| No Images? Click here   What's happening...Happy Black History Month, fam! This February, we're celebrating and embracing the #BlackGlory within us. Black Voices Editor Taryn Finley wrote an essay explaining why it's crucial for us to recognize this: This month is dedicated to showcasing, exploring and exalting the beauty in blackness. Often times, society tries to focus on our battle scars, and its glare isn’t with the intention to heal. Navigating through a world that only halfway celebrates you for what you’ve endured ― and then tells you a watered-down version of that ― is taxing. All black lives are special, not because of the historical and cultural battles we’ve overcome and are still fighting today, but because we just simply are. Our story didn’t begin with trauma, and though it is a very real and important part of our history, it shouldn’t be the only thing we’re celebrated for. We should be celebrated for our skills, our dreams, our skin, our hair, our rhythm, our traditions, our love. We should be celebrated because there would be no American history without black history. Yes, our resilience is special, but it is not the sole source of our glory. To be black is glorious, period. And it’s about time the world acknowledges that.  In case you missed it..
 What's trending... Octavia Spencer announced Wednesday that she plans to buy out a screening of the highly anticipated Marvel film “Black Panther” in an underserved community in Mississippi. The star’s reason is crucial, simple yet often overlooked: representation matters.“I will be in [Mississippi] when this movie opens,” Spencer posted in a message on Instagram. “I think I will buy out a theatre in an underserved community there to ensure that all our brown children can see themselves as a superhero. I will let you know where and when Mississippi. Stay tuned.” Colin Kaepernick is a man of his word.On Wednesday, the former NFL quarterback announced that he’d fulfilled his pledge of donating $1 million of his salary to communities in need. He began the pledge in September 2016, one month after beginning his on-field protests against structural racism and police brutality.“With or without the NFL’s platform, I will continue to work for the people,” he said in December, while picking up the 2017 Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, “because my platform is the people.”
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