Black History Month 2011

Well, today is the first day of Black History Month, started by Carter G. Woodson in order to help and encourage our people to learn more about our past, document our present so that we make informed choices about our future.

As a child and godchild of historians and a lover of history myself,  I believe that every month is Black History Month and I revel in it 365 days a year, 366 in a leap year.

It's one of the missions of this blog to find and document the lost history of transpeople of African descent, and compile the current history being made so that our transkids growing up now and Black transpeople in general know that they have played major roles in shaping the 'T' part of the TBLG community and are expanding beyond that to impact the cis African American and cis communities as well.

We have some interesting stories to tell.    And I'll also bring some of those interesting nuggets of Black trans history to the forefront in addition to whatever Black history I feel moved to comment on for the next 28 days.