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It’s that tender mid-February energy—Black History Month reflections, mysterious skies, halftime lore, and a little homework for the heart. Let’s get into this week's...

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​Algo bien for a fun Friday.

Edition: February 13th, 2026​

Picture 📸 • Optimism💖 • Cool Find 🕵🏽‍♂️ • Homework 📝 • Other Stuff 📢

PICTURE: 📸

This week’s sky felt cinematic. ☁️✈️ I took a picture of an odd-looking military plane moving so slowly it almost seemed suspended in the clouds; mysterious, quiet, almost unreal. But even with something unfamiliar overhead, the clouds were still bright. A reminder that hope can share the same sky as uncertainty.

OPTIMISM: 💖

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

— Langston Hughes, Black poet and writer (from the poem Dreams, 1922)

COOL FIND: 🕵🏽‍♂️

🕵🏽‍♂️🏈✨Black History Month–timed and perfect for anyone still on cloud nine after that halftime show: this reel from @Pasport Louis a Black creator breaks down a wild (and very cool) origin story: how the modern Super Bowl halftime show exists largely because Keenen Ivory Wayans and In Living Color pulled off a “counter-programming” Super Halftime Show in the early ’90s that siphoned off 20 million viewers during the break. The NFL took the hint, and the next year booked Michael Jackson and the rest is halftime history. Flowers to the Wayans family, for real. 👉 See more of In Living Color's legacy.

HOMEWORK: 📝

Learn One Black History Fact: Take 5 minutes this week to learn one Black history fact you didn’t grow up hearing. Maybe it’s about the Black Panthers’ free breakfast programs, the role of Afro-Latinos in civil rights movements, or how hip-hop became a global language of resistance. Curiosity is a form of respect—go discover something new. ✊🏾📚

OTHER STUFF: 📢

✊🏾📚 Black History Month isn’t one story. It’s many. This week, I’m linking to @Fernando.Deveras, a Latino creator who reminds us that if you learned about Martin Luther King Jr. but not Huey P. Newton, if you heard of Rosa Parks but not Angela Davis or Assata Shakur, there’s a reason for that.

History gets edited. Textbooks get selective. Some voices are celebrated while others are labeled “too dangerous” or “too uncomfortable.”

The invitation here isn’t outrage—it’s curiosity. Ask why certain stories were centered and others sidelined. Then go learn what you weren’t taught. Solidarity means doing the homework. 👉 Watch the reel and start there.

Wherever you’re reading this from under bright clouds or beneath uncertain ones, I hope you hold fast to your dreams and stay curious about the stories that shaped us. Same time next Friday. 💛

Yours,

Tony U

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-your favorite pocho + multicultural marketer.

PS Happy valentimes day, Lunar New Year, and looong weekend!