The Black history month
Dr. Anthia 
The black history month which is also referred to as African-American History Month, is an annual February recognition of African Americans and the vital role they played both in founding and shaping of the united states of America.
It is a way of remembering important people and events in the history of Africans in diaspora.
Carter Godwin Woodson is the founder and originator of the black history month he has been called the “father of black history”. He was an American historian, author, journalist., and the founder of the Association for the study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora.
In February 1926, he launched the celebration of “Negro History Week”, the precursor of Black History Month. He was a strong force to the movement of Afrocentrism due to how he always placed the people of African decent at the center of the study of history and the human experience. He was born in Virginia and was a son of a former slave.
The black history month is celebrated in February in the United states and Canada, where it has received official recognition from governments, and has recently been celebrated in Ireland and the United Kingdom where it is observed in October.
Since it gained recognition as an official heritage celebration, black history month has been assigned a theme for each year of its celebration. This year’s theme is “Africans Americans and labor”, a theme intended to encompass all the ways black people have experienced hard labor historically and currently.
In time past the themes have been “Black Resistance”, which focuses on honoring the heroes whose continuous resistance led to justice and freedom for Black Americans.
The celebration literally begins on the 1st of February and finishes on the last day of the month.
