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Black History Month
February 1 - March 1
Black History Month is celebrated each year in the United States during the month of February. Since its origins in the 1920s, Black History Month has been assigned a theme.
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
For those interested in the study of identity and ideology, an exploration of ASALH’s Black History themes is itself instructive. Over the years, the themes reflect changes in how people of African descent in the United States have viewed themselves, the influence of social movements on racial ideologies, and the aspirations of the black community.
You can find a list of Black History Month themes dating back to 1928 here: ASALH, Founders of Black History Month
