Black History Month Eric Sheppard Senior Budget Analyst Black History Month is a constant reminder that blacks are still not woven into the fabric of America. The numerous valuable contributions of blacks to the development of this nation should be recognized and praised by the masses on a continuous basis, not just during the month of February. There should not be a need for Black History Month.
Black history is American history.
As an African living in America, Black History Month has multiple meanings for me. It summons me to salute man's indomitable will to freedom. It reminds me of the painful historical trajectory of the black man's presence in the far-flung diasporas in Asia, the Americas, Europe and Australasia, but also of the indestructible, undeletable quality of that cultural presence. It invokes for me the paths of success traveled by illustrious ancestors from W.E.B. DuBois to Thurgood Marshall. Willis Wilson Head Basketball Coach Black history, to me, is not something you simply focus on one month out of the year.