Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past 50 years, every February has been honored as Black History Month, an annual observance that recognizes the ...

In February 1926, the eminent Black scholar Carter G. Woodson called on communities across the United States to observe a weeklong celebration of Black history. Woodson urged members of the public to ...

The seeds of Black History Month were sown more than 100 years ago in the South Side YMCA at 3763 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the ...

Who Was Carter G. Woodson? Known as the “Father of Black History,” Carter G. Woodson dedicated his career to the field of African American history and lobbied extensively to establish Black History ...

Throughout his career, historian Carter G. Woodson, AB’1908, AM’1908, worked to change how Americans thought about Black history. The University of Chicago alum began that mission when, in February ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas of American history. That has long proved a challenge to historians of the Black experience. Carter G.

A hundred years ago this month, DC resident Carter G. Woodson held an event that launched a mass education movement: Negro History Week. In a pamphlet created to promote the idea, the historian and ...

Brennan Nevada Johnson runs a PR and media agency that represents Black and minority-owned tech companies and startups. She’s also a descendant of Black History Month founder Carter G. Woodson and has ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...