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WASHINGTON — Author and activist Maya Angelou hopes for a time when Black History Month will
no longer be needed to explain the contributions of African-Americans. “We want to reach a time
when there won't be Black History Month, when black history ...
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BLACK HISTORY
POSTED BYO EIZ N THURSDAY, 19 JANUARY, 2012, 7:14 AM
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WASHINGTON — Author and activist Maya
Angelou hopes for a time when Black
History Month will no longer be needed to
e x p l a i n t h e c o n t r i b u t i o n s o f A f r i c a n-
Americans.
“We want to reach a time when there won’t
be Black History Month, when black history will be so integrated into American history that we study
it along with every other history,” she said in an interview from her home in Winston-Salem, N.C.,
on Wednesday. “That’s the hope, and we have to continue to work until that is true, until that
becomes a fact.”
(Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press) - FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012, file photo, Maya Angelou
speaks after receiving the Literary Arts Award during the BET Honors at the Warner Theatre in
Washington. Angelou hopes for a time when Black History Month will no longer be needed to
explain the contributions of African-Americans in America. “We want to reach a time when there
won’t be Black History Month, when black history will be so integrated into American history that we
study it along with every other history,” she said in an interview from her home in Winston-Salem,
N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012.
Angelou is hosting an hour-long syndicated radio special on the civil rights era that will air
throughout this month on about 200 public radio stations across the country. Her special features
Grammy award-winning singer Mary J. Blige, Democratic Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, former U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young, economist and Bennett College President Julianne Malveaux, and
professor Nikky Finney, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.
“Our work still remains and we have to do the best we can do,” she said. “The young people have a
charge to keep, they have responsibility and some don’t know that, or maybe some have heard it
but don’t recognize it.”