US EditionBlack History Month centennial channels angst over anti-DEI climate into education, free resources
The centennial celebration includes nationwide campaigns offering free educational resources to counter anti-critical race theory efforts, with 150+ teachers involved, organizers said.
- This month, the centennial observance marks 100 years since Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week, with hundreds of lectures, teach‑ins and new books nationwide.
- After last year's executive orders, organizers say renewed activism arose from anti-DEI moves and the federal administration's removal of a Philadelphia slavery exhibit last month.
- Campaigns are producing and distributing free curricular materials and working with more than 150 teachers, linking the book and research to a living-history campaign run with Campaign Zero and Afro Charities.
- Educators and artists are focusing on efforts to engage students and young people with fuller accounts of Black history, organizers say.
- Positioned alongside the America250 observance, ASALH scheduled statewide programs including a February 10 livestream and exhibits through February 28.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH ACTIVITIES Fri., Feb. 6, 7 p.m. (6 p.m. doors), St. Louis County Library’s Black History Celebration Presents the 2026 Frankie Freeman Inspirational Lecture. This year’s lecture will feature Vivian Gibson, author of The Last Children of Mill Creek, in conversation with Gwen Moore, Curator of the Missouri History Museum Exhibition, “Mill Creek: Black Metropolis.” Presented in partnership with the Missouri Historical Society an…
Black History Month Centennial Channels Angst Over Trump Administration's Anti-DEI Crusade, Attacks on Black History - Bucks County Beacon
For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating the teaching of Black history in the United States. Despite last year proclaiming February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump started his second term by claiming some African American history lessons are meant to indoctrinate people into hating the country. The administration has dismantled Black history at national parks, most recently …
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