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THE 2025 BLACK HISTORY THEME IS
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND LABOR

The 2025 Black History Month 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 Black people. Indeed, work is at the very center of much of Black history and culture. Be it the traditional agricultural labor of enslaved Africans that fed Low Country colonies, debates among Black educators on the importance of vocational training, self-help strategies and entrepreneurship in Black communities, or organized labor’s role in fighting both economic and social injustice, Black people’s work has been transformational throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora.

The 2025 Black History Month theme, “African Americans and Labor“, sets out to highlight and celebrate the potent impact of this work.

Penny Little
AAUW Ashland Newsletter Editor


POSTCARDS FROM THE ROGUE VALLEY

Barb Cervone, AAUW member, writes a blog, Postcards from the Rogue Valley. Her most recent post, “The Hill We Climb”, honors Black women here in Oregon. Here is the link.


“Big Ideas” Talks To Generate Conversations
2024-2025 Calendar

AAUW/Ashland & Jackson County Library Services, present
monthly discussions, 4:00-5:30 pm at the Ashland Library

—February 4, 2025—       CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW
“The Teenage Brain: Impacts on Despair, Homelessness
& Substance Abuse.”

Mary Ferrell (left), Executive Director, Maslow Project;
Lacey Corbett (right), MA, Clinical Supervisor, Maslow Project

 

—March 4, 2025—
“Oregon Gun Laws Still Under Fire? An Update on Measure 114.”
Nathan Sickler (left), Jackson County Sheriff;
Tighe O’Meara (right), Ashland Police Chief

 

 


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