2013 he graduated with his Bachelor's Degree. While in college, he was a student organizer for a Pacific Islander initiative called Promoting Unity, Liberation and Education or PULE (pronounced pooh-leh) that he created while working with Asian Pacific American Student Services, a department of Student Affairs at USC. Since his graduation, DannyBoy has been working for Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) as the Program Coordinator for Pacific Islander Leaders Of Tomorrow, a culture-based and community-focused leadership development program designed to build the leadership within the Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) community.

DannyBoy is also an aspiring filmmaker with a social justice lens who desires to create content about the nuanced experiences of NHPIs in America. DannyBoy recently found a strong sense of solace in his identity as a Queer Pacific Islander-Sāmoan-American male, a battle he has struggled with for a lifetime. DannyBoy is devoted to the advancement and progression of NHPI's and all people of color!

-- All year, Sons And Brothers has honored the heroes and hundreds of individuals that have fought and continue to fight the injustices faced by our communities. We’re now acknowledging and celebrating the journeys of our Asian and Pacific Islander identified leaders and the ways in which they have made TODAY possible and are working to create a more just FUTURE. 🎨  by: Seongyun Park, check out more of their work here: songparkart.com #HealthAndJustice4All #PacificIslander #AAPI

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Sabiha Basrai is an unapologetically Muslim-American Culture Worker and activist from Oakland, California. Born and raised in Stanford, CA her parents came to the United States from Bombay, India in 1979. Her mother was a graphic designer and her father was a video producer, so she grew up in a household that was creatively rooted, while surround by a very international community in Stanford.  Although, she did not grow up with her immediate family close by, Basrai grew up with an extended network of other Indian-Americans living in the Diaspora who shared her cultural identity, religious identity, and similar immigration stores. Additionally, her family traveled home to Bombay frequently and she was able to build a relationship with her family despite the distance.

Basrai’s political education began. Growing up, Basrai’s parents encouraged her to be a critical thinker in terms of her identity as a Muslim-American and as a South Asian person living in the Bay Area. This act helped to encourage a call to be apart of political organizing and social justice work, which became to be important when Basrai entered college. Basari graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where she earned her degree in Graphic Design. When Basrai was in her second year at Cal Poly, the September 11th attack happened. In the aftermath of the attacks and the increase of islamophobic actions against Muslims in this country and abroad, Basrai began to cultivate her political voice at a time when the voices of Muslims were criminalized. (Full bio on our page - link in bio) -- All year, Sons And Brothers has honored the heroes and hundreds of individuals that have fought and continue to fight the injustices faced by our communities. We’re now acknowledging and celebrating the journeys of our Asian and Pacific Islander identified leaders and the ways in which they have made TODAY possible and are working to create a more just FUTURE. 🎨  by: Seongyun Park, check out more of their work here: @song__p  #HealthAndJustice4All #AAPI

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Shoutout to 14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You who recently became the youngest person to Graduate from Texas Christian University. Huey-You graduated with a major in Physics and a minor in Math and Chinese.http://bit.ly/2s0cg6U

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Today, we're wishing Grammy award-winning musician Robert Glasper a happy birthday. Your music is a source of joy and inspiration for us!

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Today on his birthday, we honor Amiri Baraka! His controversial literary work pushed America to be more conscious of what it would actually take to see true change.

We continue to fight for #HealthandJustice4all in his honor.

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QTPoC Mental Health just gave us a sweet reminder to look beyond the physical and tell people what we really love about them.

Tag a friends with a number number you'd like to share with them.

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In efforts to unerase our trans/gender nonconforming community members, Mic has created a database to track the known murders of trans and gender nonconforming folks in the U.S. The devastating fact of the fact of the matter is that since the beginning of 2017, there have been 8 known murders and they've all been people of color. Unfortunately, many folks are misgendered and are never counted as trans, so there could be more. We must #StayLoud and protect all of our trans and genderqueer folx.