By U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume In 1926, Harvard-trained historian Carter G. Woodson launched 'Negro History Week.” Celebrated during the second week of February, it was designed to promote the study of African American contributions to the United States. Fifty years later, in 1976, President Gerald Ford helped establish what we now know as Black History Month […]

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