February FACTS and LINKS

In the U.S., February, the shortest month of the year, is called "Black History Month". This page is a collection of links and readings, noting the event.

In February of 2003, I picked up a copy of The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B Du Bois, at a used book table. I made a little joke "What the heck, it's black history month, spend the buck". All I knew about the book, was a comment I overheard thirty years earlier, when a Black student holding the book, said to a friend, "White people never heard of this book." I then decided to make February my mont  ...