Black History Month 2025: “Books Unbound” a podcast by Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay

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)

Today we will be highlighting Books Unbound A podcast diving into books about race and identity through in-depth interviews.

BOOKS UNBOUND is a book podcast hosted by Ariel Bissett and Raeleen Lemay. They share what they are reading and all about their bookish lives. The podcast started in 2019 and releases new episodes every Monday. The podcast is available everywhere including as a video podcast on YouTube.

Stay tuned for a new work tomorrow!