Black History Month marks its 100th anniversary this year. Each year, the organization that launched the observance announces a national theme. This year’s theme, “A Century of Black History ...
This year, we celebrate the most significant milestone in our Nation’s history: 250 glorious years of American independence. From the very beginning, our country has been blessed with countless black ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King leading a Black voting rights march from Selma, Ala. to Montgomery William ...
Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926, created by historian Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson. The observance expanded from a week to a month in 1976 to celebrate the contributions of Black ...
One hundred years ago, Black History Month began as an act of correction. Historian Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week to preserve Black contributions from being erased from American ...