During BlackHistoryMonth, the third during a global pandemic, and at a time when history is questioned and Black Americans are erased, it’s worth noting the women and men who are historically and currently made invisible and why.
“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind.”, the third during a global pandemic, and at a time when history is questioned and Black Americans are erased, it’s worth noting the women and men who are historically and currently made invisible and why. first Black woman to appear on a U.S.
, and the late Sidney Poitier, a civil rights pioneer and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar—will deservedly be highlighted during this month, as will celebrities and media moguls such as Oprah Winfrey and politicians like the late John Lewis. However, those who often get forgotten in annual commemorations are the lesser-known and some may say invisible people who also deserve honor and remembrance—those who make up what Saidiya Hartman, in her 2019 book, Even the remarkable historic Black people often celebrated such as Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are only highlighted for certain aspects of their lives rather than as whole people.
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