CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

Woodson also founded Associated Publishers, which, in addition to publishing the Journal of Negro History, prepared kits for teachers at all educational levels. Woodson took advantage of the contradictions built into de jure segregation to reach the majority of African American school children in their segregated schools.

It’s impossible to celebrate Black History Month without highlighting the accomplishments of a Waco man who went above and beyond the call of duty to defend our country. Doris Miller was the first African-American recipient of the Navy Cross — for his display of extraordinary bravery during the

We’re looking at the business world for Black History Month, what it means to be a black owned business and how much that’s changed over the years. “So we just have to continue to highlight it and just break those barriers because that’s why black business owners have had challenges,

A cast of about 45 people, mostly youth, took the stage in “When the Mirror Shifts,” a play incorporating step team performances, in the eleventh annual African-American Parent Network’s Black

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2025 Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor."

February is Black History Month, set aside to honor the history of African-Americans. February was chosen to also honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, whose birthdays are this month.