I’ve realized more often of late that it’s not so much what I have to say that matters,

That I don’t need to come up with good ideas, insights, inspiration,

And that maybe it’s actually even more important to simply elevate the voices that need to be heard,

And to listen, really listen.

So let this month — Black History Month — be about that from my little corner of the ether; let that be the goal this month for this blog:

ELEVATE THE VOICES THAT NEED TO BE HEARD.

Let’s see what we can find and learn, together, from people living now and from the past like,

1. Andre Leon Talley
2. Amanda Gorman
3. Al Sharpton
4. Tyra Banks
5. Sam Sanders, Zach Stafford, Saeed Jones
6. Colin Kaepernick
7. Steve Kerr & Jon Stewart
8. Fredrick Douglass
9. Whoopi Goldberg
10. Jesse Jackson
11. Jim Brown
12. Billie Holiday
13. Malcom X
14. Clerow “Flip” Wilson
15. Lena Horne
16. Mahershala Ali
17. Naomi Campbell
18. John Lewis
19. Sidney Poitier
20. Desmond Tutu
21. Fritz Pollard
22. Alexander Hamilton
23. Martin Luther King Jr.
24. Jackie Robinson
25. Halle Berry
26. Danny Glover
27. Mohammad Ali
28. …and maybe others to add to this list…what say you?