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You can find this story in My Bookmarks.Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right.Black History Month is an annual observance with roots in the United States, which was started by American historian Carter G Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, in 1926.
It is marked every year the US, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK.