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Dash: *reaches for egg roll*

Violet: “Did you wash your hands?”

Dash: *Speed Forces to the bathroom and back* *reaches for egg roll*

Violet: “With…soap?”

Violet is all of our mothers.

She is also all of our sisters when they reach that special part of their lives, you know when their body goes through changes while she experiences an evolution in her telekinetic force field projection. We know it all too well.

Violet interrupts Dash’s complaints about dinner being vegan to address their mom securing the bag by reviving her career as a solo superhero. She was chosen over Mr. Incredible and Frozone by their mysterious new employer to rebrand supers after the events of the first film.

Sidenote: Why were Bob & Helen rocking the retro-fits when they were meeting with the superhero temp agency? Maybe to hide the fact that they’re married? We’ll see.

Elastigirl got tagged in, and Mr. Incredible’s in charge of the kids, which includes teaching Dash new math, keeping Jack Jack from summoning the Infinity Gauntlet, and dealing with a fed up Violet who clearly doesn’t want to super anymore. Girl put her super suit IN the garbage disposal, then yeeted it across the room when she realized that Edna Mode thread count was too strong.

It’ll be fine, tho. She’s all up in the action montage with the Incredibles horn section blaring in the background, so once she puts some pages in her diary she’ll be ready to put some force in the field. Did you see her split one of her fields and throw them? Violet’s definitely getting her stats up this year.

It’s all fun and games until the new villain comes through. He’s dressed like a Borderlands character and looks like his MO is hypnotizing folks Mad Mod style (good thing Beast Boy ain’t around). These new looks at Incredibles 2 are just getting the 90s kids even more hyped for this movie. Once again, if you were born after 97, you should wait your turn or you might catch the fade on opening night. Just saying.

Incredibles 2 hits theaters June 15th.

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April 4th is a day that will forever be in the hearts of African Americans who sought to fight a system of inequality and oppression. It was the day that famed civil rights leader and activist, Martin Luther King Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.

King traveled to Memphis to support the sanitation workers in their protest against unequal wages and poor working conditions. During this time, black workers were paid significantly lower wages than whites and lost their lives performing duties that were far from safe. King spoke out against these injustices so that blacks could be respected and valued in the workplace, community, and governmental systems.

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That mission continues. 50 years after the death of Dr. King, a vibrant and driven group of millennials are running for political office and serve as activists in Memphis, keeping Dr. King’s legacy alive. And they’re all coming to the table with bold ideas and big accomplishments —which may be a huge surprise when you learn that they are all under 40.

Tami Sawyer, a social justice activist and influencer, made national news when she led the Memphis’ #TakeEmDown901 movement to remove a Confederate statue that ignited a march against racism. As a powerful voice and immovable force in the Memphis school system, Sawyer wants to work in solidarity with other leaders to change the city’s landscape as a Shelby County Commissioner for District 7.

Jamal Whitlow may not be old enough to run for president of the United States but he’s making his mark on every door he can open in Memphis. This 32-year-old is running for the Shelby County Clerk’s office and is bringing a ton of leadership experience with him.

“Leadership has no boundaries and my generation has to step up and be dangerously unselfish. It’s time to dismiss the traditional political rhetoric and get millennials back to believing in their ability to lead and serve.”  —Jamal Whitlow

Jamal Whitlow (Facebook)

As one of the youngest members to serve on the Beale Street Tourism Development Board, Whitlow has been at the table making decisions that will make Memphis a stronger city for future generations.

Leading the way as a historymaker by adding his name to the ballot as a candidate for mayor of Shelby County and the first African American lawmaker to hold a leadership position in the Tennessee State Senate, Lee Harris was elected the youngest state senator in Tennessee in 2014 and went on to become the first African American to become a tenured, full law professor at the University of Memphis Law School.

Lee Harris (Facebook)

Today’s young leaders in Memphis know how important it is to mobilize other young people in order to make real progress. Every voice matters. That’s why Danielle Inez, a government consultant and founder of Millennials For Memphis, accepted the charge as president of the Shelby County Young Democrats. She’s connecting people to advance the long-term vision of Memphis, recruiting over 2,000 people to stand up and be heard in the policy-shifting discussions that govern the leadership agenda in Memphis.

Danielle Inez (901yd.org)

The list doesn’t stop here. There are over a dozen millennials who are transitioning to politics in order to give birth to a new story for African Americans in Memphis. Fifty years after Dr. King’s death, these millennials are using what Dr. King preached in order to lead the political agenda. It’s the union of civically engaged and socially responsible leadership that enables any group to rise to new heights. And these millennials are ready to show the world how far they are going to go… together.

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Thousands of African American men, women, and children were lynched decades before and after the Civil War, and their stories have gone largely untold. This Sunday, on 60 Minutes, Oprah Winfrey takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes look inside The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, in Montgomery, Alabama, which is dedicated to their memories.

Winfrey walks through the memorial with lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who led the efforts to build the memorial. Asked by Winfrey why he chose to commemorate lynching as opposed to other injustices done by white people to the black community, Stevenson says the murderous acts were a way for whites to maintain political control over African Americans, who were supposed to get the right to vote after the Civil War.

“Lynching was especially effective because it would allow the whole community to know that we did this to this person…a message that if you try to vote, if you try to advocate for your rights… anything that complicates white supremacy…and political power, we will kill you,” Stevenson said.

The memorial, which takes up six acres in the heart of the best-known city in the struggle for civil rights, has 805 steel markers that bear the names of the people murdered—often with thousands of onlookers amid a picnic-like atmosphere. Each marker represents a state county and contains the names of victims of documented lynching from the area. There were 361 documented lynchings in Alabama alone.

Of the more than 4,300 cases of lynching documented by Stevenson and his team, the story of Jesse Washington particularly stands out. Sia Sanneh, one of Stevenson’s team member, tells Winfrey about a newspaper article she unearthed of Washington’s murder describing a crowd of 15,000 people, many “dressed in their Sunday best.” It detailed how Washington’s clothing was soaked in oil before he was tied to a tree and then lowered into a fire set beneath him.

“I think it’s incredibly telling that death was not enough… People would be killed and then shot and then set on fire,” she says. “There are some cases where the body was dragged to the heart of the black community.”

In addition to the monuments displaying the names of the victims, the team has also collected jars filled with soil from many different places where lynching took place. Cameras rolled on as descendants of Wes Johnson, a lynching victim collected soil samples from an Alabama cotton field.

Johnson, an 18-year old at the time, was accused of assaulting a white woman. A mob took Johnson from his cell before his trial, shot him and then hung him from a tree.

“Something happened here that was wrong, unjust, and too few people have talked about it,” he says. “So that’s what we want to do today. We want to recognize the wrong that was done to Wes Johnson,” Stevenson told Winfrey.

Winfrey’s report will air on 60 Minutes on Sunday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m., ET/PT on CBS. Watch a preview clip below.

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Today is Siblings Day, so it's time for approximately 80% of you to take a minute out to thank (or blame) your brother(s) and/or sister(s) for helping to make you the person you are today. What would Mario have been without Luigi? Or Luke without Leia? Whether you're more like the Weasleys, the Starks, the Winchesters, or the Simpsons, here's to having a built-in lifelong partner in crime.