Tag Archives: Carter G. Woodson

One Hundred Years of Black History

Posted on February 16, 2026 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

My father was born the same month Negro History Week was announced, timed to Lincoln’s February 12 and Douglass’s February 14 birthdays. Nearing his centennial, he embodied Black history: North Carolina segregation, a segregated WWII Army, then migration to New York. He rarely spoke of it, but history and literature helped me understand. Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Memory & Personal Essays, Race, History & American Society | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Bard College, Bicentennial, Black Arts Movement, Black History Month, Black Patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Carter G. Woodson, Decisive Decade, Family, fathers, Fourth of July, Frederic, Frederick Douglass, Gerald Ford, Growing Up, Kent State, Martin Luther King Jr., Negro History Week, North Carolina, raising black boys, Samuel Yette, Segregation, The Black Blood of Poetry, The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch | Leave a comment

Revisiting _The Miseducation of the Negro_ This Black History Month

Posted on February 3, 2026 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Carter G. Woodson’s seminal book, The Miseducation of the Negro, published in 1926, is a book Black folk should periodically revisit, perhaps every three years, ideally every year. If you are Black and you have not read the book, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Education & Teaching, Politics & Public Affairs | Tagged 1619 Project, african-american, Aristotelian Logic, Aunt Jemima, Black history, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Candace Owens, Carter G. Woodson, Clarence Thomas, Classical Rhetoric, Compulsory Education Act (1852), culture, General Grammar, history, Jim Crow, Nicholas Capaldi, Plessy v. Ferguson, raising black boys, Russell Sage College, Slavery, The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Trivium, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Uncle Tom, writing | Leave a comment

Black History Month: Celebrating a Legacy of Resilience

Posted on February 1, 2026 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Uplifting my Black History Series Blog. This year is the 100th Anniversary of what we know call Black History Month! Continue reading →

Posted in Race, History & American Society | Tagged 1619, 1880 U.S. Census, african-american, Barbados, Black history, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Carter G. Woodson, culture, history, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Negro History Week, North Carolina, racism, The Miseducation of the Negro | Leave a comment

Significance of Black History Month: A Deep Exploration

Posted on February 2, 2025 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Uplifting my Black History Series Blog. Next year will be the 100th Anniversary of what we know call Black History Month! Continue reading →

Posted in Race, History & American Society | Tagged 1619, 1880 U.S. Census, Barbados, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Carter G. Woodson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, Negro History Week, North Carolina, The Miseducation of the Negro | 3 Comments

Black History: “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud!”

Posted on February 4, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

My first three posts this Black History Month have invoked Carter G. Woodson, “the father of Black history,” and his seminal work, The Miseducation of the Negro, published in 1926. Most importantly, Woodson, the creator of Black History Month, gave Black … Continue reading →

Posted in Race, History & American Society | Tagged 1619 Project, Alexander Hamilton High School, Bach, Black history, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Carter G. Woodson, Critical Race Theory, Diana Ross, I.S. 318, James Brown, Paul Robeson High School, PS 148, The Miseducation of the Negro, Touch Me in the Morning, W. E. B. Du Bois | 1 Comment

Correcting The Miseducation of the Negro

Posted on February 3, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Posted in Education & Teaching, Politics & Public Affairs | Tagged 1619 Project, Aristotelian Logic, Aunt Jemima, Black History Month, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Brown v. Board of Education, Candace Owens, Carter G. Woodson, Clarence Thomas, Classical Rhetoric, Compulsory Education Act (1852), General Grammar, Jim Crow, Nicholas Capaldi, Plessy v. Ferguson, raising black boys, Russell Sage College, Slavery, The Art of Deception: An Introduction to Critical Thinking, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Trivium, U.S. Senator Tim Scott, Uncle Tom | 4 Comments

From The Miseducation of the Negro to Critical Race Theory

Posted on February 2, 2024 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Carter G. Woodson, “the father of Black History,” wrote The Miseducation of the Negro in 1926. Woodson earned his PhD from Harvard University, and during his academic career served as the Dean of Howard University, an historically Black research university, established … Continue reading →

Posted in Race, History & American Society | Tagged Billie Holiday, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, cancel culture, Carter G. Woodson, Civil War, Critical Race Theory, Day of the Rope, DEI, Harvard University, Howard University, Lynching, Slavery, Strange Fruit, The Miseducation of the Negro, Toni Morrison | 5 Comments

A Farewell to Black History Month, 2022

Posted on February 28, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Black History Month is in the shortest month of the year. Caesar Augustus, thinking that the month in honor of his name was too short, took days from February, short changing what would become Black History Month. In fact, when … Continue reading →

Posted in Streets of Rage | Tagged Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Carter G. Woodson, Harvard University, Rayford W. Logan, Sometimes Blue Knights Wear Black Hats, The Miseducation of the Negro, The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois | Leave a comment

Masquerading as White

Posted on February 20, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Given my book recommendation yesterday, that is, Black Robes, White Justice, by Judge Bruce Wright, it seems natural to recommend this book by Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. In many respects, this book explains Black jurists’ administering “white justice,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Education & Teaching | Tagged Black Skins White Masks, Carter G. Woodson, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth | 2 Comments

Happy Black History Month!

Posted on February 1, 2021 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Today, February 1, 2021, is Black History Month. Before there was Black History Month, there was Black History Week. Actually, then it was called “Negro History Week.” In 1926 (the year my father was born), historian Carter G. Woodson and … Continue reading →

Posted in Race, History & American Society | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Black History Month, Black History Week, Carter G. Woodson, Frederick Douglass, Negro History Week | Leave a comment

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