Black History Month Resources: Overview

February 3, 11:00 am-1:00 pm

• Trivia and music with the Divine Nine of TU!
  • Join us on the first floor of the student union for music and trivia with the historically black sororities of TU! 

February 6, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm

• Association of Black Collegians (A.B.C.) Black History Month General Body Meeting
  • Come join the Association of Black Collegians for food, drinks and A.B.C. themed Family Feud for our General Body meeting to kick off Black History Month!

February 12, 5:30 pm-7:00 pm

• Black Education and Experience Fair (B.E.E.F)
  • ​​​​​​​Enjoy food, drinks and get educated on black history, art, music and culture with ABC at our Black Excellence and Experience fair.

February 14, 10:00 am-2:00 pm

• Frederick Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon
  • ​​​​​​​Join McFarlin Library in a transcribe-a-thon honoring Frederick Douglass and African American History. There will be cake!

February 20, 5:00 pm-6:30 pm

• Open Mic Night with the Assocation of Black Collegains
  • ​​​​​​​Join the Assocation of Black Collegains for an Open Mic Night! Listen to music, jokes, monologues, poems and more with food and drinks!

February 25, 11:30 am-1:00 pm & 5:00 pm-8:00 pm

• Soul Food Soiree in Pat Case
  • ​​​​​​​It's time for The Association of Black Collegians annual Soul Food Soiree in Pat Case for lunch and dinner! Come enjoy some soul food and music!

February 4, 6:00 pm-8:00 pm

• Exhibit: African Americans and Labor
  • Location: Rudisill Regional Library
  • The exhibit will feature information about African Americans and the Labor Movement. Come and see the exhibit and enjoy activities, food and fun!

February 13, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm

• Free Film Screening: "The Killing Floor"
  • Location: Circle Cinema
  • The African American Resource Center and Circle Cinema are hosting a screening of The Killing Floor, starring Damien Leake and Tulsa native Alfre Woodard.

Nationally, February is recognized as Black History Month in the United States.  Dr. Carter Woodson is known as the "Father of Black History" because of his instrumental role in establishing Black History Month.

"Recognizing the dearth of information on the accomplishments of Blacks in 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).  Under Woodson’s pioneering leadership, the Association created research and publication outlets for Black scholars with the establishment of the Journal of Negro History (1916) and the Negro History Bulletin (1937), which garners a popular public appeal.  In 1926, Dr. Woodson initiated the celebration of Negro History Week, which corresponded with the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, this celebration was expanded to include the entire month of February, and today Black History Month garners support throughout the country as people of all ethnic and social backgrounds discuss the Black experience."

Source: "Origins of Black History Month," ASALH

Each year, Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) chooses a theme that celebrates an aspect of the African American experience and history. 

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.

Source: asalh.org

BlackPast

• BlackPast is an online reference center dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.

Google Arts and Culture: Black History and Culture

• Explore the history, arts, and culture of Black experience in the United States.

JSTOR: 23 Freely Accessible Black History Collections

• Explore freely accessible image and primary source collections that focus on Black History.

National Museum of African American History and Culture: Searchable Museum

• The National Museum of African American History and Culture's Searchable Museum is a place to explore history and culture through an African American lens.

NYPL: Digital Schomburg

• Digital Schomburg provides access to trusted information, interpretation, and scholarship on the global Black experience through online materials at the Schomburg Center created and curated by their staff and librarians.

U.S. National Archives: African American History

• The Archives holds a wealth of material documenting the Black experience. This page highlights these resources online, in programs, and through traditional and social media.