Black History Month 2025
SPC Black History Month
This year's theme: African Americans and Labor
"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." - ASALH: Association for the Study of African American Life and History -
Source: https://asalh.org/
St. Philip's College is celebrating Black History Month (BHM) beginning February 1, 2025. The 2025 schedule features events for students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community. The diverse schedule of programs and events strives to motivate, inspire and enlighten the SPC community in honor of National Black History Month.
Black History Month Events
BHM: Reflection Question
Visit AlamoExperience and comment what Black History Month means to you.
Date: Feb. 1 - 28, 2025
Location: AlamoExperience
President's Lecture Series (PLS): Victor Blackwell, CNN
Date: Feb. 4, 2025
Showings: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: MLK: Watson Fine Arts Center (WFAC)
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History of HBCUs Film
Join us as we learn about the history of HBCUs.
Date: Feb. 6, 2025
Time: 9:45 a.m. - 3 pm
Location: MLK: Turbon Student Center (TSC)
BHM Making Black America: Episodes 1-2
Join us as for a viewing of the PBS Special, Making Black America: Episodes 1-2
Date: Feb. 13, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: MLK: Center for Learning Resources (CLR), First Floor
Soul Food Taste
St. Philip's College Culinary students will prepare soul food dishes.
Date: Feb. 18, 2025
Time: 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Location: Tourism, Hospital and Culinary Arts (THCA) Building, 4th Floor
BHM Making Black America: Episodes 3-4
Join us as for a viewing of the PBS Special, Making Black America: Episodes 3-4
Date: Feb. 18, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
Location: MLK: Center for Learning Resources (CLR), First Floor
Spoken Word
Join us for a spoken word event in the Turbon Student Center.
Date: Feb. 19, 2025
Time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: MLK: Turbon Student Center (TSC)
Voices of the Students
Join us for a panel discussion, "Voices of the Students." The student panel will share their experiences and respond to questions.
Date: Feb. 26, 2025
Showings: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Location: MLK: Turbon Student Center (TSC)