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Tumblr! Black History Month is here, and we have some stuff in store to celebrate and honor the achievements of the Black community past and present. There are Answer Times to celebrate Black voices in entertainment and modern civil rights, weekly themed round-up posts to showcase Black excellence found everywhere, video interviews with celebrities and activists, a special Black History Month explore page updated daily with the best BHM posts from all of you, and custom stickers based on the top tags surrounding Black culture on Tumblr in 2016. Take a peek:

Here’s a look at our scheduled Answer Times:

2/6—The activists behind the Blackout movement (@theblackoutofficial).

2/7—Fashion designer Jerome Lamaar (@531jerome).

2/8—Emil Wilbekin (@worldofwilbekin), fashion journalist and LGBTQ rights activist.

2/16—The cast of VH1′s (@vh1) The Breaks.

2/21—Angelica Ross (@missrosscreative), transgender rights advocate.

2/22—Actress Amandla Stenberg (@amandla)

2/23—Comedian and actor Andrew Bachelor, better known as King Bach (@kingbach).

2/24—Washington Post (@washingtonpost) editorial board member and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart.

2/27—Christian hip-hop artist Lecrae.

2/28—Black-ish actor Anthony Anderson.

And the video interviews will launch on Action (@action):

2/1—Octavia Spencer, co-star of Hidden Figures (@hiddenfiguresmovie).

2/6—The people behind Blackout (@theblackoutofficial).

2/13—Heben and Tracy (@brokeymcpoverty) from the Buzzfeed (@buzzfeed) podcast, Another Round.

We’ll be rolling this stuff out all over the place on Tumblr, but the Black History Month explore page is live right now. It’s filled with stuff made by all of you, and it’s already pretty great on day one. Happy Black History Month, Tumblr.

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Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus for home. She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for “colored” passengers. But Montgomery bus drivers had adopted the custom of requiring black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers, when no other seats were available. When her bus was full, the driver asked four black passengers to give up their seats. Three complied, but Rosa refused and remained seated. Her refusal to surrender her seat spurred on a citywide boycott and helped launch nationwide efforts to end segregation of public facilities. In 1987, Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. The organization runs “Pathways to Freedom” bus tours, introducing young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country. She also published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography recounting her life in the segregated South, and Quiet Strength which includes her memoirs and focuses on the role that religious faith played throughout her life.