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Black History Month
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, vocational and voluntary – intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Indeed, work is at the very center of much of Black history and culture. Be it the traditional agricultural labor of enslaved Africans that fed Low Country colonies, debates among Black educators on the importance of vocational training, self-help strategies and entrepreneurship in Black communities, or organized labor’s role in fighting both economic and social injustice, Black people’s work has been transformational throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora. The 2025 Black History Month theme, “African Americans and Labor,” sets out to highlight and celebrate the potent impact of this work.
~Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
This Association was founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, founder of Black History Month in 1926.
A virtual festival will be held by ASALH throughout the month of February. Events can be viewed in their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh13walFEhshtIgjN890_bg
See Emerson College’s list of books on Black Labor Leaders
https://guides.library.emerson.edu/c.php?g=1292917&p=10742991#s-lg-box-33851895
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is celebrating with a yearlong digital campaign about African American Army Nurses who served in WWII.
Their celebration the 2025 theme can be found at Invisible Changemakers of Industry, with a focus on enslaved women, and women who broke boundaries under Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/moments/black-history-month
The Equal Justice Initiative is an excellent website for educational, advocacy and impactful information about racial justice in America. There is news, videos, and info about their Legacy Sites in Montgomery, AL. https://eji.org/
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