A 2026 Reading Challenge to Honor Black History Month
It’s one thing to make a mistake, misspelling a word or misquoting a date or material fact. Those errors can be corrected or noted for what it was, a mistake. It’s another thing to intentionally ‘soften’ or ‘roughen up’ facts that are to serve as historical references for heirs (or fans) to glean insight. Now, just in general, and quoting one of my mother’s old adages, “the beat will go on.” Oh, man I used to get so annoyed when she said that one. “No mom! We are not moving on! This issue must be remedied.” But it took (my quote) “living and learning…” thanks mom, to understand why she refused to talk about her young life. Blotting things out and refusing to store them was her beat. The point, or rather confession here… it was a long time before I could read books written by black Americans on topics of what they had to overcome. Gosh, I read one of those books, and never forgot it, about a little girl and her young brother, Lord Jesus, and what they went through. And this story was wr...
