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.

Our memories of Rosa Parks, the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, remind us that everyday is Black History.  Rosa Parks was known as an ordinary woman who did extraordinary things.  Recently, in Washington, D.C., I was invited by the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute to represent Southwest Airlines at the U.S.

Southwest Airlines understands how seeing, touching, hearing, and doing opens up a whole new world for students—they are teachable and impressionable moments, said Karen Price-Ward, Corporate Community Affairs Manager for Southwest Airlines. We must continue to show our youth that they can do whatever they set out to do, if they work hard and believe in themselves.

Legendary Tuskegee Airmen Lee A. Archer Jr died Wednesday , January 27th at New York Hospital, New York, NY of coronary complications. He was 90.
 
Lee Archer, Jr.

We are honored to have a guest post from Hardy Brown II, the Executive Director of The Black Voice Foundation:

Over the last 12 years, educators from Southern California's Inland
region, have learned first hand about the incredible courage of the