Anna Holstein<\/p>\n
February 24, 2025<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014 <\/span>Huntington is no stranger to February\u2019s Black History Month, in these uncertain times regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Huntington\u2019s own Carter G. Woodson left a legacy of involvement and inclusion as the \u201cFather of Black History.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Cicero M. Fain, Marshall University Assistant Provost, said Woodson is a giant in the field of Black History. \u201cFor him to have started Black History, well then Negro History Week, now Black History Month, the association for the study of African American History and life, and his many other endeavors to insert African American history, not to replace white history, but to insert African American history is unquestionably still needed\u201d Fain said.<\/p>\n Indulging in more recent history, Society of Black Scholars member Alexus Steele said her mother is the most significant person in her life when it comes to black history. \u201cHearing that my mom was able to not only do it but be able to achieve such high things and go onto college and get her master\u2019s degree, it was really inspiring.\u201d Steele said.<\/p>\n Regarding the national, state and on campus controversy over Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts, both Fain and Steele plan to continue to honor black history.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m still a citizen and citizens have rights,\u201d Fain said. \u201cI also have a great number of strategic pathways that I can pursue and engage in that will continue to elevate black history and its continuing significance.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEven if we might not be able to teach it or do things that we would typically be doing, that doesn’t mean that it’s not our responsibility as individuals in the community to do our part in educating our peers and our family members and still just showing that recognition, even if it can’t be at that state level,\u201d Steele said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anna Holstein February 24, 2025 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014 Huntington is no stranger to February\u2019s Black History Month, in these uncertain times regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Huntington\u2019s own Carter G. Woodson left a legacy of involvement and inclusion as the \u201cFather of Black History.\u201d Dr. Cicero M. Fain, Marshall University Assistant Provost, said Woodson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,4],"tags":[801,796,797,799,798,800,115,803,805,804,806,69,807,28,782,73,74,802,23,51,96],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-wmul-news","tag-african-american","tag-anna-holstein","tag-anna-holstein-wmul","tag-bhm","tag-black-history-month","tag-carter-g-woodson","tag-college-radio","tag-dei","tag-diversity","tag-diversity-equity-inclusion","tag-equity","tag-huntington-wv","tag-inclusion","tag-marshall-university","tag-nc88","tag-wmul-news","tag-newscenter-88","tag-society-of-black-scholars","tag-thundering-herd","tag-wmul","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3574,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}