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

February is Black History Month and we've rounded up 120 inspiring Black History Month quotes from civil rights icons including Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois. These ...

A Black community leader on parenting during the rollback of diversity initiatives in the public and private sectors.

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created ...

to help with Black History Month lessons. "So many places are scrubbing language and telling people to be careful,’’ said Deborah Menkart, executive director of Teaching for Change.

Muhammad operates the Torchlight Academy Black History tours year-round, especially during black history month and Juneteenth. He says the words etched in stone is a sign that delineates segregation, ...

Teaching and learning Black history is a collective responsibility. It is never acceptable to put the onus solely on Black educators.

it is for all people. "If you're in an environment and everybody in the environment is white, you need Black History Month more than ever because you need to understand that the world, even though ...

it is for all people. "If you're in an environment and everybody in the environment is white, you need Black History Month more than ever because you need to understand that the world, even though ...