Opinion by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.: This year, Black History Month is all about the here and now
,” told me, “Speaking and writing historical truths that are inclusive of African American lives and contributions are more under threat than ever in the public square.”
,” put it this way: “The controversy raging now is over the degree to which American history, as we and our ancestors experienced it,AdvertisementThis is the central feature of Black History Month this year: an outright refusal to imagine this country as a truly multiracial democracy.
I cannot help but think about Carter G. Woodson, the Harvard-trained historian who launched “Negro History Week” nearly a century ago. Pero Dagbovie, a Michigan State University historian, reminds us that Woodson “launched Negro History Week in 1926, among other things, to help integrate the study of African American history into the K-12 educational system during the era of Jim Crow segregation.” Dagbovie pointed out that Woodson’s ultimate goal was to have “Negro History Year.
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