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Hattie McDaniel (shown receiving her Academy Award from Fay Bainter)
Hattie McDaniel (shown receiving her Academy Award from Fay Bainter)

A page to spark motivation, find out who’s getting older, and learn more about our history.

EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

EUR BIRTHDAYS

Feb. 29: Rapper Ja Rule is 40 (or 10 in leap years – born 1976).

BLACK HISTORY

Feb. 29, 1940: On this day, Hattie McDaniel known for her supporting roles became the first African American to win the Oscar Award for her role as ‘Mammy’ in the movie “Gone With The Wind.” Not only was she the first African American to receive this award, but the was the only woman to have received it until Whoopi Goldberg received the same award for her role in the movie “Ghost.”

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