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Featured Picture:  af_am_tour_at_white_house.jpg In celebration of Black History Month, my Team, the Southwest Airlines Community Affairs & Grassroots Department sponsored The ... read more

Black History Month as we know it now, began in 1926 as Negro History Week, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. He never saw it as a one-week-a-year affair but something to be taught constantly. He believed that Black History was too important to America and the world to be crammed into a limited time frame. 532 ... read more

During Black History month, I take pride in acknowledging our Great Leaders who began the “Journey to Freedom.” Those freedoms include the freedom to education, the advancement of humanity, the understanding that one’s civility becomes the character of one’s existence. 397 Vote up! ... read more

History is always in the making at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum located in Baltimore, Maryland.  Since 1989, the Museum has been in the business of producing and exhibiting hundreds of African-American wax figures.  Southwest Airlines has supported the Museum for six years as the Official Airline of the National Traveling Exhibit.  The Southwest Cargo department 361 ... read more

Black History Month sometimes comes and goes without us ever realizing it. I remember Black History Month when I was a kid, and we always leaned about who I would call the big three, Martin Luther King Jr., George Washington Carver, and Rosa Parks. 100 ... read more