Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

February is Black History Month ... basis for learning American history be taught to every child in this country," Dr. Muhammad said. "And especially white children." Dr. Muhammed, a professor ...

Three graduate fellows at the University at Buffalo’s Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education have ...

Andy Robbins finds a $10 watercolor off the shelf at New Life Thrift. After some research, he discovers it's a rare William ...

Andrea M. O’Neal, a former White House official who helped drive federal policies and observances behind Black History Month under President Joe Biden, said observances allow for full ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a question about Black History Month during her first press briefing on Tuesday — and many found her answer quite unsettling. At the briefing, ...

Since then, presidents have made annual proclamations for National Black History Month, a tradition that President Donald Trump plans to continue, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline ...

White institutions and textbooks seemed to have little to no interest in including any Black history curriculums, he said, and he devoted much of his life to encouraging Black Americans to learn ...

A Midlands man has been capturing history through different set of lenses literally.Cecil Williams has been a photographer since he was ...

After a lifetime of dating white men, I hoped a new romance could offer a chance at love, and at embracing my own Blackness. In a special collaboration between Modern Love and Black History ...

Meet Walter White, the NAACP’s longtime leader and one of the most influential but least known figures in civil rights history. Under his leadership, the NAACP paved the way for Black power at ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump White House issued a proclamation Friday recognizing February as Black History Month around the same time the Defense Department issued guidance declaring “identity ...