African Americans and Labor-2025
Honoring Black Heritage During Black History Month
The origin of Black History Month began in 1915, half a century after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the United States, and grew out of “Negro History Week,” the creation of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African American; and whereas with the Civil Rights Movement and a growing awareness of black identity, Black History Month or National African American History Month evolved to an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history.
About the 2025 Black History Theme from Association For The Study Of African American Life And History asalh.org PDF
Extend your knowledge of the contributions of our African American colleagues through resources like this:
Yuba Community College District Resolution Honoring Black History Month-2025 Resolution
Black History Month Activities:
Local Events
From Barbers’ Row to Beale Air Force Base: Black History in Yuba-Sutter (Free), Located at The Yuba Sutter County Museum (Open Wednesday-Friday 9-5 and Saturday 12-4)
Black History Month Family 5k Run/Walk! ($22.00), Located at 191 Lathrop Way Suite A, Sacramento, CA US 95815
Yuba College Events
Black History Month Campus Posters
Learn more about influential Black people from all periods of U.S. history. Located in various parts of campus.
Yuba College Departments Honor Black History Month
Visit programs and offices and view their tributes to African Americans and Labor.
Virtual Museum: Slavery and Freedom
Thurgood Movie
Celebrate Black History Month with a showing of ” The Thurgood Movie” a production of the critically acclaimed play starring Laurence Fishburne as the nation’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice, 12 pm- 2 pm, Room 201, Marysville Campus
Celebrate with us by adding our Zoom background during your meetings between February 1 through February 28
Recommended Films/Documentaries by Yuba College (available now on YC Kanopy)
· American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
· King in the Wilderness: The Final Years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
· Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Recommended Books by Yuba College (available for check-out at YC Marysville Library)
- Hidden figures: the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Shetterly et al
- Overworked and undervalued: black women and success in America edited by Davis & Bowman
- Slavery by another name: the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Blackmon
- Cotton and race in the making of America: the human costs of economic power by Dattel
- A slave no more: two men who escaped to freedom: including their own narratives of emancipation by Blight et al
- Ride or die: a feminist manifesto for the well-being of Black women by Hubbard
- Half American: the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad by Delmont
- Eye on the struggle: Ethel Payne, the first lady of the Black Press by Morris
- A new world of labor: the development of plantation slavery in the British Atlantic by Newman
- Farming while Black: Soul Fire Farm’s practical guide to liberation on the land by Penniman
Resources local and national:
- In Sacramento: Resources Safe Black Space
- Black and African American Student Success | California Community Colleges – Enroll Today (icangotocollege.com)
- Scholarships available to Black Students
Basic Needs Center
Basic Needs will be providing ingredients, spices, and recipes for Jambalaya and Gumbo.