{"id":1968,"date":"2021-02-10T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/its-black-history-month-but-do-black-families-feel-like-celebrating\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:35:12","slug":"do-black-families-feel-like-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/do-black-families-feel-like-celebrating\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Black History Month, but do Black families feel like celebrating?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3404-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3404-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"It\u2019s Black History Month, but do Black families feel like celebrating?\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Black families have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: iStock.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=social-impact\">Social Impact<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>It\u2019s Black History Month, but do Black families feel like celebrating?<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Pastor and community leader Najuma Smith-Pollard, program manager at USC Dornsife\u2019s Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, knows firsthand how Black families are suffering. The pandemic is just part of it. <strong>[3 min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a href=\"mailto:communication@dornsife.usc.edu\">Jenesse Miller<\/a><\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">February 10, 2021<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" 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Najuma Smith-Pollard combines her experience as a pastor and a community leader to run training programs for pastors doing civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to running the center at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Smith-Pollard is also a motivational speaker, author, life coach, radio personality and community activist.<\/p>\n<p>She answered questions on how it feels to celebrate Black History Month during a difficult time for many Black families and communities.<\/p>\n<h2>Is this year\u2019s national <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/3394\/black-history-month-the-role-of-the-black-family\/\">theme of Black History Month<\/a>, the Black family, fitting?<\/h2>\n<p>I think everything, including Black History Month, must be viewed through the lens of this multilayered pandemic. The other layers include the racial injustices we face and the political climate from the White House on down. The Black family is feeling the weight of the pandemic. And while we are moving into Black History Month, it has been an historic Black year. I say that in the context of all that Black families have contended with and continue to contend with. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 The reality is, many Black folks don\u2019t want a Black History Month. Right now, Black folks want to get paid. They want jobs. They want their kids to have an equitable education. They want their brothers and sisters, uncles and fathers to stop being killed by the police and traumatized by the police. And while we know that no department is responsible for another, we saw police let rioters into the U.S. Capitol with no degree of tension. As a Black person watching that, it\u2019s an affront, an insult to my Blackness.<\/p>\n<p>We have to highlight the names and faces of so many Black people who have made this country great, but it\u2019s a cheap consolation prize for all that Black families are enduring, not to mention the suspended grief.<\/p>\n<h2>As a pastor, you\u2019re personally seeing how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately harmed Black families. Is that what you mean by suspended grief?<\/h2>\n<p>As a pastor my role is to be engaged in all parts of life, including funerals. Two or three times a week, Black families hear about family members and friends dying of COVID-19 because Black and Latino families are the hardest hit. You might get news about one on Monday, but you can\u2019t even grieve that because by Wednesday or Thursday somebody else has died. Black families are experiencing suspended grief that they can\u2019t actually process because there are too many deaths in between.<\/p>\n<p>And at the same time, Black families are still finding ways to be hopeful. We will look to Black History Month to give us those reminders of hope. We look at young ladies and men who are doing amazing things and see the resiliency of Black families. We will look to the narratives and the stories of our ancestors, and the trailblazers and the legend makers, and we will find hope and then we will create some new stories.<\/p>\n<h2>If you had to have a call to action for this month, what would it be?<\/h2>\n<p>What\u2019s coming up in my mind is \u201cbelieve Black families.\u201d If they tell you they need money to come from the government, believe them. Or when Black families tell you it\u2019s hard \u2014 it\u2019s not a hoax. Believe when they tell you we have a reason to be concerned about police. If I believe that you\u2019re really hurting, that\u2019s the human expectation. It starts with belief. So, I would say, believe Black families when they tell you their stories and their challenges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usc.edu\/181386\/black-history-month-families-suffering-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>See USC News for more from Smith-Pollard &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor and community leader Najuma Smith-Pollard, program manager at USC Dornsife\u2019s Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement, knows firsthand how Black families are suffering. 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