February 2007

"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you- always"
Oprah Winfrey

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
Rosa Parks

"God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed"
African Proverb

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom"
Malcolm X

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth"
Shirley Chisholm

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now"
Bill Cosby

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power"
Barbara Jordan

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed"
Booker T. Washington

"Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind."
Quincy Jones

In 1926, Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week and celebrated it the 2nd week in February due to it being aligned with 2 influential figures in the lives of African-Americans, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays.

In 1976 the Negro History Week expanded to a month of celebration of Black History.

The work of Woodson is continued today through the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, an organization founded in 1915 by Woodson in order to study and promote black history. This organization’s mission is upheld with designated themes for Black History Month and this year the theme is "From Slavery to Freedom"

To learn more of the months events and Black History please visit these sites:

• Black History.com
• Black History Month-Info Please/
• The African American World/
• The African American Mosaic/