Black History Month is an entire month devoted to putting a spotlight on African Americans who have made contributions to our country. Originally, it was seen as a way of teaching students and ...

Black History Month starts this weekend, but its origins are more than 100 years old. Here's why it's always celebrated in February.

Black History Month has become one of the most celebrated cultural heritage months on the calendar, said LaGarrett J. King, an associate professor of social studies education at the University of ...

Black educators and students at Kent State University in Portage County, Ohio, proposed the idea of Black History Month in 1969, and first celebrated it in 1970.

The Netherlands. Drawing on inspiration from Black History month in the United States and Canada, Dutch artistic director and former politician John Leerdam started Black Achievement Month or BAM ...

Black History Month has been around since 1926, when it was called Negro History Week. Many more things have changed between now and then about the way we celebrate and why. Woodson's idea ...

But the problems with Black History Month are real, Tilghman says. Black history is more than a month. It's more than just the sanitized story of the same handful of heroes told over and over.

For many people, Black History Month was the one month where the history of Black Americans was talked about each day in school. We wrote papers on Martin Luther King Jr., heard the story of Rosa ...