Black History
I AM MY ANCESTORS WILDEST DREAMS
THE BLACK WOMAN
Happy Wednesday, Golden Divas!
It’s Black History Month! The month of February (the shortest month of the year); is when the country highlights and celebrates Black Americans’ many accomplishments. But for many African Americans, Black history is essential for all Americans to know and learn about, most of all to understand!
Thank you, Carter G. Woodson, for starting this prodigious act of creating memories with the black race in 1926. The Harvard-trained historian organized the National Negro History Week to promote and celebrate the achievements of Black Americans. Yes, to the man that set the trail a blazing. His extraordinary act has grown into today’s “Black History Month,” where all presidents recognize it.
The Black History Month 2021 theme, “Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity,” explores the African diaspora and the spread of Black families across the United States.
The colors red, black, and the green represents the journey of our history. Red: the blood that unites all people of Black African ancestry and shed for liberation. Black: black people whose existence as a nation, though not a nation-state, is affirmed by the flag’s presence. Green: the abundant natural wealth of Africa.
Club Fifty is paying homage to the alluring black women in a collage of black women wearing beautiful African head wraps for Black History! Black Girls Rock and they always will; we are our ancestor’s wildest dreams. Our melanin skin is made to perfect delight, dripping with sun-kissed and chocolate-dipped hues.
Kudos to all of the men and women who have carried the torch so we can be right here now in the present, holding our heads high. The list goes on and on of influential African Americans that paved the way trailblazing with “self-sacrifice and a willingness to take great risks for the collective good!”
The black woman’s list of accomplishments rides on from slavery, civil rights, and politics right into 2021 of Kamala Harris’s swearing as vice president of the United States. The very talented Amanda Gorman was citing poetry at the inauguration this past January to being the first to cite poetry at the Superbowl. We are still evolving as a race and gender rising to the top.
As African American women, we have endured many broken backs, setbacks, and comebacks that will make your head spin with perseverance and sweat. From our luminary ancestors to our present-day history makers, we are a never-ending force to be reckoned with as black and brown women to accomplish our American goals.
Black women are black history, and we celebrate it 365 days a year. We are queens, fierce, intelligent, smart, sexy, and nurturing. We are strong, brave, independent, beautiful, magical, resilient, loveable, creative, powerful, sensual, influential, and free.
We are unapologetic black women!