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The Sun Staff
One month is not enough time to celebrate Black history. Nor should the wonder of Black culture be confined to just one month. Twelve months seems more like it. Thirteen would be better still.
With that in mind, the staff of the Southwestern College – abound with good intentions – may have launched a project too big for even our hard-working team. Inspired by a Black History Month message from college president Dr. Mark Sanchez that urged us to celebrate America’s enormous legacy of Black artists, journalism students and a small group of supporters were invited to write short essays about their favorite Black artist. We collected a raft of enthusiastic essays as well as a list of names of Black artists students and college employees said they admired.
We generated an impressive collection of remarkable writers, performing artists and visual artists, but we soon realized that legions of gifted Black artists were inevitably going to be left out. That is regrettable, but perhaps that was Dr. Sanchez’s point – that the contributions of Black artists on America’s remarkable culture is vast to the point of unmeasurable.
