Educator and historian Carter G. Woodson was the founder of what is now the Association for the Study of African American ...

Noted Black scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson, known as the Father of Black History, was born in 1875 to ...

On Jan. 31, the Department of Defense announced in a statement that it will not use official resources, such as staff time, ...

When we think about the transformative power of education, Dr. Carter G. Woodson’s name and impact stand out. Known as the “Father of Black History,” Woodson’s remarkable contributions to Black ...

February is Black History Month — but where did the concept come from? The answer is right here in Central Virginia.

He chose February because the birthdays of President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist Frederick Douglass were celebrated this month. Lincoln’s birthday was Feb. 12, and Douglass, born a slave, didn’t ...

I began researching the life of the first Blacks to attend the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at ...

Howard University is home to one of only fifteen U.S. Department of Defense University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) in the United States, with a focus on tactical autonomy, human-machine teaming ...

Howard University breaks the glass ceiling in academics by becoming the first HBCU with a Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification.

The man behind Black History Month was a Harvard scholar who felt “all Americans should understand the largely overlooked ...