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Black History Month

  • SOURCE: New York Daily News
    2/10/2022

    It's Black History Month. We Need to Talk About It

    by Jeremy C. Young

    The honest teaching of American history is under attack across the United States, undermining the goal of Carter G. Woodson, who linked the teaching of Black history to the advancement of multiracial democracy. 

  • SOURCE: CNN
    2/2/2022

    Black History Month Reveals the Deception Behind White "Discomfort"

    by Peniel E. Joseph

    "The erroneous narrative that teaching Black history provokes anxiety, discomfort, guilt or anger for White children has insidious roots" in a false consensus that has long suppressed the stories of Americans of color and denied racial oppression.

  • SOURCE: NPR
    1/1/2022

    Black History Month Celebrates Medicine and Health

    Marvin Dulaney, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) says that the racial health disparities highlighted by the pandemic make this year's focus on medical pioneers and health advocates particularly appropriate. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    2/19/2021

    Five Myths About Black History

    by Keisha N. Blain

    From slavery to emancipation, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, Brown v. Board of Education, and Black Power, widespread partial knowledge of Black history shows that school curricula need to do more to connect the history of Black Americans to the nation's history. 

  • SOURCE: The Atlantic
    2/10/2021

    A Forgotten Black Founding Father

    by Danielle Allen

    The figure of Black abolitionist Prince Hall has been discussed for his advocacy for abolition in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but there remains a deeper work of historical reconstruction to understand his connections to family, community and civil society in the founding era. 

  • SOURCE: Medium
    2/16/2021

    Why Fred Hampton Needs to Be on Your Kids’ American History Syllabus

    Writer and poet Scott Woods developed a political consciousness watching a 1971 documentary on the assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton. He was prepared to be disappointed by the new "Judas and the Black Messiah" but argues the film tells a story that is more important than ever.

  • SOURCE: ABC News
    2/8/20

    Carter G. Woodson and the History of Black History Month

    Since Woodson's death in 1950, the organization that he founded, the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History -- now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) -- has fought to keep his legacy alive.

  • SOURCE: The Dialog
    2/2/20

    Black History Month has a little known Catholic history as well

    by Shannen Dee Williams

    In 1949, famed Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes celebrated Negro History Week (the precursor to Black History Month) with members of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and their students at the all black and Catholic St. Alphonsus School.