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Whose Name Should We Remember? (Black History Month) [1]
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Date: 2025-02-28
Whose Name Should We Remember?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shirley Chisholm
Malcolm X
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglass
Halle Berry and Sydney Poitier
Rochester and Hattie McDaniel
Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson
Michael Jackson and Jimi Hendrix
Oprah
George Washington Carver
Arthur Ashe and Tommie Smith
Rodney King and George Floyd
Barack and Michelle Obama
Jesse Jackson and John Lewis
Tyler Perry and Richard Pryor
Beyonce and Eartha Kitt
Sammy Davis, Jr and Thurgood Marshall
Josephine Baker and Kamala Harris
Serena and Venus Williams
Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole
Lincoln "Stepin Fetchit" Perry
Mr. Bojangles – Bill Robinson
Octavia Butler and Maya Angelou
Alex Haley and Langston Hughes
Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway,
Ray Charles...
..And I could go on, conjuring names,
to fill a book
and still leave too many out.
Help me Dear Readers –
search your own memories
and experiences
and add the names
that reside and resonate
within you.
Recall, too, the unnamed
slaves and freed
mothers and fathers,
workers and thinkers,
the murdered, the getting by's,
the risers in success –
All the many lives lived
building the matrix
of history,
one individual
joy and sorrow
after another –
How they fascinate me!
And last – though not least,
add your own names here
Dear Readers,
so that I may remember
you
in the fullness
of eternity –
the stories
of your lives.
©2025 Carl Scott Harker
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You can find more Black History Month poems here: Black History Month Poem: Always Running Towards (Harriet Tubman), George Washington Carver, Scientist Agriculture and Biochemistry, Harlem Renaissance, Run Faster, Jump Further (Jesse Owens) and They Will Always Fail To Stop Progress.
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