"The theme, “African Americans and Labor,” intends to encourage broad reflections on intersections between Black people’s
work and their workplaces in all their iterations and key moments, themes, and events in Black history and culture across time and space and throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora. Studying African Americans’ labor and labor struggles are important organizing foci for new interpretations and reinterpretations of the Black past, present, and future. Such new considerations and reconsiderations are even more significant as the historical forces of racial oppression gather new and renewed strength in the 21st century."

From the Executive Summary prepared by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).  To read the full one-page Executive Summary see: 2025-Black-History-Theme-Executive-Summary-1