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.
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the creation of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph, which was the first Black union to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor.
–ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE AND HISTORY®
Learn about the experiences of Black nurses in Virginia past and present from members of the Central Virginia Black Nurses Association. This is an official tie-in program to our annual Read Up Richmond author event.
Gellman Room – Main Library
2/16 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Join the Broad Rock Advisory Group to celebrate the black experience, past, present, and future!
Broad Rock Branch
2/22 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Visit Hull Street Branch for a book fair featuring Black-owned bookstores, publishers, and authors of color.
Hull Street Branch
2/25 3:00pm – 7:00pm
Weekend Film Fest: A Spike Lee Joint
Celebrate Black History Month with films by talented, prolific director and producer, Spike Lee.
West End Branch Saturday February 15th and Sunday February 16th.
Saturday, February 15

Rated R
Spike Lee (who also stars as Half-Pint) injects musical numbers into this tale of discord at an all-black college.

Rated R
Racial tensions grow in a Brooklyn neighborhood on the hottest day of the summer while everyone tries to cope with the heat. Spike Lee received an Oscar nomination for his screenplay.

Rated R
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
Sunday, February 16

Rated R
Spike Lee’s vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.

Rated R
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal’s brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
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