February is recognized as Black History Month. An entire month to bring national attention to the large contribution of African-Americans in history. It has been celebrated annually since 1926. Carter G. Woodson, an African American, Harvard-educated historian, first conceived the second week in February as what was then known the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Woodson selected the week in February that embraced the birthdays of both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. If you are reading this and are an African-American embrace your culture, your skin, and your heritage. But if you're not...go out and research the contributions African-Americans have made for this country through out history.
http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/
"Step outside yourself, then look back, and you will see how human, yet how beautiful and black you are, how very black, even when you're integrated." -Langston Hughes
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