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What We Planted: The Seeds of Service for 9/11 Day 2026 Impact Report Planting the Lessons of 9/11 in a New Generation. At 8:46 a.m. on September 11, 2026, the hallways of Hempstead High School went quiet. The students sitting still in their classrooms weren't born when the towers fell. By the end of the day, they had heard the story from people who lived through it, and they later begun carrying it forward themselves. Twenty-five years after September 11, a new generation came together to...

March is Women's History Month - a time to reflect on the contributions, resilience, and leadership of women who have shaped our nation. Yet, too often, one group remains underrecognized in both history and current discourse: Black female veterans. They have served this country in every major conflict, in every branch of the military, often while navigating the dual burdens of racism and sexism. Their stories are not just about service—they are about endurance, leadership, and an unwavering...

Black History Month did not begin as a celebration of identity. It began as a corrective - an intervention into a national lie. When historian Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week in 1926 through the Association for the Study of African American Life and History , his purpose was explicit: Black people had been systematically erased from the American historical record, and that erasure carried psychological and political consequences. Woodson understood history as power. To deny a...