There’s a little more than a week left in Black History Month 2025. Where did the time go? It doesn’t help that the U.S. observation is in a month with only 28 days. Why is Black History ...

In 1926, he pioneered the celebration of Negro History Week during the second week of February to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. It is important to ...

Initially only a week-long, Black History Month was created to ensure Black history would not be forgotten. Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian and founder of the Association for the Study of African ...

Schools across the nation continue to mark February as Black History Month, and Central Illinois colleges and universities ...

Woodson. In 1926, Woodson launched Negro History Week, and that commemoration was expanded to Black History Month in 1976. “This is the 99th year of ASALH, Carter G. Woodson’s group ...

Projects on the fight to give women the right to vote, the formation of baseball’s Negro National League and how a tragic ...