Celebrating Black History Month
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Featured Coverage of this Story
From the Right
Black History Month 2021 focusing on 'The Family' as a themeMonday marks the start of Black History Month, a time to reflect on the contributions African Americans have made to the U.S. while recognizing that the fight for racial justice continues.
The theme of Black History Month this year is "The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity."
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) chose the theme, as it does every year: Past themes include "Black Migrations," "Black Women in American Culture and History" and "The Niagara Movement," among others.
From the Left
Do We Ask Too Much of Black Heroes?This is the first piece in “Black History, Continued,” a series that will explore pivotal moments and transformative figures in Black culture and examine how the past shapes the present and the future.
In the early 20th century, before Negro History Week had turned into Black History Month, African-American teachers and children in schools throughout the segregated South would paste images of celebrated figures of Black history on the walls of their schools. It was a public affirmation that greatness existed among their people despite oppression. As a woman born...
From the Left
Black History Month 2021: The only way forward is through, togetherIt’s an understatement to say that 2020 got on Black folks’ collective last nerve.
We began the year with a COVID-19 pandemic that hit us harder than any other group of Americans and exposed the systemic inequities still at the root of the nation’s institutions despite the gains of the civil rights movement.
Black people were among essential workers risking their lives to serve others, but also among the first to lose their jobs after stay-at-home orders shuttered businesses in every state. Many of us lost friends and relatives...
AllSides Picks
May 21st, 2024
May 21st, 2024
May 16th, 2024
Discuss & Debate race and racism
Community Conversations for Election 2024
May 21 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET Living Room Conversations