Celebrate Black history, believe in Black futures
February, 2024
February is Black History Month. It is a dedicated time for us as a society to reflect, learn and gain strength from the work of Black organizers, teachers and siblings. To remember the struggle for equity, justice and liberation for all Black people in the United States. We owe our movement ancestors and movement comrades the respect of reflection, the commitment to keep the light of justice burning bright.
The Movement For Black Lives celebrates February as “Black Futures Month”. They share:
“Each February, we take stock of the cumulative efforts undertaken by Black people to erect a liberatory future where we are self-determined and loved. Black Futures Month is a visionary, forward-looking spin on celebrations of Blackness in February; a time to consider and celebrate our radical Black history and to dream and imagine a world in which all Black people are free.
This Black Futures Month, we celebrate the Future of Black Love and exchange love notes that articulate manifestations of love beyond romance, binaries, and capitalism and into the ever-expansive realms of justice and liberation.
The late great scholar, author, and feminist bell hooks writes, “Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect, and trust.”
This February, join us in celebrating Black history, Black life, Black futures, and Black love.”
This February and every day of the year, JFMF stands firmly in our truth that Black liberation is liberation for all people. That there is no Migrant Justice without Black Justice, Racial Justice. Please support the work of the M4BL and our beloveds at Black Love Resists in the Rust today and everyday.
Hasta la victoria siempre,
JFMF
Written by Emily Terrana