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Julie Bolejack, MBA
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Black History Month: Day 7 The Work Is Ongoing
Some days, history doesn’t knock. It barges in, muddy boots and all, and sits at your kitchen table like it owns the place. I’ve lived long enough to know the feeling. The quiet dread that tells you something has shifted again, not suddenly, but unmistakably. Black History Month
Black History Day 6: Criminalization as Control
Black History Fact: After Reconstruction, Southern states used “Black Codes” to criminalize everyday behavior, forcing Black men into prison labor that closely resembled slavery. Mass incarceration did not emerge spontaneously. Black history shows us that criminalization has long been used to maintain racial control when other methods became politically inconvenient.
Black History Month Day 5: The Myth of Equal Opportunity
Some truths sit quietly in the background of our national story, shaping lives without ever being spoken aloud. They show up in neighborhoods that look very different from one another, in retirement accounts that grow for some families but not others, in opportunities that appear effortless for one generation and
Black History Month Day 4: Education Is a Battleground
Black History Fact: In many Southern states, it was illegal for enslaved people to learn to read. Punishments included beatings, imprisonment, and death. Ignorance has always been enforced. Black history makes clear that education threatens oppression because it reveals alternatives. It teaches people to imagine themselves differently—and systems depend