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Dr. Gladys West. 1930 to 2026.

Born on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, Dr West became one of only four Black employees at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in 1956 and the second Black woman ever hired there.

The mathematician's calculations quietly became the backbone of GPS technology used by billions of people every single day. The world has navigated by her work for decades before it learned her name. That's the kind of legacy that doesn't need a spotlight to be real. It just is.

We honor Dr. West and the long line of Black women who built the future while the world looked the other way🤎

I love that in Masks Buck didn't hold back and was all "So I am gross? 🤨" and "PHONE!😤" and "and my boyfriend doesn't want to kiss me 😩" terrifying Tommy every breath, and yet Tommy was kind of like, "I'll stay by your side, take care of you, get dressed, and drive to the cemetery for the funeral of a cowboy who died about 100 years ago, and I'll even beg for the curse, which I don't believe in, to be lifted from you. And I do kiss you with plague or no plague."

look at him 🤏🥺

Buck, the 911 Operator Intern (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)