My Issue With Black History Month

Relegating Black history to just one month means compressing over 400 years of complex, diverse, and foundational American history into a 28-day period of "sanitized" or superficial recognition. This practice isolates Black contributions from the mainstream historical narrative, treating them as tangential rather than integral to the story of the United States. I believe that confinement to February suggests that Black history isn’t significant enough to be included in the, roughly, 337 other days of the year! Make it make sense!

Dr. Robert L. Taylor, Th.D., theologian & Bible teacher