Felicia D. Henderson (Photo: HuffPost/Getty)

Black history needs to be celebrated all year long, but Black History Month is an apt time to give flowers to our giants whose talents and contributions often go overlooked. Especially as we have lost so many icons this year already, including Mary Wilson, Eric Jerome Dickey, Hank Aaron and Cicely Tyson, the need to give our heroes flowers while they’re still able to smell them becomes even more apparent.