What Black Americans say is needed to overcome racial inequality
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 11, 2023
Signs in a storefront in Brooklyn, New York City, on June 1, 2020. The city had imposed a curfew following days of mass protests against police brutality. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Black History Month originated in 1926 as Negro History Week. Created by Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian and journalist, the week celebrated the achievements of Black Americans following their emancipation from slavery.
Since 1928, the organization that Woodson founded, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, has . . .
