This is our national truth: America would not be America without the wealth from Black labor, without Black striving, Black ingenuity, Black resistance. So much of the music, the food, the language, the art, the scientific advances, the athletic renown, the fashion, the guarantees of civil rights, the oratory and intellectual inspiration that we export to the world, that draws the world to us, comes forth from Black Americans, from the people born on the water.
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Black History Month allows us all to gather around the kindling fire of mind-expanding inspiration and education. In this Black History Month Edition, the national focus is on the Black labor movement, which is quite comprehensive. Three-Fifths Magazine asks the question of how Black striving, Black ingenuity, and Black resistance helped to mold and shape the multiethnic America we now experience?
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