College campuses across the country celebrated Black History Month throughout the early 1970s before it was ... to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, which Woodson ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Freedom House Ambulance Service ... generation of pilots to take to the skies Women Who Shaped History ...

Kent State University started a month-long celebration of Black history in 1970. The national celebration ... important general election—was “African Americans and the Vote.” ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why it still matters.

Another important African American in gospel music history was the Rev. Charles A ... “Between World War I and the 1970s, 6 million African Americans moved from the South to urban areas throughout the ...

Under the Obama Administration, Black Music Month was renamed African-American Music Appreciation Month but it’s since gone back to its roots. Black Music Month “is an acknowledgement that ...

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

Kenyans are reminiscing about the work of author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the U.S. They recall Ngũgĩ’s ...

Since the mid-1970s, every president has designated ... National Museum of African American History and Culture 1400 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. The country's premiere museum ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...