iJournalism News Team investigates the meaning of Black History Month

February is Black History Month and the iJournalism News Team set out to interview a variety of WC students about the significance of this special month.  iJournalist, Rylie Mullins asked high school senior, Johnny Wordlaw, "What is Black History Month?" Wordlaw explained that [this] "is a month where we celebrate African Americans who meant a lot to the United States of America." Robbie Brennan of WC3, discovered from high school senior, Fred Skipper, that "Black History Month began back in 1926 when Carter G. Woodson named the second week of February as 'Negro History Week.' Fifty years later in 1976, it was named 'Black History Month.'" In this broadcast, the news team tries to find out just how much our students know about Black history and what we discovered was startling.  The news team will probe deeper in the coming weeks.  iJournalism student, Brian Lambright iterated that " Black history is American history," and we want to make sure that our students know the whole story.
~David Stoll
iJouralism teacher