Today we begin the month long celebration of Black History.
This year is the 100th anniversary of Black History Celebration.
One hundred years ago, Carter G. Woodson put forward a radical idea: that Black history deserved intentional study, recognition, and preservation. In 1926, Negro History Week was born—not as a symbolic gesture, but as a corrective. Woodson understood that Black contributions were foundational to the American story, yet routinely ignored, distorted, or erased.
A century later, that single week has grown into Black History Month—and it remains a powerful reminder that Black history is American history. It is a history of resilience, brilliance, resistance, and progress shaped by people who refuse to be invisible.
Since our founding, The Community Voice has been telling the full truth of our history, the good and the bad, has been central to our mission. Our Black History recognition goes beyond the well covered basics of Martin Luther King, Jr and Rosa Parks — essential as they are. Our coverage is local, regional, state, national and international.
It lives in archives and attics, in church basements and family photo albums. It emerges through first-person accounts—people sharing lived experiences that rarely make it into official records but are no less historic.
Those stories matter because they complete the record.
But today, when Black History is under attack, the work before us is even clearer.
The next chapter of our history is being written now — and it must be written by those willing to preserve truth, protect memory, and insist that our stories remain visible.
At The Community Voice, that responsibility remains unchanged. We will continue to tell the stories that history might otherwise forget—because our past, our present, and our future depend on it.
