Black history an everyday affair

Black history an everyday affair

Somewhere, someone is making Black history right now, today. It could be a kid studying to become a scientist. It could be a high-schooler brushing up on his or her math or English.

It could be a college grad working his or her way up to the top of the corporate, Fortune 500 ladder. It could be the captain of a basketball or baseball team. It could be the next Colin Powell, Maxine Waters, Barbara Reynolds, Vernon Jarrett, Harold Washington or Alexis Herman.

As we mark the halfway point of Black History Month next week, we ask: Why just relegate it to a mere, abbreviated month when so many people are making Black -- and American -- history each and every day of the year, every year?

We should celebrate Black history every day.

That is one of the reasons that we run excerpts on Black history daily, in our "This Day In Black History" and "This Weekend in Black History" as featurettes on the pages of the Chicago Defender.

Students, readers, follow us and learn.

It is nice to have a special time set aside for the commemoration of Black accomplishment and achievement in America and elsewhere, but when Black people are doing great things every day of the year -- sans February -- it seems kind of patronizing to devote only a month to the focus.

Students, parents, children, educational administrators and the like should make the teaching and learning of Black history a constant thing. After all, we are constantly progressing -- and making Black history.

Make this day, this month and this year and each of the successive ones a real learning experience about Blacks, past, present and future.

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