President Donald Trump's administration issued a proclamation on Friday, Jan. 31, recognizing Black History Month and simultaneously announced the end of cultural observances at the Defense ...

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.

That seemed to clash with a National Black History Month proclamation signed the same ... Black History Month has been recognized by every U.S. president since 1976, including Trump during his ...

The president, who was found civilly liable for sexual assault, released a screed targeting immigrants to mark the occasion.