2025 Black History Month Program Offerings

 The University invites faculty, staff and students to attend this year's programming in celebration of Black History Month, featuring a variety of cross-departmental events in connection with this year's theme "African Americans and Labor."

The 2025 Black History Month theme highlights the significant contributions of Black workers across industries and the impact of labor on their experiences. It explores both skilled and unskilled labor, voluntary and involuntary work, emphasizing Black labor's role in shaping the economy and infrastructure. Additionally, it examines the connection between organized labor movements and the fight for Black workers' rights and social justice.

We look forward to the University community's participation at the upcoming campus events from Feb. 1 - 28.

• Awareness Month Table Sit: Black History Month 2025 Theme: "African Americans and Labor," Monday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m.- 2 p.m., DeNaples Campus Center, first floor.
  Sponsored by the Cultural Centers.
  
  
• “In the Shadow of the Cross: Excavating the Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States” with Dr. Shannen Dee Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of history of the University of Dayton, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 5 p.m., Moskovitz Theater, DeNaples Center, room 401
  Sponsored by the Jesuit Center.
  
  
• Black History Month Film Series: All movies are at 7 p.m. in the Pearn Auditorium, Brennan Hall, room 228. 
  Sponsored by the Weinberg Memorial Library and Louis Stanley Brown Black Student Union.
  
  "The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster," Monday, Feb. 10
  "Beauty Shop," Monday, Feb. 24
  

• Social Networking and Alumni Panel: Wednesday, Feb.19.
  Sponsored by the Cultural Centers, Office of Alumni Relations and The Roche Family Center for Career Development.
   
  • Social networking with students, 5 p.m., DeNaples Center, fourth floor, room 405.
  • Panel conversation and Q&A, 6 p.m., DeNaples Center, fourth floor ballroom, room 407
    
    

• BSU Freedom Fest, Saturday, Feb. 22 at 9 p.m., DeNaples Center, fourth floor ballroom, room 407
  Sponsored by the Louis Stanley Brown Black Student Union and the Black Studies Concentration.
  
  
  
• "Who Built that? The Impact of Black Innovators," Wednesday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m., DeNaples Center, fourth floor, room 405
  Sponsored by the Cultural Centers and the Louis Stanley Brown Black Student Union.