{"id":2366,"date":"2022-10-01T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:10:20","slug":"black-history-month-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/10\/01\/black-history-month-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2368\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/BHM-IG.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 85vw, 241px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The theme for this year\u2019s Black History Month is \u2018<em>Time for Change: Action Not Words<\/em>\u2019, which means working to tackle racism, reclaim Black history and ensure Black people, their pasts and their stories are included and represented all year round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/19916-bhm-ecard-banners-st3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2369\" width=\"296\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/19916-bhm-ecard-banners-st3.png 617w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/09\/19916-bhm-ecard-banners-st3-300x190.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take a look at the events at the UoB during Black History Month <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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for this year\u2019s Black History Month is \u2018Time for Change: Action Not Words\u2019, which means working to tackle racism, reclaim Black history and ensure Black people, their pasts and their stories are included and represented all year round. Started in the US as a week-long celebration in 1926 by Carter G Woodson, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/10\/01\/black-history-month-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black History Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":2367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366","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=2366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}