Black History Creative Expression Contest
2025 THEME
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.
Details
The contest is open to any Jr. or Sr. High School student attending or living in the Tri-Town during the 2025 school year.
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Entries can be of any medium but no larger than 16 x 20 in size.
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Please indicate your name, school, age, and grade on the backside of your art.
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All entries can be dropped off during regular library hours.
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Entries will be displayed for the entire month of February
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Deadline for submission is January 30 at 4:00 pm.
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Winners will be announced and cash prizes distributed at the opening reception in the Mattapoisett Library Community Room on Saturday, February 8
Email info@tritownagainstracism.org with questions.