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What Black History Month was meant to correct.

I didn't know.

Welcome back, No at All's, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black

Effect Podcast Network, especially in February, entitled, I Didn't Know.

Maybe you didn't either.

I'm your host, BDOT.

And for the final seven episodes of Black History Month, we reopening some case files.

That's right.

Let's start here.

Because Black History Month didn't happen because America suddenly got curious.

I told you at the beginning of the season, it happened because the story was being told

wrong, much like in 2026.

100 years ago in 1926, Carter G. Woodson looked at America's textbooks and realized something

very dangerous.

Black folks was either invisible or only being mentioned when something

went wrong. So he opened up a case file on history itself. And that's what we're going to do

for these last seven episodes. We reopening them. And what I have for you to kick off the episode

are three of the most useless facts you'll never need not a day in life about Black History Month.

Up first, of course you know Black History Month started as Negro History Week 100 years ago this year,

but it wasn't to celebrate.

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