Nyack College Department of Communications Chair and Program Director Dr. Sharron Greaves, has announced that in observance of Black History Month WNYK 88.7 FM Warrior Radio, will celebrate the contributions of African Americans to our nation. These tributes will feature profiles of prominent or unsung men and women. The highlights will air daily with regular rotation on WNYK.
“The forerunner of Black History Month was established in 1926 in the United States by Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. It was first known as "Negro History Week” and was observed annually the second week of February. University of Chicago and Harvard University-educated Woodson is said to have chosen that week because it fell during the week of the birthdates of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and African American abolitionist, author and orator Frederick Douglass,” Dr. Greaves explains.
The Carter G. Woodson African American Museum carries on the legacy of Dr. Woodson, who died in 1950. The mission of the museum is to “preserve, present, and interpret African American history and to engage a broad and diverse audience.”
Continuing that tradition of preserving black history, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture opened its doors in Washington, D.C. in September 2016.