History of Black History Month: The First 50 Years
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer ShowPublished On: Mon Feb 16 2026
Description: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and professor of communications and African and African American Studies at Loyola University Maryland and the founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace, & Social Justice, talks about the history of Black History Month, which was established first as ""Negro History Week"" in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, and how it evolved over the mid-20th century." Image by courtesy of Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images.
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