February is when we celebrate Black History Month, which began as a weeklong celebration to commemorate the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 12 and Frederick Douglass on Feb. 14. The expansion of Black History Week to Black History Month was officially recognized in 1976, when President Gerald Ford used a Bicentennial address to urge Americans to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishm…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM on January 27, 2016