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  • Take a look: Black Fireman Brought a Pole Into the Firehouse

    Take a look: Black Fireman Brought a Pole Into the Firehouse

    by Barbara Kyles

    Do you know that David Kenyon of Company 21, an all-African-American firehouse in Chicago “had an epiphany” and they thought the idea crazy—until they saw that Company 21 was often the first to arrive on scene?

    Take a look and welcome to Black history!

    I share with you this story from Smithsonian Magazine:

    https://www.facebook.com/smithsonianmagazine/posts/10157778961568253