Black History Month

February 2025: African Americans and Labor

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has announced that the national theme for Black History Month 2025 is African Americans and Labor. It 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. 

As part of FIT’s Black History Month activities, we will present research and other works of faculty and staff that are relevant to this topic. Programming on the theme will come from within our own community and will be presented during the month of February.

Programming may range from panel discussions and interviews to exhibitions of art, literature, and poetry to research material and white papers—any medium that allows us to come together as a college community to discuss, better understand, remember, and celebrate African Americans and Labor.

Most of FIT's Black History Month programming is for the FIT community only. Individual events that are open to the public will be noted below. After some programs have aired, they will be available on-demand and posted here. 

The full schedule of Black History Month 2025 activities will be posted shortly.