Our columnist talks with one of Black History Month’s modern-day keepers about the work it takes to remember the past – and ...

The historian promoted Negro History Week as part of efforts to embed Black studies into the American education system.

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is remembered as the “Father of Black History.” Read about his education, books, idea ...

Black history doesn’t have nearly the amount of documentation and sources as many other areas ... to historians of the Black experience. Carter G. Woodson worked to change that.

As a child, Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate parents, endured the backbreaking labor of a ...

Wabash Ave., Chicago. Carter G. Woodson, a University of Chicago alum, was staying in a room at the Colored YMCA, as it was designated, while manning a booth at the Exposition of Fifty Years of ...

Black History Month wasn't always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration that was an effort to ...

This undated photo provided by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) shows historian and author Carter G. Woodson. (ASALH via AP)Association for the Study of ...

Schools, museums and communities across the nation are marking Black History Month — a celebration of Black history, culture and education. The history of the month dates back almost a century ...