April is National Diversity Awareness Month in the United States. In 2004, it was created as a month-long celebration of Emancipation Day (April 16), which marked the anniversary of the day President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing more than 3,000 slaves in the District of Columbia. It has since been broadened to recognize […]

The celebration of Women’s History Month started in 1981 when Congress passed legislation that requested the President proclaim the week of March 7, 1982, as Women’s History Week. By 1987, March was named Women’s History Month. March encompasses International Women’s Day (March 8), a global event that celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements […]

Black History Month began in 1915, almost half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. Historian Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH), which was dedicated to researching and promoting the successes of Black Americans and those […]