✊🏾 Black History Month — Yesterday’s Roots. Today’s Rise. Tomorrow’s Promise.

Black History Month is more than dates on a calendar — it’s a living hymn. A roll call of courage. A sacred rhythm passed down from porch stories and classroom chalkboards, from church pews and city streets. We honor the giants who carried the torch — Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Frederick Douglass — and we celebrate the everyday heroes who kept hope alive when history tried to hush it. This month, we remember where we’ve been — chains turned to change, struggle turned to strategy, pain turned to poetry.

We lift up: ✨ Legacy — the elders who showed us how to stand tall ✨ Excellence — Black brilliance in science, art, faith, business, and community ✨ Resilience — generations who built tomorrow with calloused hands and open hearts ✨ Joy — because even in hard seasons, our people danced Here in Tucson and beyond, we keep the old ways sacred: telling our stories out loud, teaching our children the truth, gathering the community, and pouring into the next generation. Tradition matters. Roots matter. And so does forward motion. Black history didn’t stop being written in 1968. It’s being written right now — in classrooms, boardrooms, neighborhoods, and living rooms.

So this February, take a moment: Light a candle of gratitude. Share a story with a young person. Support Black-owned businesses. Show up for community. And walk boldly into the future, carrying the past like a crown. Because we are living history — and the best chapters are still ahead.

🖤❤️💚 Happy Black History Month.

We honor the past. We stand in the present. We build the future.