Black History Month begins in the US

This February, the US is celebrating Black History Month, an annual event to honor the contributions Black Americans have made to the nation, including the fight for equality and justice. The theme for 2025 is“African Americans and Labor,” selected by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). The theme was chosen to recognize the many ways that work—free and paid, skilled and unskilled—is at the center of much of Black history and culture. Carter G. Woodson, who founded the group that would become the ASALH, first established a week for celebrating Black history in 1926. He chose a week in February that included the birthdays of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), a leader of the movement to abolish slavery, and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the US President who…

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