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 ...

Related: Black History Month Themes Through the Years (1928-2025) 1. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, known as the "Father of Black ...

Shaundel Washington-Spivey kicked off the month by making history as the first Black person and first openly queer person ...

This Black History Month, John Yang explores the origins of DEI in America for our… The story of Granny Hayden, a Black midwife who was born into slavery Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into ...

While the White House has issued its position, agencies of the government have discretion on whether to continue to recognize Black History Month, according to the official. On Feb. 1, the first ...

Despite 2025 Oscars snubs, let's take a look at Black, history-making moments at the Academy Awards over the years. On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed in front of his pregnant wife ...

‘This is current history’: St. Augustine Beach issues its first-ever Black History Month proclamation In a historic moment for St. Augustine Beach, the city officially proclaimed February 2025 ...

Black History Month is held in February to celebrate the numerous achievements accomplished by the black community, and to honor the unique challenges black people have faced both historically and in ...

which traumatized children as young as 5 for more than a century Women Who Shaped History Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in ...