Similar to Black History Month, Women’s History Month actually began as National Women’s History Week. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8. WomensHistoryMonth
I like to spend the month of February reflecting on the major accomplishments of Black people, past and present, in the United States and abroad, those who I know and those I will likely never meet. Last month we saw killings of unarmed and innocent Black people…again. We also saw the nomination of the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
As a Black woman, I like to think of Black History and Women’s History Month as a two-month celebration and reflection. Black women have been and continue to be the backbone of the Democratic Party and democracy in this country. I am currently completing a book on the amazing efforts of the late Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, organizer and Mississippi freedom fighter Fannie Lou Hamer, and current Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.