West: Reflections on Black history (it isn't just a February thing)
Sharon West
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I realize Black History Month has passed, but while recently trekking a 4-mile hike through my old neighborhood in East End with my dear friend, I began to reminisce. He is white and I am not. We chatted about Black History Month and vented to each other about how very important it is to acknowledge the contributions of Black people in our country regularly — not just one month of the year.
I took a moment to reflect on the time when my mother shared with my brother and me that we would be changing schools. Our beautiful, new, and wonderfully maintained school, located in a cohesive Black neighborhood of East End, would no longer be the school we would be attending.