Ten years ago this week, @CoachMcCallum and @RayMac3 led the University of Detroit Titans to the Horizon League tournament championship and an NCAA tournament bid! True Titan fans have not forgotten.

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When the President of France visited the United States in April 1960, he asked the FBI to help him find a man. The man he was looking for was an American citizen. He was sixty-four years old. He had been awarded fifteen French military decorations and — six months earlier, in a ceremony in Paris — had been made a Knight of the Légion d'honneur, the highest civilian honor France can give. The medal had been pinned to his chest by the President himself, who had publicly called him un véritable héros français. A true French hero. The FBI located the man within a few days. He was operating an elevator at Rockefeller Center in New York City. The elevator operator's name was Eugene Bullard. He had been born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1895, the son of a man whose own father had been a slave. He had run away from Columbus at the age of eleven, after watching a white mob nearly lynch his father. He spent the next several years drifting through the American South. At sixteen, he stowed away on a German freighter at Norfolk, Virginia. He landed in Aberdeen, Scotland. From there he made his way to London, where he learned to box. By 1913, at eighteen, he was prizefighting in Paris. When Germany invaded France in August 1914, Bullard was nineteen years old. He had no legal obligation to fight. He had no French citizenship. He went to the recruiting office on October 19, 1914, and signed up for the French Foreign Legion. He spent the next eighteen months as an infantryman in some of the worst fighting of the war — at the Somme, at Champagne, at Verdun. He was wounded three times. The third wound, on March 5, 1916, tore open his thigh and left him with permanent damage to his leg. He was twenty years old. The doctors told him he would not return to the infantry. He decided he wanted to fly. In a Paris café in the spring of 1916, while he was recovering, Bullard mentioned to three white American friends that he was thinking of joining the French air service. A Mississippian named Jeff Dickson laughed. Gene, Dickson said, you know damn well there aren't any Negroes in aviation. Bullard answered: Sure do. That's why I want to get into it. There has to be a first to everything, and I'm going to be the first. Dickson bet him two thousand dollars he would not make it. Bullard took the bet. He earned his pilot's license on May 5, 1917. He won the bet. He reported to the front in August 1917 and flew approximately twenty combat missions over the next three months in a SPAD VII. The fuselage was painted with a bleeding heart pierced by a knife and the French phrase Tout le Sang qui Coule est Rouge — All Blood that Flows is Red. He carried, on every combat flight, a small capuchin monkey named Jimmy in the front of his flight jacket. The French press began calling him L'Hirondelle Noire — the Black Swallow. When the United States entered the war in 1917, Bullard immediately applied to transfer to the U.S. Army Air Service. His application was rejected. The U.S. Army Air Service had a policy, in 1917, of not accepting Black pilots. The other American pilots flying for France in his unit, all of them white, were transferred to the U.S. Air Service. He was the only one who was not. For the next twenty years, he was one of the most familiar faces in the Montmartre nightlife of Paris between the wars. He owned a nightclub called L'Escadrille. He spoke fluent French, English, and German. Hemingway drank there. Fitzgerald drank there. Langston Hughes drank there. Josephine Baker performed there. Louis Armstrong was a personal friend. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Bullard was forty-four. His fluent German and his ownership of a nightclub frequented by German officers made him useful to the French Resistance. He became an intelligence agent — eavesdropping in his own bar on conversations between German officers who did not know he understood every word. When France fell in June 1940, friends in the Resistance smuggled him across the Spanish border before the Gestapo could arrest him. He came back to the United States for the first time in twenty-eight years. He arrived in New York with thirty dollars in his pocket and a permanent limp. He did not return to a hero's welcome. He returned to a country that had no idea who he was. He worked at a perfume counter. He worked as a security guard. He worked at the Staten Island shipyards. By the late 1940s, he had taken the job that he would hold for most of the rest of his life. He operated the elevator at Rockefeller Center. He was wearing the elevator uniform on the day a producer from NBC came down from the studios upstairs to ask if he was the man Charles de Gaulle had been looking for. A few weeks later, NBC sent a film crew to interview him in the lobby. The studios where NBC produced The Today Show were on the floors above. He had operated the elevator that took the network executives up to those studios every morning for nearly ten years. He had not been recognized as he did it. He went back to operating the elevator the following Monday. He died of stomach cancer on October 12, 1961, three days after his sixty-sixth birthday. He was buried in the French War Veterans' section of Flushing Cemetery, in Queens, in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion. The casket was draped with the French flag. In 1994 — thirty-three years after his death — the United States Air Force formally commissioned Eugene Jacques Bullard as a Second Lieutenant, posthumously. It was the first commission the U.S. military had ever offered him. He had been the first Black combat pilot in American history. The French had been calling him a hero since 1917. The Americans got around to it in 1994.

Celebrating Pride and promoting gun safety awareness in Hallowell and Brunswick today…

Please retweet: My name is David Costello. I am a lifelong Mainer and Democrat running against Susan Collins. I too am concerned. I am concerned with endless decisions Susan Collins has made. We need to turn a page, retire Susan and take back the US Senate. Please watch and RT:

I’m a 24 year Army Veteran out of the 82nd Airborne Division. And I’m running for Congress because I refuse to sit quietly while war mongering politicians turn our military institutions into a playground for racism and political payback.

This Memorial Day, we honor and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. Their legacy is etched in the 250 years of American freedom they defended.

SAM ELLIOTT looking fantastic at 81

Since Mike Davis was officially named head coach at Valley, he's quickly gotten 2 commitments He pretty much has to build the roster from scratch due to the #TransferPortal. Definitely leaning on JUCO/portal guys We can't get any with 5 wins in 3 years lol #MVSU #HBCU #BIFTV

.@SenSusanCollins has gotten all too comfortable staying silent as the President takes a wrecking ball to our Constitution. This moment demands someone who will fight back. I've stood up to him before, and I'm not afraid to do it again in the Senate.

Seven years ago today 7 Republican lawmakers, including now Senate Majority Leader John Thune, celebrated the 4th of July in Moscow.

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“There is only one time, the only time that we are allowed to look down upon others, is when we are offering to help them get back up." - Pope Francis

I am grateful to the good people of Pennsylvania for giving me the honor to serve as their 48th Governor, and nothing will stop me from continuing to pour every ounce of my being into this work.

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Episode 7 is up now ‼️Link in bio Welcome to Taipei 🇹🇼

Titan Nation How We Feeling 👀👀 I would like to thank @Coach_Monty_ , @lamontastone and the rest of The Detroit Mercy Coaching Staff for an amazing visit!! @DetroitMercyMBB @JUCOadvocate @jakelieberman2 @BlinnMBB @Coach_Monty_ @lamontastone @CoachSchuHoops #notcommitted

Leonard Hamilton broke the color barrier at UT-Martin as a basketball player. His UT-Martin teammates were courtside today for his final home game at FSU.

The Harlem Hell fighters were an all Black regiment in WWI. They served on the front lines longer and were awarded more medals than any other unit. They need to be in our history books and praised for their achievements in America's classrooms. #BlackHistoryMonth #DemsUnited

Oleta Crain was a trailblazer. She was born in 1913 and died in 2007. Oleta advocated for Black women’s rights. In 1943, 300 women nationwide entered the military officer training. Oleta was one out of three African Americans entering. She served in the United States Air Force for 20 years, retiring with the rank of major. #BlackHistoryWithLana #DemsUnited #BlackHistoryMonth

The #TuskegeeAirmen. Essential and impactful American History!