Search

Historian Carter G. Woodson established the first Negro History Week in 1926—a celebration that later became Black History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, a group founded by Woodson, selects a new theme for Black History Month each year. This year’s theme is "Black Women in American Culture and History."

Scholar Debbie Reese talks book bans and the fear of a just society.

Use these ideas to include the religious and nonreligious diversity of students’ home lives in your practice.

It was Black History Month. I was working with children and youth in an after-school program in the Clarksdale housing projects in Louisville, Ky. Spike Lee's film Malcolm X had just been released. I sat around a table with a group of teenagers discussing Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X and James Cone’s Martin & Malcolm & America.

The “whys” and “hows” of teaching about religious radicalism.

Student filmmakers promote dialogue and activism in their communities.

The country's first inhabitants are the least likely to vote in national elections. Why?