Media Newsletter
February
African American History Pride Week
Black History Month Spirit Week
📅 February 24th - 28th
🖤 Celebrating Black Excellence & Culture
Monday, Feb 24 – Blackout Monday
🔲 Wear all black to honor Black excellence, resilience, and unity.
Tuesday, Feb 25 – 70’s Throwback Tuesday
🕺🏽 Dress in 70s-inspired fashion to celebrate the cultural icons and style of the decade.
Wednesday, Feb 26 – HBCU/College Day
🎓 Represent your favorite HBCU or any college/university with apparel.
Thursday, Feb 27 – Dress in Sunday’s Best
👔 Wear your elegant and formal attire to honor the tradition of looking our best for special occasions.
Friday, Feb 28 – Pan-African Pride Day
❤️💚💛 Wear red, green, black, or yellow to celebrate African heritage and unity.
"Black history is American history." – Morgan Freeman
📌 Join us in celebrating Black excellence all month long!
When you think of famous Black women to look up to, your mind might wander to Michelle Obama, Serena Williams, or Beyoncé. But these contemporary role models are far from the first influential Black women in history who made lasting change in the United States.
The ground-breaking firsts stretch back centuries, beyond Rosa Parks and Katherine Johnson — one of the mathematicians for NASA who had a hand in sending Americans to space for the first time. It’s important to remember these women and how they made society what it is today — during Black History Month, and all year ‘round.
“One can tell a great deal about a people, about a nation, by what it deems important enough to remember,” as Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, wrote in The Guardian.
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander
This is a love letter to America. To Black America. To the grit, passion, and perseverance of our greatest artist, athletes, and activists. To the dreamers. To the strength and bravery of everyday people caught in the web of history.
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin the Queen of Soul by Carrol Boston Weatherford
From a creative team with multiple Caldecott Honors comes this vibrant portrait of Aretha Franklin that pays her the R-E-S-P-E-C-T this Queen of Soul deserves.
