"I love Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks because everything you see here is because of them, and they made freedom ...

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

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...

Feb. 1 marks the first day of Black History Month, and suddenly the study of the Black experience may feel like an act of ...

The Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center will feature “Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight” through May 3.

Groups celebrating Black History Month are including this year’s theme of African Americans and Labor as part of their ...

Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...