Do schools not acknowledge Black History Month anymore? It’s astonishing how many people don’t know who Martin Luther King is, or Maya Angelou or Virginia Hamilton or Rosa Parks. When I was in school, we would do projects to learn about influential black Americans, we learned about slavery and freedom and the struggles that still exist. There are states that want to take slavery and the violence against Native Americans and black Americans out of school text books. That’s how you prevent history from repeating itself. You keep teaching it, the good and the bad. You inspire students with stories of wonderful, passionate people who changed the world with their words, their music, their simple actions. That’s how you make them want to be better people, and that’s how you prevent future intolerance. Black history is American history. An important aspect of American history, and should be treated as such.

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