Are you guys teaching anything for Black History Month?

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It might be a good time to talk about the Trump Administration removing exhibits that discuss slavery, systemic racism, and other civil rights issues:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/16/judge-orders-restoration-philadelphia-slavery-exhibits-00783293

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/smithsonian-museums-trump-review-00505838

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Nope. Plenty of black historical figures make their way into my instruction organically. I don't need to manufacture racial bias as I'm simply teaching about things that happened.

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What do you mean re: manufacture…?

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Many people feel that the history, achievements, and contributions of Black individuals shouldn’t be limited to a single month—they should be recognized and integrated into education and conversation year-round.
At the same time, Black History Month was created with a specific purpose. It began as Negro History Week in 1926, founded by historian Carter G. Woodson, who believed Black history was being ignored or excluded from mainstream narratives. The dedicated time was meant to ensure focused attention in schools, media, and public institutions. It later expanded to a month in 1976.

So it’s not really about limiting Black history to one month, it’s about guaranteeing space for it in systems where it historically wasn’t given space.

Many educators and historians actually agree with your broader idea:
Black history should be taught as part of American history, not separate from it.
Conversations about contributions, struggles, culture, and innovation should happen year-round.
The month can serve as a spotlight, not a boundary.
In that sense, both ideas can coexist:
A dedicated month ensures visibility and intentional focus, while the larger goal is full integration into everyday learning and discussion.

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Agreed. As I teach Dual Enrollment English, we have so much in the curriculum as it is. I tell the students that I can't do Black History for a month; however, American literature cannot be adequately covered without black writers. Throughout the year, we read works by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes. They don't fit neatly together into a one-month time frame.

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I don’t adjust my instruction to highlight a given race. Seems illegal to me. And it is illegal to do so in my state now.

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Why not segregate? Black students enter the classrooms and each school receives federal dollars for their bodies but it doesn't play well to incorporate their identity within curriculum? Interesting. It behooves me how Blacks have contributed and labored these foul grounds to receive such blatant disgrace and ill acknowledgement, it truly reveals a hardened heart for all humanity.

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My students are in first grade so we keep it lighter. We don’t really cover the civil rights movement much. But we do focus on contributions to this country from African Americans. As the kids get older, they learn more and more about black history in this country.

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I like to read One Crazy Summer as a novel study during the month of Feb. The book is filled with the history of the 60s. My 6 th graders always get a lot out of it.

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As all information about all aspects of life should be truly taught. I honor the fact that there is a time for our culture to learn about ourselves. For so long we were not able to learn about who we are as a culture and were we have come from. Our ancestors were torn from their families and a lot of our heritage was lost. I am proud to be a black educator who is teaching all of my students not just this month but every moth about our culture and other cultures around this great world. If the truth hurts some of your feelings that's sad and on you!! We as humans should always be in a mode of learning! We are never to old to learn anything and we should train our children so the past do repeat itself!!! We teach with love not hate!!!

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I am still trying to wrap my brain around this conversation. Like why we as people of color are involve ourselves in identity explanations. The fact that we're proving our existance and acceptance in this country and some places around the world proves there's a mad societal regime abroad who still operates under a hidden and underground racial superiority tradition. It's not founded truth it's hate, and power crafted and created with dominance alliances. Don't bother, teach truth. The fact that Black children can sit in classrooms all over this nation and still be treated like Ruby Bridges is beyond me. Save your lesson for the classroom and teach with truth, godly convictions and pride.

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I teach it as it naturally falls into the curriculum, throughout the year. I also do different informational posts each day that kids can read on their own.

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Black history is already woven into my curriculum sufficiently so that I don't feel the need to do anything extra during a particular month.

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Our school isn't doing much my classroom. We haven't done anything.

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Im on the school system and where I am people of excellence are highlighted and recognized for their contributions into the world. This should be the case for any exceptional achievement by any human being. Why do Blacks have to be some how differ from other human life? This whole nation has and always be threatened by diversity and colorism.

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We did a few modules about it but not too much. I wish we did more but I don't set the cirriculum!

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