Black Americans. What began in 1926 has grown into an overall cultural observance of Black History in February ...

( NEXSTAR) – Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At ...

Despite its official government recognition in 1975, scholars say Black History Month started decades earlier with the work ...

HUNTINGTON — Negro History Week was born out of the education of Black History, something that wasn’t commonly taught in the 1920s. Now, almost 100 years later, the legacy and teachings of Dr. Carter ...

Celebrate Black History Month around Oklahoma City with free workshops, powerful history talks, family-friendly activities ...

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is known by many as the “Father of Black History.” Tired of having Black people left out of the American story, he created the first Negro History Week in ...

Scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. In the 99 years that have passed since that first official ...

In 2024, Major League Baseball officially incorporated the statistics of players from the segregated Negro Leagues into its record books in an effort to formally integrate some of the game’s greatest ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Printed handbill advertising Negro History Week programming at the Freedom House in Boston. The flier is on beige ...

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