Wednesday, February 28, 2018

THANK YOU BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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Before Black History Month there was Negro History Week founded in 1926 when Carter Woodson from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced that the 2nd week of February would be in celebration of African American history. This particular week coincidentally fell in line with Abraham Lincoln's birthday on February 12th and Frederick Douglass's on the 14th. A seemingly proper celebration.

By now we're familiar with the names Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou and Harriet Tubman all big faces of black history today. I thank Sojourner Truth, I thank Alain Leroy Locke, I thank Barack and Michelle Obama.

I also remember the names Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Sean Bell, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Mike Brown, Kimani Gray, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Philando Castile, Henrietta Lacks 
Black is beautiful, black is power, black is gold, black is important...
Thank you Black History Month 

Left: Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley; Right: Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald. 

"I want to thank you for so spectacularly capturing the grace and beauty and the intelligence and charm and hotness of the woman that I love,"



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my current lock screen

I also thank Ryan Coogler, Marvel, and the Black Panther cast who uplifted this ENTIRE month. To end my thoughts are with the victims, families of the victims, and those unfortunately involved in the mass shooting/act of violence that occurred Valentine's day. Something has to change.