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On 2 February 2017, President Trump issued a proclamation honoring February as African-American History Month: Web sites such as the TMZ gossip site noticed that President Trump's proclamation used the term African-American History Month instead of Black History Month and published an item stating that he had changed the name of the month-long observance. TMZ even went as far as stating that every U.S. president since 1976 had designated February as Black History Month ... Same sentiment, different name? Although it's true that President Trump used the term African-American History Month in his proclamation, it's disingenuous to say that he renamed the observance or to suggest that he was the first president to apply that terminology. In fact, the terms Black History Month and African-American History Month have been nearly interchangeable since President Gerald Ford issued the first proclamation concerning the observance. President Ford used the term Black History Month in 1976, but Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and George W. Bush all used the term National African American History month in at least one of their yearly proclamations. Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, used a combination of the two terms and honored National Afro-American (Black) History Month. Legislation concerning the month-long observance has also gone back and forth between the two descriptors. In 1996, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution commemorating Black History Month and contributions of African-American United States Senators, but when Congress passed a similar measure in 1986 designating February as a national month of observance, they employed the term Black (Afro-American) History Month. TMZ edited their article to state that Donald Trump, turns out, did not officially change Black History Month to National African American History Month ... it's been that way for decades.
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