Topic: Black History

Synopsis: Black History Month is Every February and we share our thoughts and some of your listeners' thoughts about how it’s celebrated.

Questions: Black history month is coming to an end. Are you satisfied with how it was celebrated at work, home, school, or in your community? Black Black

Welcome to the Black History Episode for 2020

In this episode we discuss:

Our experience with black history

Should we have black history month? Some people think we shouldn’t

What our listeners thought

History of Black History

Harvard Trained Black historian Carter G Woodson announced that there will Negro History week this idea was birth in 1925 with his organization Association for the Study of Negro Life and History

He wanted to raise awareness on African American contributions to civilization

In 1976 it was acknowledged for an entire month

Kaye (anonymous)- shared that her daughter's school did a good job. They learned and sang songs related to black history and she dressed up as Sarah Mapps Douglass. Researched, presented, dressed as Sarah Douglas. Felt it was done tastefully

Tanysha_bellcurve (instagram) I am dissatisfied with how it’s celebrated at my job ... the only acknowledgement of anything black MLK and it's nothing how they do it... just a memo

as far as in my home

... well my mother is West Indian and always reminds me to "know who you are" " be true to yourself " ... so no it's not celebrated.

For the most part I celebrate by just reading articles or Something that pops up on my feed.

My community my African American friends celebrate, which I enjoy. Which is going to an all black poetry type of thing, welcomed by all, a black/sorority function, step dancing ... etc. you name it I am there.

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https://africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/about/

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QUOTE:

51st NAACP Image awards

"How many of us in this room have colleagues and partners and friends from other races, sexes, religions?, Well then, they want to break bread with you, right? They like you? Well then, this is their problem too. So when we're marching and protesting and posting about the Michael Brown Jr.s and the Atatiana Jeffersons of the world, tell your friends to pull up." -Rihanna

Emmys 2017

“I’m rooting for everybody black!” -Issa Rae