LA Times admits it used to ignore Black History Week (Month)
Black History Month was established in 1976, as an evolution of Negro History Week (founded half a century earlier by Carter G. Woodson), and has since become a staple of the nation's elementary school classrooms and textbooks.
Times editorials, on the other hand, have paid little attention. The editorial board's first mention of "Negro History Week" was little more than a half-hearted announcement of the Week's 40th anniversary...
By contrast the 80s saw growing interest in Black History Month on the Op-Ed page. And these commentators' views weren't quite so rosy...
Worthwhile or not, many commentators still didn't take well to having black history confined to the shortest month of the year....
True to form, the board again reverted to PSA mode at the start of the new millennium....
That was the last anyone heard from the board -- which didn't stop others from passing comment, especially on the commercialization of African Americans' heritage...
And the real coup de grace?
[In 2006 the LAT published a piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan, which began "I hate Black History Month."...]
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Times editorials, on the other hand, have paid little attention. The editorial board's first mention of "Negro History Week" was little more than a half-hearted announcement of the Week's 40th anniversary...
By contrast the 80s saw growing interest in Black History Month on the Op-Ed page. And these commentators' views weren't quite so rosy...
Worthwhile or not, many commentators still didn't take well to having black history confined to the shortest month of the year....
True to form, the board again reverted to PSA mode at the start of the new millennium....
That was the last anyone heard from the board -- which didn't stop others from passing comment, especially on the commercialization of African Americans' heritage...
And the real coup de grace?
[In 2006 the LAT published a piece by Erin Aubry Kaplan, which began "I hate Black History Month."...]