Whereas Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar is recognized as a singular historical figure, celebrated in India and around the world for his lasting contributions as a jurist, economist, socioeconomic reformer, civil rights leader, spiritual icon, freedom fighter, feminist, and the architect of India’s constitution; Whereas Ambedkar’s slogan, Educate, Agitate, Organize mobilized millions around the world to organize against discrimination based on religion, gender, race, class, and caste, and to promote universal equality and human rights; Whereas Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891, in the town and military cantonment of the Mhow in the Central Provinces in the modern-day state of Madhya Pradesh, India, and April 14, 2020, represents the 129th anniversary of his birth; Whereas Ambedkar was born into a family that belonged to the Hindu Mahar community, one of the untouchable castes in India at the time; Whereas Ambedkar overcame systemic discrimination and went on to succeed against the odds to champion the rights of the most marginalized people in Indian society; Whereas Ambedkar became one of the first Indians to gain international repute as a scholar for his research in law, economics and political science, earning doctorates in economics from Columbia University and the London School of Economics; Whereas Ambedkar was deeply moved by witnessing the discrimination against African Americans and women in the United States, which informed his pursuit to guarantee equal rights for all in the Constitution of India; Whereas Ambedkar contacted W.E.B. Du Bois in the 1940s, writing that there is so much similarity between the position of the Untouchables in India and of the position of the Negroes in America that the study of the latter is not only natural but necessary , and Du Bois wrote with encouragement that he had every sympathy with the Untouchables of India