Dr. Amos Wilson. We should not relegate our interest in our history, which in its fullest sense is world history, to only one month of the year. Since most evidence points to the fact that the first humans were Africans, we are the people with the longest, most storied chronicle of existence on this planet. When I advocate studying our history, I am not encouraging the Western pedagogical paradigm where we study isolated dates, facts and happening as if they occurred in a total vacuum unaffected by anything happening elsewhere in the world.
World history is the history of the people of the world.
Studying the world in a panoramic fashion allows us to compare, analyze what was going on simultaneously within any given time frame. For example using a global paradigm we will see that when human settlements and high culture were being built in Africa, Mesopotamia, India, China and the Pacific Islands, Caucasoid Cro-Magnons had not yet made their appearance in Southern Europe. Black history is world history given the fact that the first humans were black and brown. We have nothing to be ashamed of. We come from profound, proficiently productive people.