This month we are celebrating Black History Month. In the Yale Physics Department, we recognize Edward Bouchet, the first black person to earn a Ph.D. from an American university (Yale 1876), as well as our current faculty and alumni who were recently named as inspiring Black scientists in America: O. Keith Baker, professor of physics; Larry Gladney, professor of physics and the Phyllis Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Michael Murrell, associate professor of biomedical engineering and physics; Charles D. Brown II, postdoctoral research associate in quantum optomechanics at the University of California, Berkeley (Yale Ph.D. 2019); and Brooke Russell, Owen Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow in experimental particle physics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Yale Ph.D. 2020).