On Feb. 7, 1926, Carter G. Woodson -- a historian, scholar and journalist -- established the first Negro History Week.

Black History Month began in 1926 as ‘Negro History Week’, founded by historian Carter G. Woodson to highlight the overlooked ...

Jan. 31, Elizabethtown College’s Black Student Union club hosted a Black History Month Flag Raising. The event, sponsored by the Office of Civil Rights, Opportunity, and Access, was ...

As a child, Carter G. Woodson, the son of formerly enslaved and illiterate parents, endured the backbreaking labor of a ...

Did you know the man that is responsible for the creation of Black History Month once worked and lived near the New River ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - The Carter G. Woodson Library was once the only public library open to African Americans in Pender County. It all started in 1944 when Mary D. Smith led an effort to fund a ...

No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who created Negro History Week in Washington, D.C., in February 1926. Woodson was ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Mike Woodson, an alumnus of the Indiana basketball program, will step down after four seasons as coach, athletic director Scott Dolson said. Woodson's tenure had hills and valleys with three wins ...