Black History Month started as Negro History Week in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson. Today, his great great grand nephew, Brett, is a college student at UC Santa Cruz, and he's learning what it means ...

In 1926, Woodson created Negro history week, anchoring it between the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.In the 1970s the week officially expanded to a month. Woodson helped ...

The Woodson family members at the Woodson reconciliation ceremony in 1998. ... "That's cousin Craig," says Patty LaBauve (also Adele's cousin, for those trying to keep the family tree straight).

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history?

D-Day: Eisenhower and the paratroopers' key to success 05:40. Waverly B. Woodson Jr., who was part of the only African American combat unit involved in the D-Day invasion during World War II ...

Charles Woodson is getting back to his Ohio roots, buying a small minority share of the Cleveland Browns.. Woodson, a Fremont native and Pro Football Hall of Famer, is purchasing a 0.1% stake from ...

Craig Woodson hugs Edgar Woodson at the Woodson reconciliation ceremony in 1998. "That's how we have evolved here, as being a part of America," says Patty LaBauve, Edgar's niece.

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.

In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.