Black History Month is celebrated every February in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The 2025 Black History Month theme is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the significant role labor has played throughout the Black American experience,

Myths around Black History Month continue, Whitehead said, including the idea that the U.S. government purposely chose the shortest month of the year. In reality, Woodson chose February because two prominent figures in the civil rights movement — Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass — had birthdays in the week he chose.