12 Days of Black History: Why These Stories Matter
I posted this around the time when I began this campaign and somehow in the midst of updating my page to its correct settings it got deleted So here it is again.
Black history is often taught in fragments.
A date. A name. A moment of suffering or triumph, removed from the people who lived it.
This series was created to do something different.
12 Days of Black History is a body of work that honors Black history as lived experience—across generations, across ages, and across the inner lives of our people. It is not a countdown or a celebration for celebration’s sake. It is an invitation to remember with care.
Since launching this publishing company, my work has been guided by one question:
What stories do our children deserve to inherit?
Too often, the history we are given is shaped by what others have decided is acceptable to remember. Even now, there are ongoing efforts to erase, restrict, or rewrite Black history altogether. This series exists in response to that reality.
We have seen this before.
And this time, we will not let it happen quietly.
Why This Series Begins with History
The first books in this series center history and memory. They name events that are often avoided or softened, while still honoring the humanity of the people involved.
These stories remind us that Black history is not abstract. It happened in communities. It happened in homes. It happened to children.
History does not need to be graphic to be honest.
It does not need to harm in order to teach.
Truth can be told with care.
Understanding, Identity, and Becoming
After history is named, space must be made for understanding.
Several books in this series are written for children and young readers, offering language for fairness, equity, and reflection without assigning guilt or demanding performance. These stories are not about winning arguments. They are about learning how to sit with truth and what it asks of us.
From there, the series turns toward identity and becoming.
Black girlhood and Black boyhood are centered not as problems to solve, but as experiences already worthy, already complete. These books affirm curiosity, softness, strength, and imagination. They remind our children that they do not need to earn dignity. They already possess it.
Interior Life, Systems, and Endurance
The final books in the series move inward.
They honor the interior lives of Black women. They name the systems that quietly shaped womanhood through policy and control. And they close with a simple truth: we are still here.
Survival is not the only story.
Presence is not an accident.
Endurance does not always look loud.
Ending this series with reflection and presence is intentional. Black history is not only what was endured or resisted. It is also what was held, passed down, protected, and imagined forward.
What This Series Hopes to Offer
This series exists to ensure that our rising generations know:
They come from excellence
They come from lineage and care
They come from people who imagined a future, even when the present was hostile
What we wished for as a people must be passed forward, so our children and our children’s children know who they are.
That is the work.
That is the responsibility.
That is the hope.
12 Days of Black History runs from February 12–24, 2026, with one book shared each day across our platforms.
Thank you for reading.
Thank you for remembering with us.
And thank you for continuing to make space for the stories that matter.