{"id":1680,"date":"2021-10-01T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T07:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2021-09-21T16:04:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:04:03","slug":"black-history-month-1-31-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/10\/01\/black-history-month-1-31-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month 1-31 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/poster-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1684\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Black History Month is \u2018Proud to Be\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For events in BHM here at the University of Birmingham, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/black-history-month\/index.aspx\">https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/black-history-month\/index.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Started in the US as a week-long celebration in 1926 by Carter G Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher, in 1976 it became a month-long celebration in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was not officially celebrated in the UK until 1987 when it was organised by the activist Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, at the time special projects coordinator for the Greater London Council. The first Black History Month was celebrated only in London but, in the years since, the celebration has spread across the whole UK and is now celebrated annually throughout each October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main aims of Black History Month are to celebrate the achievements and contributions of black people throughout the world and to educate all on black history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/BHM_A1_Writing-their-names-in-history.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/BHM_A1_Writing-their-names-in-history.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2021\/09\/BHM_A1_Writing-their-names-in-history-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Black History Month is \u2018Proud to Be\u2019. For events in BHM here at the University of Birmingham, please visit https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/events\/black-history-month\/index.aspx Started in the US as a week-long celebration in 1926 by Carter G Woodson, a noted African American historian, scholar, educator and publisher, in 1976 it became a month-long celebration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2021\/10\/01\/black-history-month-1-31-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month 1-31 October&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration","category-commemorative-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}