Black American is an Ethnicity. A Triumph Story.

Brittany Talissa King
2 min readFeb 20, 2022

Black History Month doesn’t memorialize race. It honors the impossible that transpired despite it. [published in The Republic newspaper]

As Black History Month commemorates, the question, “Why Should We Celebrate Black History Month?” seems less and less rhetorical as our cultural conversations become more divided. Currently, there’s a public debate on whether this holiday is…

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Brittany Talissa King

Writer and journalist. I explore race and social issues through history and pop-culture. @b.talissa IG. @KingTalissa Twitter. Journalism MA — NYU.