“Every time this month comes around, [the feeling] is empowering yet bittersweet,” Mereba tells Billboard. “Growing up, there were times and certain environments where I was one of the only Black children there to represent my people as a whole.”
“It felt like February came and all heads turned toward me; [it was] a time for my culture to be ‘celebrated,’ but only one time,” she continues. “Once February was over, we were back to learning white history as the standard for what all other histories were born from. It took so much energy to unlearn.”….(read more here)