Black History Month 2023

Thank you for sunshine,

Thank you for rain,

Thank you for joy,

Thank you for pain.

It’s a beautiful day-ay-ay-ay-ay!

It’s a beautiful day-aaay-ay-ay.

Thank you for Black Boy Joy. Thank you for Black Girl Hair. Thank you for Black Mommas’ Big Bonnets, full of big brains.

Thank you for Every Black Body that came home safe today, unmarred by handcuffs, untouched by pain.

Thank you for lessons learned on cruel ships, thank you for resilience forged in heavy chains,

Thank you for joy that comes from great gains.

Thank you for Martin, Malcolm, Rosa and Harriet.

For Breonna, for Tyre, Trayvon, and Big George.

O Octavia, with your soul in the stars, O Tupac in Heaven, still spittin your bars,

Thank you for all the songs that held us aloft when our bodies grew weary.

Thank you for stories that captivate us, teary.

Thank you for melanin that glows in the sun,

Thank you for breath to continue

up the mountain of work yet undone.