Don’t let your celebration be limited to the month of February. Extend your celebration, learning, and recognition of Black history throughout the year. Challenge your biases about Black people. Read books by Black authors. Watch films by Black screenwriters. Support Black businesses. Let Black people share their histories, and listen.
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Even as this country celebrates Black History Month every February, there seems to be an astounding hate for Blackness and Black people. Our ancestors have not only fought in this country’s wars and been instrumental in the construction of this nation, we are as deeply invested as other Americans in the righting of this place we call home.
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The rejection of this curriculum is squarely situated in the territory of “political agenda” — one that values the experiences and history of white people above others: white supremacy. Black history is not a political agenda. It is a truth, a lived experience, a celebration. It offers vital context for understanding dynamics that continue to play out today, at all levels of systems.
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I took a sabbatical because I am entitled to rest and accessing joy at any time. I took a sabbatical because it was my middle finger to the white supremacist systems that I’ve operated in for years. I took a sabbatical because it gave me the space to answer the one question I never asked myself: “What do you want?”
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While many are familiar with the concept of the “glass ceiling,” fewer have heard of the accompanying phenomenon known as the “glass cliff.” The glass cliff is especially precarious for women from historically marginalized and excluded communities – namely Black women.
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