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A Michigan teacher resigned after school district officials slammed her Black Lives Matter curriculum suggestions for Black History Month. For three years, special education teacher Katelyn Thomas has taught grades one through five. She says that she suggested the Black Lives Matter curriculum to Mason Public School district leaders in …

A Utah charter school is facing backlash after announcing on Friday that it allowed parents to opt-out of Black History Month curriculum. The Hill reports that Maria Montessori Academy Director Micah Hirokawa announced in a post to the school’s private Facebook page. Hirokawa said in his post that “a few families” asked …

Keke Wyatt is getting dragged on Twitter after she seemingly attacked pro-Blackness and compared the Black community’s oppression to the Black, mixed-race biracial community. On Tuesday, the ladies of Fox Soul‘s “Cocktails with Queens Hosted by Claudia Jordan” discussed a video posted online by Milan Christopher‘s live stream of “The …

As we all know, February marks the formal celebration of Black History Month. What you may not know is that before there was a designated month to celebrate the culture, people, achievements and contributions of African Americans, Carter G. Woodson launched “Negro History Week” in 1926. However, it wasn’t declared …

Black History Month (BHM) is just a few days away and Nike is ready to set the tone for 2019 with its BHM themed collection.  The collection was inspired by “an assortment of national African patterns, brought together onto modernized prints in a theme of Afro-futurism in sport,” according to …

President of New York University, Andrew Hamilton, has issued an apologetic statement to students after controversy transpired at the school concerning their insensitive food choices for one of the dining halls menus for Black History Month. Last week, the dining hall served a menu based on racial stereotypes, which included …