In a 2015 essay entitled, “Knowing the Past Opens the Door to the Future: The Continuing Importance of Black History Month,” Lonnie Bunch, then Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and now 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, noted that “reemphasizing Black History month continues to serve us well.” In his words, “experiencing Black History Month every year reminds us that history is not dead or distant from our lives.” The reemphasizing may seem rudimentary and plain, for some. The some, as of late, includes groups whose definition of history, depending which U.S. state one lives in, remains a mitigated check point due to feeling threatened by its resolute witness and unwavering veracity. I can only hope one is offered the meaningful existential import and conveyance Bunch leads us to consider, especially of its implications for our day’s vexed and uncanny time. I was moved with Bunch’s concluding remark, “…it helps us to remember there is no more powerful force than a people steeped in their history. And there is no higher cause than honoring our struggle and ancestors by remembering.” We honor our Black/African-American sisters and brothers. Let this month be a clarion call to remember.