I love Black History Month. True, I grew up in Arizona, which was the last state in the union to observe a civil rights holiday by any name. And true, it ultimately took losing the 1993 Super Bowl (and all its associated economic benefits) to convince Arizona voters to enact ...

The view from Young Da-da's elementary school. ... not much. But he can pull together a little (true) honky remembrance in honor of Black History Month. Picture Young Honky Da-da schlumped on a huge couch watching, "The Bob Newhart Show," circa LON...

February is Black History Month in the United States, and the history of Blacks in this country is inseparable from the story of the civil rights movement. U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia was deeply involved in the struggle for equal rights, and he has signed on to publish his ...

As Black History Month enters its final weekend, I thought it might be interesting to bring up the subject of Benjamin Banneker. While there is some controversy about Banneker’s place in history, it seems not unreasonable to say that he was quite probably not only the first African-American geek, but ...

Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.” Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two. Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than everybody else. Surprised? So were authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman ...

The GeekDads are back with everyone who wasn’t watching the LOST season opener to talk about the iPad, and National Black History Month. Enjoy! GeekDad.com is the parenting blog at Wired.com, edited by Ken Denmead, Matt Blum and Chris Anderson. It is a community of like-minded geeky parents writing ...