Black excellence rules all year round, but the 28 days of February are always a special chance to highlight the best of the best when it comes to African-Americans. I was so excited about this year’s installment of Black History Month because of the positive momentum that Black folks were riding into February.
After all, we were fresh off of the historical announcement that California Sen. Kamala Harris would be running for president. She declared her candidacy in Oakland, a city that gave birth to the Black Panthers. And, for good measure, she made that announcement just days after holding a rally with her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, aka the AKAs, in South Carolina. Oh, and did we mention Harris made her announcement on the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday?
Of course, I’d be lying if I said I expected everything to be all good going into February. After all, this is still America and NewsOne still covers all aspects of the Black experience so history alone would tell you to proceed with caution in just about every arena imaginable — especially optimism.
But this is a new year and I’ll be damned, I thought, if I let all of the negativity consume my awareness, even if it is my job to follow a news cycle that’s dominated by racists and racism.
So here we are, highlighting the best of Black History Month, which always seems to fly by regardless of the limited number of days in February, even in a leap year. And, what should be to no one’s surprise, there was plenty to choose from to showcase on this timeline.
The bad always comes with the good (or however that saying goes), and this list simply focuses on the good things that happened in February for and about Black people. And while not all of it may immediately strike you as being a good thing, believe me, it is, in one way or another.
So, without further ado, please keep scrolling down to see NewsOne’s very best of Black History Month 2019.
