Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the ...

After founding the Journal, Woodson decided to go further and start “Negro History Week” in 1926. He timed this for the second week in February, to coincide with the birthdays of both Frederick ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Etta Willson, Linneall Naylor, Rondia Prescott and Jenee Lindner – four of the authors of the book, “Black Communities of ...

During the Black History celebration at Woodson High, two students shared their thoughts about its importance with the ...

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for ...

Founded by Carter G. Woodson in 1976, Black History Month is a month-long celebration in February that aims to spread pride ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, the first and only African American cardinal and retiring archbishop of Washington, D.C., ...

“If race has no history ... in danger of being exterminated.” Carter G. Woodson, “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” 1933 Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian who considered Black ...

Why is Black History Month celebrated in the shortest month ... which began in 1926, a creation of Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History he founded with ...