What's your favorite?

I hope this finds you well - healthy, hopeful, and energized to keep going with your efforts to change the world starting from where you are.

As part of that process, would you share your favorite, most-influential sources for growth and personal change related to racial justice and Black culture?

We've begun another Black history month here in the United States. Originally a week (1926) and later a month (1986) and yet we see the daily examples of how far we have yet to go toward true racial equity and justice.

Personally, I value the symbolism even though these events won't immediately change the big picture. They are opportunities to spur additional learning, conversation, and action. They create new programs in the media and revisit important history.

They remind us to look closer, at ourselves and the world we wish to improve.

We have amazing people here who care deeply and continue to seek next steps forward. So, today, I wanted to ask you what are one or two of your favorite, most impactful experiences of growth? Share them with someone else who hasn't read, tried, experienced, acted on that idea—you never know who might benefit.

I'll start you off with a couple of my past and present favorites:

Book: Stay Woke: Meditation for the Rest of Us by Justin Michael Williams. (Next on my list is Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, which I have heard from trusted sources is excellent!)

Daily emails: 28daysofblackhistory.com (for February) and antiracismdaily.com (ongoing) by Nicole Cardoza

Experiences: National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN

You matter. You can make a difference. I'm so thankful you're here.