• Baye McNeil teaches a lesson on the year-end holiday of Kwanzaa to students at a public school in Yokohama. Injecting a variety of perspectives into the educational curriculum is crucial to helping children gain exposure to more than just one narrative of Western culture.
    Baye McNeil teaches a lesson on the year-end holiday of Kwanzaa to students at a public school in Yokohama. Injecting a variety of perspectives into the educational curriculum is crucial to helping children gain exposure to more than just one narrative of Western culture.
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The end of February means an end to this year’s Black History Month, but that only has me thinking about its beginnings.

The annual observation of the triumphs and struggles of Black Americans hasn’t always been a month long. I can still remember it being Black History Week when I was in school — which itself was an achievement considering the attitudes of many of the white Americans in power.

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