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With the death of Soul Train founder Don Cornelius at the very beginning of the month, and that of Whitney Houston on February 11, Black History Month 2012 is fated to go down in history as one during which the...
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In addition to kicking off the beginning of Black History Month 2012, February 1 also marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Langston Hughes, one of America’s most acclaimed authors. Although widely celebrated for his...
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Historian Carter G. Woodson, who during the Harlem Renaissance founded Black History Week––later to become Black History Month––was a powerful visionary able to resist the constant denigration of his people’s humanity...
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