2025 Black History Month Events and Resources

1.20.2025

2025 Black History Month Events and Resources

By Sudha Kamath

February is Black History Month. UVA Health Office of Diversity and Community Engagement (ODCE) has announced our 2025 theme as African Americans and Labor: Acknowledging Our Contributions Across UVA Health "to focus 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."

Supporting our UVA Health strategic plan goal of cultivating healthy communities and belonging for all through community engagement and healthy equity initiatives — ODCE is offering this list below of events and self-directed resources. Please save the dates, bookmark this web page, and check back for updates:

Events

Black History Month Opening Celebration: African Americans and Labor: Acknowledging Our Contributions Across UVA Health | Feb. 7, 12-1 p.m. | Pinn Hall 2ABC | Registration Required (link TBA) | Lunch will be served. Keynote speaker Rudolph Beverly, Manager, UVA Health Transportation and Distribution.
UVA Health Storytellers | Feb. 10, 12-1 p.m. | Zoom Registration Required (link pending) | Host and guest speaker TBA.
Diversity Dialogue | Feb. 17, 12-1 p.m. | Zoom Registration Required (link pending) | Host and guest speaker TBA.
University Medical Center Tour | Feb. 21, 11:30 a.m-1 p.m. | Registration Required (link pending)
Memorial to Enslaved Laborers Tour | Feb. 24, 12-1 p.m. | Registration Required (link pending) | See the permanent tribute to enslaved individuals and families who built and maintained the University of Virginia. Recorded virtual tour available now.
DEI Book of The Month Discussion: “Trauma and Race: A Path to Well-Being” | Feb. 27, 12-1 p.m. | Registration Required (link pending) | Guest Speaker Rev. Micah McCreary, President, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Jersey. Co-facilitated by UVA Health's Kimberley Barker, MLS, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, and Melody M. Pannell, DMin., MSW, M.Div., MACE, GC, Director, ODCE.
Community Conversations: Growing Up in Charlottesville | Feb. 27, 5-7 p.m. | Mt. Zion First African Baptist Church | Co-facilitated by UVA Health's Jackie Martin, MPH, CDM, Director, Community Partnerships and Health Equity, and Melody M. Pannell, DMin., MSW, M.Div., MACE, GC, Director, ODCE.