Celebrate Black History throughout the season with performances like:

Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra with Branford Marsalis: Three-time GRAMMY Award-winning saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis joins the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra.

August Wilson’s Two Trains Running – The Acting Company returns with August Wilson’s Tony Award-winning play Two Trains Running. Set during the civil rights movement, The Acting Company brings to life Wilson’s vibrant characters and rich language in this tribute to the perseverance of those who make our country great, even when faced with overwhelming odds.

Angélique Kidjo – Five-time GRAMMY winner Angélique Kidjo presents her joyous voice, stage presence, and music. Named one of 2021’s “Most Influential People by TIME Magazine and one of the Guardian’s “Top 100 Most Inspiring Women in the World,” “Her music transcends mere danceability and instead possesses you with its rhythm” NPR.

And more, like: Virginia Opera: Loving v. Virginia, Dylan Triplett, The Comedy of Errors, Chloé Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies LIVE

Celebrate Black History Month with Smithsonian events, resources, exhibitions, and podcasts. The 2025 theme is “African Americans and Labor” with a focus on the various and profound ways that work of all kinds intersects with the collective experiences of Black people.

Barna’s report, Trends in the Black Church, shows that two-thirds of Black adults and 8 out of 10 Black churchgoers feel a sense of comfort through their connection with the Black church, viewing it as a space where they have control over their lives.

Throughout history, the Black church has been a beacon of resilience, courage and hope in the face of injustice in the United States. The faithful witness of Black evangelicals continues to stand as a powerful reminder that the Church is a transformative force for the gospel in America.

Join us on February 4, at 2:30 p.m. ET, for a free webinar on how Black evangelicals enrich the broader church in America. Co-hosted by the National Association of Evangelicals, Christianity Today and Wheaton College, this virtual roundtable will feature a panel of leaders who openly discuss the challenges Black evangelicals have faced, while offering a hopeful vision for Black evangelicalism.  

An important task of the maturing person is to seek understanding of how the various institutions we are a part of have shaped us—both in their unique gifts and in their unique brokenness. Click below to read more from David M. Bailey, CEO and founder of Arrabon.

History Channel resources for Black History Month.

Also known as African American History Month, Black History Month grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter C. Woodson and other prominent African Americans. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.

In honor of Black History Month, Lifeway Research shares the stories of four Black Americans who shared their faith with the world.

Take action and make your voice heard with the National Museum of African American History & Culture, this Black History Month. Join them in uplifting the humanity, innovation and vision of African American artists. Throughout February, take a journey organized around five weekly focus areas that celebrate the Black people who have used art as their platform for social justice.

Established on September 9, 1915, by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, ASALH is the Founder of Black History Month and carries forth the work of our founder, the Father of Black History.

ASALH continues his legacy of speaking a fundamental truth to the world–that Africans and peoples of African descent are makers of history and co-workers in what W. E. B. Du Bois called, “The Kingdom of Culture.” ASALH’s mission is to create and disseminate knowledge about Black History, to be, in short, the nexus between the Ivory Tower and the global public.

Black Voices is a curated video library of the teachings of best-selling Black authors, pastors, speakers and ministry leaders. You’ll recognize many of the Bible studies by prominent Black authors, and you won’t want to miss the life-changing sermon series from established and emerging voices.

In honor of Black History Month, we remember and celebrate the powerful work of God in and through the lives of influential African Americans. From enslaved Christians and abolitionists through the Jim Crow era to civil rights figures, the believers featured in these articles served as leaders in the church and powerfully impacted society.

Black History Month is a time to remember and study the contributions of black Americans to the history and culture of the United States. The Bible has played a significant role in the lives of black Americans. Join Museum of the Bible in a 10-day plan to discover how the Bible impacted people like Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks.

Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, The Who We Are Project founder Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.

This 2022 documentary can be rented on Amazon and other streaming services.

Since 1947, InterVarsity Press (IVP) has been publishing thoughtful Christian books that shape both the lives of readers and the cultures they inhabit. Throughout these seventy-five years, our books and authors have established a legacy of speaking boldly into important cultural moments, providing timeless tools for spiritual growth, and equipping Christians for a vibrant life of faith.

During Black History Month, we remember the steadfast leaders of the past. Yet, we also remember the Black leaders of today who continue to pave paths, create history, and conquer challenges through their intelligence, activism, and research.

Be a part of our gathering of creative and enthusiastic Black Christian leaders from various fields as they discuss the things that have inspired, challenged, and sometimes disappointed them as leaders. Their experiences in the arts, academia, and the church will impart valuable insights that can be applied in multiple fields, including leadership, service, and creativity.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. It was established by an Act of Congress in 2003, following decades of efforts to promote and highlight the contributions of African Americans. To date, the Museum has collected more than 40,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 individuals have become members. The Museum opened to the public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th museum of the Smithsonian Institution.

How should we live faithfully within a world created to be good and beautiful, and yet everywhere is marred by ugliness and injustice?

Jazz vocalist and composer Ruth Naomi Floyd joins The Trinity Forum podcast to discuss the intersection of music, creativity, and justice, and to help us think deeply about our role in repairing, re-envisioning, and creating new places of beauty, justice, and flourishing:

We know that art shapes and reshapes us and that it’s there in the cross of Jesus, I believe, where beauty and violence collided and beauty won. And so that act of loving someone…purposely trying to love someone, especially those that seem or are viewed or deemed unlovable, is…directly connected and intrinsically connected to our art making.

We hope you enjoy and are encouraged by Floyd’s artistic journey, how she finds beauty in the midst of suffering, and her vision for the role of love in creativity.

What is the Black church? What role has it played in the culture and liberation of Black Americans throughout US history?

Rev. Dr. Marshall Hatch takes viewers on a journey through the history and impact of the Black church in America, from the religion of white slaveholders passed to enslaved peoples to the role of the church today in the era of Black Lives Matter. He teaches on the Civil War, Reconstruction, the development of Black denominations due to segregation, prominent Black church leaders and theologians, the Civil Rights era, and the new time of racial reckoning in America today.

The Black church has guided culture, provided hope in hard times, and been the motivating and organizing force behind pushes for the rights of Black Americans. While church attendance is decreasing, Hatch contends that the Black church still has an important role to play in American life.