Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could become the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Our favorite Jeopardy! icon Amy Schneider announced her engagement on Twitter. Non-binary actor Carl Clemons-Hopkins stuns the SAG red carpet. On the last day of Black History month we salute Bayard Rustin.

00:00 – Welcome & Intro

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00:59 – Intro Music

01:40 – Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could become the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme

02:18 – Our favorite Jeopardy! icon Amy Schneider announced her engagement on Twitter.

03:02 – Non-binary actor Carl Clemons-Hopkins stuns the SAG red carpet

03:46 – We salute Bayard Rustin during our Black History month spotlight

06:51 – Anna’s Got A Word

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Huffington Post

Carl 👏 Clemons 👏 Hopkins 👏 #SAGAwards https://t.co/FDiPaSjlFo pic.twitter.com/JZatwB1ARH

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) February 28, 2022

Amy Schneider is engaged!

I have an announcement: Genevieve is no longer my girlfriend… she’s my fiancée!!! I couldn’t be happier or more proud to spend my life with the very best person in the entire world 🥰🥰🥰 pic.twitter.com/ftd53zxnzF

— Amy Schneider (@Jeopardamy) February 24, 2022

Bayard Rustin – Inductee

https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/bayard-rustin

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Family, this is your favorite queer radio personality Anna DeShawn here with our queer news from today. 

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson could become the first Black woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Our favorite Jeopardy! icon Amy Schneider announced her engagement on Twitter. Non-binary actor Carl Clemons-Hopkins stuns the SAG red carpet. On the last day of Black History month we salute Bayard Rustin. 

Our leading story today is absolutely the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court. If or rather when she is approved it will mark a historic moment as she would be the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. Not to mention she is the first public defender to ever be nominated for this role. Judge Ketanji has broken many glass ceilings throughout her career and even clerked for retiring Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer. What an amazing full circle moment this will be for her & her family. Here’s to President Biden living out a campaign promise. 

Now for more wonderful news on a Monday morning our favorite Jeopardy! star Amy Schnieder is engaged. Yes! Amy & her longtime girlfriend Genevieve are getting married. Amy posted a pic on Twitter of their hands with rings on them and said, “I have an announcement: Genevieve is no longer my girlfriend… she’s my fiancée!!! I couldn’t be happier or more proud to spend my life with the very best person in the entire world 🥰🥰🥰” I’m so happy for Amy because she’s been so authentic and transparent throughout her entire run on Jeopardy! I can’t wait to see what she does during the Tournament of Champions coming this fall. 

Did you all tune-in to the SAG awards last night? Okay I didn’t either but when I miss things like this I always go and look at the pics, top winners, etc. Well Carl Clemons-Hopkins was just stunning in their tired black dress with a white boutonniere. Now I became familiar with Carl when they were received a  Primetime Emmy nod for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, for their role in Hacks, marking it the first time an out nonbinary actor has been nominated in the awards ceremony’s 73-year history. Want to see Carl’s fit? Check the episode page on our site. The link is in the show notes. 

Today is the last day of Black History Month and I must say that I’ve truly enjoyed sharing some icons I admire who lived at the intersections of being Black+Queer. There are so many Black LGBTQ folks who have made history but their sexuality was left out of the story. I’m here to change that. E3 Radio is here to change that. Who they are is just as important as what they did and acknowledging the full depth and breath of someone’s existence can not be understated. We deserve to be seen for all of who we are. Anything less is unjust. So with that our last spotlight goes to Bayard Rustin.

As reported by The Legacy Project, Bayard was an activist and strategist for the Civil Rights Movement. On the forefront of A. Philip Randolph’s efforts to end segregation in the Armed Forces, Bayard Rustin was instrumental in obtaining President Truman’s July 1948 order to integrate the U.S. military. In 1949 Rustin spent almost a month on a chain-gang in North Carolina as punishment for protesting segregated seating on buses. As a leading proponent of non-violence in the face of racial injustice, Rustin used his influence to strengthen Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s position in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, eventually becoming one of King’s chief political advisors, strategists and speechwriters. Through much of Bayard’s career his openness about being gay was an issue. Despite widespread pressure from other civil rights activists to fire him, Randolph and King remained steadfast in their support – though the threat of scandal often forced periods of estrangement. Indeed Rustin and King parted ways for three years before Randolph orchestrated Rustin’s pivotal role as architect of the watershed March on Washington, where Dr. King delivered his seminal “I Have A Dream” speech. In August of 1963, conservative Senator (and unabashed segregationist) Strom Thurmond of South Carolina took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to discredit the March by accusing Rustin of being a Communist, a draft-dodger and a homosexual. But such declarations did not sway Rustin from the path he had chosen for his life, and could not diminish his impact on King or on the movement he had quietly, but profoundly, influenced for decades. Rustin mentored King to make Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of non-violent “Civil Disobedience” the strategic centerpiece of King’s activism and the hallmark of his legacy. Though Bayard Rustin is often forgotten by many contemporary activists, few people had a more powerful influence on the Civil Rights Movement and its enduring impact on the course of American History. Bayard Rustin, we see you & we salute you. 

Now family, let’s close out Black History Month with a quote from Bayard Rustin himself which rings so true to me at this moment. He said, “If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is. Bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.” My word. As we live in a time where Russia is invading Ukraine for no reason, let us not remove ourselves from the bigotry all around us. We are all connected and if that type of bigotry and hate goes unchecked it will come staring right back at us. Whew. Till tomorrow, family. Peace.

Sources

Biden nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman on Supreme Court

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-nominates-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-black-woman/story?id=83062953

National Black Justice Coalition On The Nomination Of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson For The U.S. Supreme Court

https://nbjc.org/nbjc-on-the-nomination-of-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-the-u-s-supreme-court/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-nbjconthemove&utm_content=later-24908087&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

Jeopardy’ Icon Amy Schneider Announces Engagement To Girlfriend Genevieve Davis

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeopardy-amy-schneider-genevieve-davis-engaged_n_6217ef81e4b03d0c8035c2f3?d_id=3202118&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000050&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_queer_voices&fbclid=IwAR22MbnyQa-fJw6rIRVTfUoUzE5Tn1yxQRrVLK6f6loFISKQlqrC9ypULCQ

Huffington Post

Carl 👏 Clemons 👏 Hopkins 👏 #SAGAwards https://t.co/FDiPaSjlFo pic.twitter.com/JZatwB1ARH

— HuffPost (@HuffPost) February 28, 2022

Bayard Rustin – Inductee

https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/bayard-rustin

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson receives the U.S. Supreme Court nomination, Amy Schneider is engaged, Carl Clemons-Hopkins shows out on the SAG red carpet & we salute Bayard Rustin in our Black History Month spotlight – Monday, February 28, 2022