Black History Month began in 1926 as ‘Negro History Week’, founded by historian Carter G. Woodson to highlight the overlooked contributions of Black Americans. The second week of February was chosen ...

Did you know that the NAACP began due to the early racial violence in the early 20th Century? A group of African-American ...

Here's everything to know about Black History Month, including when it is, where it was first celebrated and this year's ...

When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th US President, he did not put his left hand on either of the two Bibles held by his ...

In reality, Woodson chose February because two prominent figures in the civil rights movement — Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass — had birthdays in the week he chose. Whitehead also stresses ...

According to the photo's caption, pictured here are "A Rockwitz (312lbs), comedian Eddie Carvey (250lbs), David Burns (475lbs ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — — Beginning Feb. 1, schools, museums and communities across the nation will mark the start of Black History Month ... movement — Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass ...

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day coinciding with Trump’s January 20 swearing-in is a rare occurrence that's only happened twice in history ... since Abraham Lincoln," often pointing ...

There was even a painting of Abraham Lincoln with a rainbow behind it.” The last two years have been something of a romp through the dark and absurd corners of 19th-century American history for ...

Find your channel here ... Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. The original sculptor selected those four presidents because, to him, they represented the most important events ...

The Los Angeles Opera dropped a contemplated world premiere for the second straight season in a cost-cutting move, and Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” will instead open at New York’s ...