Black History Month turns 100. See 2026 theme, origins

Black History Month turns 100. See 2026 theme, origins

Here's how the 2026 Black History Month theme celebrates 100 years since Negro History Week began.

Dr. Carter Woodson’s 100-year-old initiative challenged by Trump’s MAGA movement  – Jackson Advocate

This month millions will celebrate Black History Month under the theme of “A Century of Black History Commemorations.” This will occur because in February 1926 Dr. Carter G. Woodson initiated the celebration of Negro History Week. For the occasion he chose the second week of February, honoring two of the Black community’s highly respected heroes, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. For the next 50 Februarys, Black people in Black churches, i…

Honoring the Legacy. Celebrating the Culture. Inspiring the Future. Black History Month

February 2026 marks a monumental milestone: 100 years since the founding of Black History Month, which began in 1926 as Negro History Week under the leadership of historian Dr. Carter G. Woodson. What started as a corrective to exclusion has grown into a global observance, one that honors the achievements, struggles, and enduring impact of Africans and African Americans. In Metro Detroit, the...

The origins of Black History Month

Black History Month began as an effort to address the exclusion of Black Americans from the teaching and study of United States history. Its origins can be traced to historian Carter G. Woodson, whose work focused on documenting and preserving Black life, culture and achievement at a time when they were absent from mainstream historical studies. Woodson was born in 1875 in Virginia to parents who had been enslaved. He worked in coal mines as a t…