Memory as Infrastructure: Why Black History Must Be Built to Endure (Black History Month 2026 Series – Concluding Article)

Black history has never endured because it was convenient to remember. It has endured because it was deliberately constructed. Across a century marked by distortion, exclusion, and selective narration, remembrance did not survive through sentiment or seasonal goodwill, but through organised effort. Scholars built archives where none existed, activists forged institutions under surveillance, artists carried […]