CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 2025 Black History Month theme is “African Americans and Labor."

Why is Black History Month in February? The commemoration of important Black Americans and events happens largely during the shortest month of the year.

During the Black History Month ceremony, which preserved a long-standing and bipartisan White House tradition, Trump omitted any mention of his anti-DEI efforts.

President Trump arrived at a packed White House celebration alongside Tiger Woods to a roaring crowd. The event came as he has eviscerated federal programs aimed at combating inequality in America.

President Donald Trump commemorated Black History Month at the White House alongside golfer Tiger Woods weeks after signing an executive order ending diversity programs and the Defense Department declaring that “identity months” are “dead.

The ceremony comes as the Trump administration has pushed to eradicate diversity programs from the government, which some agencies have interpreted to end the observance of identity-based months.

In honor of Black History Month, MLB Network looks back at the Black players who have worn an Atlanta Braves uniform throughout the years

February is Black History Month, set aside to honor the history of African-Americans. February was chosen to also honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln, whose birthdays are this month.