Sacramento City College Celebrates Black History Month

February is Black History Month and the theme for 2025 is African Americans and Labor.

From the Association for the Study of African American Life 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."

Beginning in February, a series of events are planned across the Los Rios colleges to highlight and celebrate the potent impact of this work.