This February we’ve been asking folks to share what Black History Month means to them, and how it relates to their family or their community. We’ll be sharing the messages throughout the month. This poem comes from Yama in New York:

History Life’s Greatness

Humanity is the story

Black History

Is a mystery

Miseries threat to society

The fear to white supremacy

One month to see me

From baby taught culturally

Boats and Seas

Chains…brains

Flesh for game

Resilient like fresh rain

From Civil Rights

To Black on Black fights

The cure

Treatment the same

Stating the N word

History a collection of time

A covered up crime

Waiting for life’s next line

For if you take poison

And promote it as life

And someone dies

It’s really death

The lie looking at the truth

And laughing hysterically