Black historians strategize how to preserve culture in racially hostile climate

When revered historian Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month, it was at a time when the mainstream was not interested in learning about the history of Black Americans.

Now that there’s an administration in place that is attempting to dismantle institutions celebrating Black history, Woodson’s Association for the Study of African American Life and History is trying to figure out how to survive this latest attack on the Black American narrative.

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