Happy Birthday:  Hank Aaron, baseball player/civil rights activist
Born Feb. 5, 1934

50 States, 100 Weeks: World’s Largest Peanut, Ashburn, GA

Music: Cheek to Cheek (Heaven) by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Poetry: Canary by Rita Dove
Billie Holiday’s burned voice
had as many shadows as lights,
a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,
the gardenia her signature under that ruined face.
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Holiday: Black History Month

Comic Book Artist Spotlight: Denys Cowan
Black Panther, Marvel Studios