Black History Month 2023 begins today (October 1). Here Echo community reporter Patrick Graham discusses why it's important. Carter G Woodson is commonly known as the father of Black History; born in the 1870s in the USA to former enslaved parents. He was the founder of what was Negro History Week in 1926 which later expanded and was recognised as Black History Month in the 1970s. In the UK the first formal celebrations of Black History Month were around 1987 and unlike the USA, who hold theirs in February, in the UK it's held in October. The USA chose February...