![]() MARK YOUR CALENDARS : Don’t forget to REGISTER for an Implicit Bias workshop this spring.Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman Quote of the Month: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.Parham, Ph.D., ABPP, is professor of counseling and interim associate dean of faculty in the LMU School of Education. “What can I do today that is better than I did yesterday, knowing that it may not be as good as what I will do tomorrow”? In closing, the sagacious curiosities of our aforementioned pioneers and their life-altering discoveries from which we continue to benefit, merits recognition expressed in honoring a daily challenge framed in the following question: Hate-force is perpetrated against persons and communities who possess a threatening level of mental, physical, and moral strengths that are beyond measure and that can never be fully contained. Hate-force is not exerted on persons and communities declared defective, deficient, innately fragmented and from whom there is no perceived threat. Let’s consider, for example, that logical and predictable responses to assertions of deficiencies and inferiorities would not prompt all-out embraces of socially sanctioned systems of oppression and targeted and strategic assaults on equal rights, equity, and fairness. And, these assertions need to be confronted. Said philosophies and practice are grounded in assertions about inferiority, lack, and deficiencies in all groups characterized as non-White males. racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia) in America and throughout the world continue to be pervasive and unrelenting. Their brilliance was not solely in their individual and collective abilities to cull fact from fiction they had a special talent and aptitude for showcasing Black excellence by unmasking must-be-considered-observations about America’s race relations.Ī key observation is framed in the following question: Has America failed at addressing oppression and race-hatred or, has America succeeded at not addressing the social maladies, choosing instead to maintain status quo? A second observation reminds us that ‘ism-ideological’ philosophies and practices (e.g. Their individual and collective wisdom and knack for acute mental discernment can’t be overstated. Dubois, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Mae Jemison, Ralph Bunche, and Cheikh Anta Diop, to name only a few. Woodson and countless other distinguished African American and African pioneers including Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. His lifelong work illuminated critical omissions about African American contributions to the making of America and in doing so exposed myriad false narratives, authored largely by White historians and complicit allies, that were promoted as believable ‘truths’.Īs I reflect during Black History Month, I am reminded of the genius evident in the courageous, deliberate, and ‘dare-me-to-do-it’ attitude in Dr. Woodson remained steadfast and intentional relative to educating African American students about ‘their’ history and sharing information with them that more accurately reflected their ever-evolving journeys as difference-makers. Throughout his illustrious career as an educator, author, and journalist, Dr. He is also the co-founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History ( 1915) and founder of the Journal of Negro History (1916). Woodson, Ph.D., is known as the Father of Black History. It represents a time to pause and reflect on the significant and substantial contributions, across time, of African Americans in all walks of life including but not limited to medicine, science, engineering, mathematics, education, politics, law, civil rights, media, the arts, agriculture, astronomy, literature, psychology, theology, technology, athletics, and as inventors.Ĭarter G. It is only when the water is still will their reflected image begin to emerge! Black History Month, formerly Negro History Week (launched in 1926), is an annual celebration of Black life in America and throughout the African diaspora. ![]() It has been said that a person will never see their reflection in running water.
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