In celebration of Black History Month, we’ll be highlighting a diverse range of books, music, and art all written by Black American artists and authors, all of which celebrate and prioritize the 2025 theme, “ African Americans and Labor”.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. (asalh.org)
Todays work is Fresh Air an NPR Radio Show with Tanya Mosley is titled: A new book celebrates the contributions of America’s Black working class
Listen to the show with this link: https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182475089/a-new-book-celebrates-the-contributions-of-americas-black-working-class#:~:text=%22Black%20Folk%3A%20The%20Roots%20Of,better%20pay%20and%20equal%20rights.
In Black Folk, Blair Kelley portrays generations of Black workers — Pullman porters, domestic laborers, USPS employees, COVID-19 essential workers — who have contributed to the nation’s prosperity.
Give it a listen! Stay tuned for a new work tomorrow!
