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February marks the start of Black History Month, a federally recognized celebration of the contributions African Americans have made to this country and a time to reflect on the continued struggle for racial justice.
Black History Month has become one of the most celebrated cultural heritage months on the calendar, said LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri.
Schools and businesses offer Black-history-themed meals, lectures, plays and quizzes while major brands roll out clothing, television specials and content for consumers, which can sometimes come off as tone-deaf, particularly when presented without context.
JACKSONVILLE BEACH Although there’s an understated elegance to its brick construction and long windows, the old schoolhouse is nothing fancy: a simple rectangle that once held four classrooms.
With links to a woman born into slavery who went on to teach children in her kitchen, it became known by several names: School #144, Jacksonville Beach Colored School and Jacksonville Beach Elementary.
For generations of Black residents at the Beaches, it became a distinct mark of pride, a centerpiece and social center for the community as well as a refuge during Hurricane Dora in 1964.
In the days before desegregation, kids came from the streets around the school, a Black neighborhood known as the Hill, as well as from Atlantic Beach and Mayport. It even drew some country kids from the San Pablo area across the Ditch.
Khari Thompson
The revolutionary spirit of Boston inspires Ibram X. Kendi.
But he’s not thinking about the Boston Tea Party or the ride of Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming.
And he’s not just driven by walking in the literal footsteps of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who attended Boston University as a doctoral student in theology nearly 70 years before Kendi joined its faculty last summer as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities.
No, Kendi – author of the 2019 best-selling book How To Be An Antiracist – has two mid-19th-century Boston abolitionists on his mind: Maria Stewart, a free-born Black woman he calls the mother of modern feminism; and the journalist William Lloyd Garrison, a journalist who published The Liberator newspaper from 1831 until the Civil War ended. Both advocated for the complete emancipation of enslaved people in America as early as the 1830s.
USA TODAY
February marks the start of Black History Month, a federally recognized celebration of the contributions African Americans have made to this country and a time to reflect on the continued struggle for racial justice.
Black History Month has become one of the most celebrated cultural heritage months on the calendar, said LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of Missouri.
Schools and businesses offer Black-history-themed meals, lectures, plays and quizzes while major brands roll out clothing, television specials and content for consumers, which can sometimes come off as tone-deaf, particularly when presented without context.