Black History Month Facts

While February is Black History Month, the exploration of black history should not be isolated to a single month. Black history is American history, and understanding the perspective and information contained in these important chapters of American history are lessons that provide us a way forward by examining our past.

There are stories left to tell about the history of black America. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "The tendency to ignore the Negro's contribution to American life and strip him of his personhood is as old as the earliest history books and as contemporary as the morning's newspaper." It is important to find those stories and tell those truths.

The earliest recorded…