Black History Month (Feb 1, 2025)

We’re stepping into Black History Month, and for me, this isn’t just another February. It’s a moment to reset, to reflect, and to ask the real questions: What are we doing with this history? How are we moving forward?

I don’t do performative. I don’t do empty celebrations. And if I’m being real, a lot of what Black History Month has become feels like a remix of the same old tributes, the same old slogans, the same old feel-good moments that don’t actually push us forward.

But we are history in the making.

And if we’re not careful, we’ll keep getting caught up in the look of honoring the past instead of actually building toward the future.

What Black History Month Means to Me Right Now

This year feels different. I feel different.

I’m at a place where I want to challenge how we engage with our own history. Not just celebrating the icons we already know but wrestling with the complexity of their legacies. Not just romanticizing our struggles but asking ourselves:

• What are we still holding onto that’s no longer serving us?

• How do we honor the past without getting stuck in it?

• How do we make Black history about our future, not just our memories?

  
  

Because if we keep telling the same stories the same way, we risk locking ourselves into narratives that don’t allow for growth.

We are more than resistance. We are more than struggle. We are builders, innovators, futurists.

And right now, at this very moment, we are writing new history. The question is, what story do we want to tell?

KenShip, Legacy & Moving With Intention

For me, this moment isn’t just about looking back—it’s about how KenShip shows up in the present. How we show up.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to reclaim, restore, and reimagine. And if this month is about anything, it’s about intention.

• Intention in our conversations – Are we just talking, or are we transforming?

• Intention in our platforms – Are we just consuming, or are we creating?

• Intention in our communities – Are we just existing, or are we building?

  
  

Black History Month is not just a celebration; it’s a checkpoint. A moment to ask, what comes next?

So, how are we showing up this year? What’s different? What’s evolving? And how are we making sure that when people look back at this time, they see us as the architects of something greater?

I’m feeling it. I’m stepping into it. And I hope you are too.

Let’s make this Black History Month about our power, our evolution, and our future.