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

Learn more about Black History Month's origin and significance ... It began as Negro History Week in 1926, inspired by a 1915 celebration of emancipation in Chicago. Woodson established this ...

This Black History Month, John Yang explores the origins of DEI in America for our… The story of Granny Hayden, a Black midwife who was born into slavery Mary Stepp Burnette Hayden was born into ...

What initially started as a week-long event nearly a century ago, became a month-long celebration in 1976, when President Gerald Ford decreed Black History Month as an official observation.

According to the Zinn Education Project, Carter G. Woodson — the creator of Black History Week, which became Black History Month — “believed that Black history was too important to America and the ...

Despite 2025 Oscars snubs, let's take a look at Black, history-making moments at the Academy Awards over the years. On Feb. 21, 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed in front of his pregnant wife ...

Celebrate Black History Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcasts. The 2025 theme is "African Americans and Labor" with a focus on the various and profound ways that work of ...