This Black History Month, join Queens Public Library in honoring the powerful legacy of Black labor and its central role in shaping American history and culture.

Our 2025 theme, African Americans and Labor, highlights the profound ways that work—whether free or unfree, skilled or unskilled, vocational or voluntary—has intersected with the collective experiences of Black people.

We’re honoring the laborers, union organizers, and activists who have tirelessly fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and racial and economic equity, paving the way for social justice and progress across industries.

Browse our curated booklists, enjoy our all-ages programs, watch wonderful movies, and much more, this February and beyond!

Our Black History Month 2025 Journal features important milestones in the history of Black Labor in America; daily prompts you can use to think about the past, present, and future of Black History and Black Labor; and more.

Pick up a copy at your local library, or download it here.