*It’s Black History Month 2025 in the US. And for all the speculations going about, regarding Black History Month in the US, it must be known that Black History is more than an individual’s opinion or just celebrating and setting aside a month for it. Black History should be celebrated all year round as history in the US is incomplete without Black History.
Great men and women from the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement era, gave it all and some, laid down their lives and paved the way for many of various ethnic backgrounds to enjoy the freedom and equality they now have and enjoy and to vote as well.
Some reached the echelons of power they never would have dreamt of if not for the Civil Rights Movement. That’s why diversity should not be a target but embraced for the history it’s making. It’s a good thing and progressive.
Black History Month was initially called Black Negro Month and was the idea of African American CARTER G. WOODSON.
He chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because of its link to Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on Feb. 12 and Frederick Douglass’ birthday or Douglass Day, which falls on Feb. 14.
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BHM took off in the 1960s in the US during the Black Power Movement. Other countries picked it up as it became more important and with more presence of Black people who had settled in various countries. It became an idea embraced by many. I wanted to document African History at art School whilst in the US. After relocating to the UK, I had to change content to cover Black History in the diaspora. It was in the UK that I was then aware of Black History Month which is celebrated in October every year it made OUR ROOTS and recently the illustrated FACT FINDER to reveal numerous facts about the Black race and, more importantly, to produce, to teach, educate and to inform. OUR ROOTS here recognizes the first Rasta and Ink Pot award winner and a female African American pioneer in cartooning in the U.S. who has followed in the footsteps of her father a cartoonist himself in his time. FACT FINDER reveals more facts. Happy Black History Month and all year round.
TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com via EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer, and Illustrator and is an artist of the African diaspora. He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School, in New Jersey, US, and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning Global Forum in Paris, France and has held a virtual OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti image is prominently featured in Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit song “Ye”. – TAYO is the illustrator behind the pictorial Black history walk map on a lectern that guides the famous walk in Camberwell, South East London, U.K. https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123
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