As #BlackHistoryMonth ends, we can thank Carter G. Woodson who initiated the idea, and to whom – Langston Hughes wrote – America owes a debt of gratitude: “For many years now he has labored in the cause of Negro history, and his labors have begun to bear a most glorious fruit.”
Here are just some of our favorite picks that brought us to a deeper understanding of #Blackhistory:
African American studies scholar @DoctorGooding explores how “the lack of Black statues sends a clear message of exclusion.”

theconversation.com/old-statues-of…
Black inventors have always innovated - even among enslaved people, whose inventions profited only their masters theconversation.com/americas-alway…
#BlackHistoryMonth
Charles Chesnutt used humor to poke holes in the nostalgic myths of the South and expose the contradictions of a racist society (via @UofSC) #BlackHistoryMonth theconversation.com/how-a-black-wr…
Allison Davis was a pioneer in exposing structural racism in America - in the 1940s theconversation.com/allison-davis-… #blackhistory
The battle over desegregating schools was just as bitter in New York City as it was in the South theconversation.com/fighting-schoo… (via @UTAustinCOLA)

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