First of all - a reminder I need your favorite movie clips from movies featuring the Black experience or Black history, to share on the event on the 20th. Looking forward to this fun event, and a chance to share some entertainment and learning.

This week I'm back on Japanese for a bit. Kaizen, if you want to get technical about it, mostly refers to a business philosophy but I'm using it to suit my own purposes here: it means continuous improvement. 
 

February is observed as Black History Month. Carter G. Woodson of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASALH), created Negro History Week in February 1926, and Congress passed “National Black History Month” into law in 1986, to encourage all people to understand the black experience and their struggle for freedom.