"I've been feeling very, very optimistic lately,” Tyler Mitchell says. “These aren't the best times we've ever had, but they certainly aren't the worst either.” Mitchell made history in 2018 as the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of Vogue. In creating an exclusive Apple Music playlist for Black History Month 2019, he sums up his inspiration: “America hasn't been this creative or artistic since the '80s or the '60s. Black American music is the shit. We know this. Just sit back and enjoy."