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Black History Month 2021: A Postscript

Black History Month 2021: A Postscript
In case you missed any of the shoutouts to the designers, artists, publishers, and content creators featured on BGG during Black History Month in February 2021, you can find links to all of the posts in this meta-list created by BGG admin Matthew M, a.k.a. Octavian.

My thanks to Matthew for taking the initiative on this project, pulling together the initial list of candidates, and creating a schedule framework. Thanks also to Elizabeth Hargrave for her "Black Voices in Board Games" post and to BGG user hexahedron for their "Black board game and RPG designers and artists" GeekList, both of which proved valuable as a research starting point.

I've seen a number of requests for similar coverage during Women's History Month — which starts today, March 1 — and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, but I need to take my foot off the pedal and not burn out. Before running Boardgame News on my own, then joining BGG, I worked full-time as a freelance writer, mostly for trade publications. I probably wrote 1-2 profiles a week during those years, possibly even three profiles some weeks, but never a daily profile for four weeks straight...

That said, BGG will have creator spotlights of female designers, artists, publishers, and content creators on its front page each day in March. What's more, I intend to make more of an effort to feature games from underrepresented individuals in this space and elsewhere on BGG, as with the feature image for the March-April 2021 New Game Releases catalog that's now live on the front page:

From gallery of W Eric Martin

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