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It’s Black History Month
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The shortest month of the year. I suppose I need to have a thoughtful post. My first thought is that we need a Black future month.
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I am very interested in opinions about the continued existence of Black History Month. As such, I’d be very interested in an expanded discussion of what you wrote here! I am not doing a BHM “blogathon” this year, but I do hope to comment on the argument I have seen around that, because we now have Obama, BHM is outdated…
Hope all is well with you and your family!
[...] Black History Month in the US - Rachel’s Tavern reports, “the shortest month of the year”. We fared much better here in the UK - we had a 3 [...]
Do they teach afrocentric myths like blacks developed mathematics & philosophy during this month? I was surprised to learn how many people believe this stuff that Mary Leftkowitz debunked years ago.