“The first night I performed...I got a standing ovation, and I ended up winning the performing arts award of the year at my school,” Brandon recalls of the moment he decided acting was his true calling. “It felt so freeing for me. It felt like I’ve spent my whole life kind of hiding a little bit from people, and I felt I could share so much of myself on stage behind these characters.” gd2690 The Bangtan Boys — RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jungkook —rocked Alexander McQueen ensembles gd2690 A plethora of important moments related to the struggle for Black freedom occurred in August: the beginning ofthe Haitian Revolutionin 1791, the 2014Ferguson uprisingthelanding of enslaved Africans gd2690 “I am here because I believe it is my civic duty to tell you what happened to me while Brett Kavanaugh and I were in high school,” Ford told the committee, adding that she was completely certain it was Kavanaugh who assaulted her and detailing her memory of “the uproarious laughter” of Kavanaugh and his friend, Mark Judge, as the two had “fun” at her expense. gd2690