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Share your stories and conversations celebrating Black History in February and beyond.

@Izzy
Izzy S-L
@Izzy · 4:39

Why is Black History Month Celebrated in February?

article image placeholderWhy Is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
So this led to Woodson introducing a Negro History and Literature Week with his College fraternity. This led to greater attention to African American history and then the official launch of what was then called Negro History Week in February of 1926. So why February? Well, February is the birth month of Abraham Lincoln, who is very important in black history as he is the President who issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But February is also the birth month of Frederick Douglass, who is a black abolitionist, author and orator

Discussing historical figures such as Carter Woodson, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass https://bit.ly/3pIhPo6

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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 1:29
And I'm wondering what if any correlation there is between that and the Harlem Renaissance? I'm sure it had some influence either way, the Harlem Renaissance is something I can talk about for hours just because I think it was extremely important in a time in America's history that founded a lot of culture, music, art, fashion, literature that still has impact today. Just a really important time that we often don't learn enough about
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@bookishpodcast
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 2:46

Thank you @Izzy and @Phil

He connected this well to his well, so that's how I found this. Well, I want to thank Phil for pulling me here. And I'm looking forward to hearing more. Yeah, I'm just looking forward to hearing more. I guess my exposure really to Black history and all of that more started really significantly with Black Lives Matter movement. And of course, being the bookish person been reading more. And last year we did white privilege. No, not white privilege
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:20

Thank you

And it's a sense of pride and sadness that only black American history is what we can pull from, not of Shakazulu and of other tribes in Africa. It's only in America that we really can sing the highest praises of Black History Month because the origins of it were Black Americans in terms of the celebration. But either way, we haven't have to still recognize the great feats that these glorious men and women have made in terms of bettering the lives of all. So thank you for this swell
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 2:39

@Wuandurful Thank you

And we're going to make a difference now and over time that anger kind of wanes and doesn't really come up again until the next event. And then it goes through the same kind of cycle. And in between there we kind of lose the history of these events. And I don't know why that is. And I'm not sure that's where you were going with kind of lost history, but that's how I see a lot of things
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@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 2:57

@bookishpodcast Langston Hughes

And there's one poet, essayist, novelist, activist that I really kind of gravitated to. And that was Langston Hughes. I thought he was just so courageous in his writings. I thought he was really brilliant. And he just opened the door for a lot of writers, regardless of race. And I think he was the first one. He was definitely one of the first, if not the first, to really explore the topic of homosexuality and homophobia
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