Black History Month was made an official holiday by President Gerald Ford in 1976. Find out who started it, why it is ...

By the 1920s, “race films,” movies starring largely Black casts, marketed to Black audiences and often produced by ...

Black History Month is celebrated each February in the United States and Canada. Each nation’s history is filled with notable contributions from black individuals, many of whom overcame incredible ...

Relying on constructive input from six other educators across the country, I drafted and refined a thinking routine that I ...

Historical exhibits, performances, culinary explorations, film screenings and more events that honor Black History Month in the Lower Hudson Valley.

Back in the 1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) developed Freedom Schools to teach reading, writing, math, civics and history to African Americans whose self-determination was ...

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...

Team Duval integrates local African American history into their curriculum year-round, not just during Black History Month.

Also, Black History Month tends to be observed to focus on great men and women of history, or a time for emphasizing ...

From Freedmen's Town to Emancipation Park, visit African American landmarks that trace Houston's Black history and culture.

Before marble meant minimalism and stone became a staple of modern luxury, these materials shaped the rhythms of daily life ...