if he were permitted to come inside the classroom and hear Dr. Woodson speak.” So on Sept 9, 1915, Woodson confidently invited four African American notables to a meeting at the YMCA.

Saturday marks the start of Black History Month, a time to honor Black people and the Black experience. And while Black History celebrations have been held for decades, some people may not realize ...

Today is both the day set aside to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy ... and MacArthur Fellow Jacqueline Woodson is looking to the past. “Nothing we’re living in is new,” said ...

“No one was centralizing it until Dr. Carter G. Woodson was in 1926.” After he passed away in 1950, the members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, which Dr. Woodson was a member of, did a lot of ...

“No one was centralizing it until Dr. Carter G. Woodson was in 1926.” After he passed away in 1950, the members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, which Dr. Woodson was a member of, did a lot of ...

This piece originally appeared in The New Republic on Feb. 5, 1916. One of the unsung advantages of democracy is that of being consistently and unblushingly illogical. No despot, for instance ...

It was founded by Dr. Carter Woodson, who spent his life advocating for the transformative power of African American history. The son of a formerly enslaved mother and father, he was a historian ...