Every October since 1987, folks across the U.K. have celebrated Black History Month as a way of honoring the nation’s best and brightest in politics, music, art and literature, as well as those who’ve forced Britain to take a hard look at its racist past — and present. Things have gotten a bit sticky this year, however, as the cultural event has found itself at the center of an appropriation row, as activists decry the move by several local councils to scrap the name altogether and instead use the month to celebrate Britons of all races and ethnicities, according to The Guardian.