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Black History Month: celebrating family roots and unity.

By: Xavier Wright


Q:  What does black history month mean to you in the year 2020? How do you define it? What does it represent?

 Q: What’s the identity you want it to portray?

Q: What do you want people to see with Black excellence/history?

Q: Which lenses do you use to see black excellence?

Sports? Fashion? Dance? Poetry? Certain ways individuals look?

Some of my current famous figures of black excellence are : 

  • Lebron James 

  • Simone Biles 

  • Common 

  • Ermias “ Nipsey Hussle “ Asghedom

  • John Singleton 

  • Rudy Francisco 

  • Michelle Obama 

  • Dr. Umar Johnson 

  • Burna Boy 

Some of my historic figures of black excellence : 

  • Detroit Red also is known as Malcolm X

  • Marcus Garvey 

  • James Baldwin 

  • Maya Angelou 

  • Angela Davis 

  • Fred Hampton 

  • Count Basie 

  • Duke Ellington 

  • Dick Gregory 

  • Bob Marley 

  • Daniel Hale Williams 

  • Hattie McDaniel