Celebrating Black History: Educating, Encouraging, and Embracing (3E) Future Generations

The 3E snapshots below are abbreviated to emphasize the significance of Black History Month:

EDUCATING

Educating is a type of oral event that involves sharing and imparting information to promote awareness about the significance of Black History Month. It is a shared heritage that black communities can claim as their own and preserve! It also includes teaching diversity, inclusiveness, and multiculturalism among others. Teaching black history in a culturally responsive way in home and schools using stories, books, black leaders, and their accomplishments going beyond discussions of racism and slavery.

EMBRACING

Embracing Black History Month is about accepting oneself and identity and building that self-esteem, confidence and decision-making power made at any level to ensure that present and future generations understand the significance of the month. It can also be supporting the beliefs, policies and legal frameworks and other changes at the national and international level that promote a positive influence on black people’s health and wellness, socio-economic, education and political situation.

ENCOURAGING

Encouraging students and young people to stay committed to black history month as an opportunity to reimagine what possibilities lie ahead of them to inspire current and future generations.

Program Overview

Brief background:

As early as the 1940s, black Americans celebrated February as "Negro History Month." As the American civil rights struggle and the rise of Black consciousness in the 1960s got popular, Negro History Week became Black History Month in an increasing number of places. In 1976, the organization Woodson formed (later called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History) helped to popularize February as Black History Month, with President Gerald Ford encouraging Americans to observe and participate.

The three EEE snapshots below are abbreviated to emphasize the significance of Black History Month:

  • Educating is a type of oral event that involves sharing and imparting information in order to promote awareness about the significance of Black History Month. It is a shared heritage that black communities can claim as their own and preserve!
  • Accepting to stay committed to black history month in order to inspire current and future generations is encouraging.
  • Embracing Black History Month is a decision made at any level, whether personally or communally, to ensure that present and future generations understand the significance of the month.
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