Celebrating Black History Month

Hey loves!!!

If you know us even a little, you know we integrate Black History into our present and future all year long. To me, there’s honestly no other way to do it. Our history is so dee, so rich, so very textured and greatly vast. You can’t fit in into a month. So to celebrate Black History, we had a lot of fun. 

To be honest, I had to check myself on this one-Basically, I was teaching Black History and learning myself but failed to actually plan something to celebrate Black History Month. Fail. Thanks to some IG friends, I changed that up real quick. 

Again, we celebrate and integrate Black History all year so when James said, “I want to watch Red Tails” it was a very quick yes. 

Here’s why- we could’ve watched any movie about pilots or planes. We didn’t. We consciously chose to allow ou Black sons to see themselves as Actors, as an Ensemble of Actors. We chose to let them see what was endured for them. We chose to celebrate the victories and mourn with them. We chose to remind them of the Tuskegee Institute and how, while it was expected to fail miserably, in spite of every detriment and deterrent, our people soared. 

We screened the movie from our projector, movie the tater style with some super snack caddies. That’s not the highlight for me though. 

If anything, it inspired me to celebrate more with my kids. I mean, Coming to America 2 comes out on March 4 and we are surely celebrating all that beautiful Blackness.

I say all this to say, well implore you to celebrate Black History all year long. Embed it in your life. Learn it. Teach it. Respect it. Honor it.

Love you. Mean it.