Often called the "Father of Black History," Virginia native and scholar Carter G. Woodson started Negro History Week in ...

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Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

He chose February because the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were celebrated this month. Lincoln’s birthday was Feb. 12, and Douglass, born a slave, didn’t ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile ... groundwork for what would eventually become Black History Month, first celebrated at Kent State University. Woodson established what ...

Some said Trump’s Black History Month celebration and his outreach to Black ... James appeared with Trump several times in Michigan, a state the Republican flipped in November.

the effort to make it a monthlong celebration sprung from the Black Power movement on college campuses in the 1960s. In 1970, the first observance of Black History Month took place at Kent State ...

After originating in the United States, the celebration is ... Kingdom and Ireland, Black History Month goes through October. Black educators and students at Kent State University in Portage ...

For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in ...

The event grew into Black History Month in 1970 under the black leadership of Kent State University and was ... on the key points at the root of the celebration like culture, entrepreneurship ...