Today marks an iconic day in the history of the United States.

On April 15th , 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball, met with the Dodgers to break the league’s color barrier. The color barrier excluded African American players from playing in the Major and Minor leagues until 1947. Due to the pandemic this year, the Major League Baseball organization could not celebrate Jackie Robinson Day as they usually would on April 15th, so the organization thought today, August 28th would be the perfect day to commemorate Jackie Robinson due to the significant of the today’s date.

Not only were barriers being broken in baseball, On August 28th, 1963, in Washington D.C, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech,” a speech that would be groundbreaking for the civil rights movement. During the March on Washington, the speech was presented where over 260,000 people, both black and white, joined together at the Lincoln Memorial in solidarity for civil and economic rights for African Americans.

To top it off, on August 28th, 200, Senator Barrack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination, which led him to serve two terms as the first African American president in the history of the United States.

There is a lot to be celebrated today. As the nation continues this fight against racial injustices and inequality, it’s a reminder of how far we have come as a country, and how much further we must go.