Black History Month

The documentary returns to theaters this month alongside the release of a new box set. It's a chance to consider what it captures (and doesn't) about music, race and justice in the 1970s and today.

Police in Columbus, Ohio, rolled out a specially decorated cruiser for Black History Month. A backlash soon followed.

NPR Music's Tiny Desk series continues a celebration of Black History Month with this set from Lee Fields.

Black leaders are featured on the set of 4 education cards that are free to visitors of Lincoln Tomb.

Hosted by Kimberly France, this is a free event in honor of Black History Month.

Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed. His new book is Saying It Loud.

This week's StoryCorps tells the story of Wendell Scott, who drove during the Jim Crow era and was the first African American to win a race at NASCAR's elite major league level.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with co-creator of Black Nerds Create Bayana Davis about the collective's month-long digital celebration: Black Magical History Month.

The organization released the new curriculum for the Advanced Placement course after Florida rejected the pilot. The revisions removed units on Black feminist literary thought and Black Lives Matter.

The white and Black descendents of Carter G. Woodson, the father of Black History and founder of Black History Month, come together to heal their past.