Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans.
This year’s theme is 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.”
Learn more about Black History Month
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Smithsonian.com
History Channel
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Interesting reads
What Octavia Butler saw on Feb. 1, 2025, three decades ago
AARP.org