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.