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

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

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 ...

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

By the 1920s, “race films,” movies starring largely Black casts, marketed to Black audiences and often produced by white-owned companies, were arising outside of Hollywood. Among these companies was ...

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

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 ...

The month of February should not be the end of the learning process for the year, but rather the beginning of a school year ...

Even though the Olympics are said to connect the global village, the Winter Games remain a distant story for Africa, a continent where snow and ice are hard to find. Winter sports face high barriers ...