Black History Month Exhibit

Overview

“African Americans and Labor – Cornerstones and Pillars”

Visit the Black History Month Exhibit in Lakeshore Mall, located inside the mall across from Planet Fitness! This exhibit is free and open to the public daily from 12:00PM – 6:00PM from February 8 – 28, 2025.

Considering Black people’s work through the widest perspectives provides versatile and insightful platforms for examining Black life and culture through time and space.

WORK– The notion of work constitutes compensated labor in factories, the military, government agencies, office buildings, public service, and private homes.  It also includes the community building of social justice activists, voluntary workers serving others, and institution building in churches, community groups, and social clubs and organizations.  Understanding Black labor and its impact in all these multivariate settings is integral to understanding Black people, their histories, lives, and cultures.

The 2025 National 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 African Americans. Studying African Americans’ labor and labor struggles allows for new interpretations and reinterpretations of African American heritage and its continuing evolution. (ASALH)

Promoted and presented by Junctions, the 2025 Lakeshore Mall, “African Americans and Labor – Cornerstones and Pillars” is a visual and oral exhibit, highlighting National, and some of Highlands County’s past and present African American entrepreneurs, labor contributors, and supporters.  Exhibit features include Guest Speakers, Entrepreneur and Labor Photographic Profiles, Literature and Artisan Displays, Oral History, Video and more. The exhibit is intentional in encouraging broad reflections on intersections between African American’s work and their workplaces in all their iterations and key moments.

To learn more about the student essay contest (deadline February 8, 2025), click here.

For more information, visit www.junctions.us/2025-black-history-month.