Celebrating Black History Month: NPR — Here's the Story Behind Black History Month and Why It's Celebrated in February

Join us in honoring Black History Month. As Sara Clarke Kaplan of American University’s Antiracist Research & Policy Center correctly states, “There is no American history without African American history.” In this article for NPR, Jonathan Franklin surveys the evolution of Black History Month, envisioned by Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” as an opportunity “to focus and broaden the nation’s consciousness.”