Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

Initially only a week-long, Black History Month was created to ensure Black history would not be forgotten. Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian and founder of the Association for the Study of African ...

There’s a little more than a week left in Black History Month 2025. Where did the time go? It doesn’t help that the U.S. observation is in a month with only 28 days. Why is Black History ...

Many of us want to get our minds back. Because our minds have been basically controlled externally now we want to make that control ours and that's what we're about. *** proclamation of self ...

Scheduled to coincide with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. In the 99 years that have passed since that first ...

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 ...