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Black History Month 2024 has begun. Here's this year's theme and other things to know
npr ^ | February 1, 2025 | Scott Neuman , Jonathan Franklin

Posted on 02/18/2025 9:09:47 AM PST by xxqqzz

February marks Black History Month, a tradition that got its start in the Jim Crow era and was officially recognized in 1976 as part of the nation's bicentennial celebrations. It aims to honor the contributions that African Americans have made and to recognize their sacrifices.

Here are three things to know about Black History Month:

It was Negro History Week before it was Black History Month In 1926, Carter G. Woodson, the scholar often referred to as the "father of Black history," established Negro History Week to focus attention on Black contributions to civilization.

According to the NAACP, Woodson — at the time only the second Black American after W.E.B. Du Bois to earn a doctorate from Harvard University — "fervently believed that Black people should be proud of their heritage and [that] all Americans should understand the largely overlooked achievements of Black Americans."

Woodson, the son of former enslaved people, famously said: "If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

Woodson chose a week in February because of Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday was Feb. 12, and Frederick Douglass, who was born enslaved and did not know his actual birth date, but chose to celebrate it on Feb. 14.

"Those two people were central to helping to afford Black people the experience of freedom that they have now," W. Marvin Dulaney, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) told NPR in 2023.

Woodson founded ASALH in 1915 and today is the official promoter of Black History Month.

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I am going to bake a devils food cake to celebrate.
1 posted on 02/18/2025 9:09:47 AM PST by xxqqzz
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I think I’ll rewatch some episodes of Amos and Andy on YouTube later.


2 posted on 02/18/2025 9:10:50 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Can someone tell me when White History Month is? Or are White accomplishments not enough to get a month for them?


3 posted on 02/18/2025 9:12:19 AM PST by econjack
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There is only one true history, but many perspectives. George Orwell, 1984: “Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? ….. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”


4 posted on 02/18/2025 9:12:32 AM PST by Eli Kopter (Gentle elves set light to lead the Faroes on the starry way from age to age - U. of Faroe Islands)
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Just think. The single sheet of toilet paper lady and Tesla boycotter, Sheryl Crowbait probably paid for this for NPR.


5 posted on 02/18/2025 9:12:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The U.S. Government was never meant to be a jobs program.)
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If they celebrated white accomplishments there would not be enough months in the year.

:-)


6 posted on 02/18/2025 9:13:10 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: econjack

I used to complain about not having a month and then a black person reminded me that every day is white American day. Hmmmm.


7 posted on 02/18/2025 9:15:55 AM PST by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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Self censored.


8 posted on 02/18/2025 9:15:55 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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Christians and Jews: We're all made in God's image.

Leftists: Nope. We gotta keep everybody divided about something.

9 posted on 02/18/2025 9:17:31 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Why is NPR promoting such a hatful racist event?


10 posted on 02/18/2025 9:20:05 AM PST by Skwor
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In all seriousness, if I were a teacher, the one way I would acknowledge Black History Month, is to make everyone read Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery”.


11 posted on 02/18/2025 9:21:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Just think. The single sheet of toilet paper lady and Tesla boycotter, Sheryl Crowbait probably paid for this for NPR.

with the car she sold for $$$$ in the fall of last year, the vid of her saying goodbye reviels the trees are in autumn mode. Typical dumb a## liberal. I just hope the single toilet sheet Madame is tossing a nice healthy green salad for her liberal guests with no gloves on


12 posted on 02/18/2025 9:28:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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With MLKJr Day, Juneteenth, and Black History Month, they still fall far short of the LGBTQR2+PDQ People.


13 posted on 02/18/2025 9:28:13 AM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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They’ll eventually get Harvey Milk Day.


14 posted on 02/18/2025 9:30:02 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I saw The Jeffersons the other night so I’ve done my part! Oh and I slipped on some African American ice the other day


15 posted on 02/18/2025 9:30:05 AM PST by albie (U)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_awareness_periods

Read it and weep, NAACP.


16 posted on 02/18/2025 9:31:12 AM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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They’ve alread named a Navy Ship after him.


17 posted on 02/18/2025 9:31:41 AM PST by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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20 Black Holidays To Celebrate Your History & Culture Instead of the White-Washed Ones

https://urbanintellectuals.com/black-holidays-to-celebrate-your-history-culture-instead-of-the-white-washed-ones/

Even if the White population agrees to give them a Holiday, it's not good enough for them because it was touched by our hands. This is some other kind of race hatred.

18 posted on 02/18/2025 9:31:54 AM PST by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun. Right foot! Left foot! Sweet Liberty Valens! Thank God for Guns! --Denny Crane)
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...every day is white American day.

Then why don't I see public service announcements on TV announcing it, or one-hour TV programs to brag about White accomplishments? The month seems to be saying: We're surprised by Black accomplishments, so we need to set aside a time to tell people. Really? We all know they have contributed over time, from Thomas Mundy Peterson, George Washington Carver, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, and all the others who have made a mark in history. But do their deeds overshadow similar marks in history made by other non-Blacks Americans? I'd rather see all this hoopla called American History month.

19 posted on 02/18/2025 9:33:04 AM PST by econjack
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I immediately wondered if Carter Woodson was any relation to Robert Woodson, who founded the Woodson Center; but apparently not:

https://woodsoncenter.org/about-us/meet-our-founder/


20 posted on 02/18/2025 9:33:47 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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