Today, I combed the Internets for a video/visual that could really capture some of what Black History month means to me and I found this moving video presentation on ordinary black women:

When you sift through, you definitely will see the greats that your kid sibling is probably learning about: Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, members of the Little Rock Nine, Emmet Till and his mother, Angela Davis, Shirley Chisolm, and Sojourner Truth. But the beauty of this video is the way it captures the everyday black women who labored in cotton fields, homes, railroads, factories, and in many industries that were central to making this country what it is today. But Black women weren’t just ...