February is National African American History Month, popularly called Black History Month, and has been observed nationally since 1976 when President Ford "urged Americans to “seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”" source For more about the proclamations and legislation related the Black History Month, visit the :aw Library of Congress' Black History Month: A Commemorative Observances Legal Research Guide.
The Black History Month 2024 theme, “African American and the Arts,” explores "the many impacts Black Americans have had on visual arts, music, cultural movements, and more."
Online Resources
The National Museum of African American History & Culture
Florida Humanities' African American History Archive: An Audio, Print, and Video Bibliography
The official African American History Month site features online exhibits and collections, videos, and images
National Black History Milestones from the History Channel
African American History at the National Archives
African American History collections online at the Library of Congress
Images of Florida's Black History from the Florida Memory Project
Florida's African American History Trail
10 National Parks that Honor Black History
Florida's African American History - Resources from the State Library of Florida
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross - Website intended to support the PBS series of the same name, it provides videos and 100 essays
poet.org's Black History Month page features poems about the Black experience by both classic and contemporary poets, videos, essays on black history and poetics & letters
30 Films that Celebrate Black Joy and Resilience
We Out Here is "a space that celebrates the breadth and diversity of Black women year-round" with content provided by Black influencers.
"This four-hour series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people-beyond the reach of the “White gaze.” Gates takes viewers into an extraordinary world that showcases Black people’s ability to collectively prosper, defy white supremacy and define Blackness in ways that transformed America itself."
Current students and employee can stream this movie for free from Films on Demand.
