TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Supervisor Mulheren
MEETING DATE: February 25, 2025
DEPARTMENT CONTACT:
Mo Mulheren
PHONE:
707-463-4441
ITEM TYPE: Consent Agenda
TIME ALLOCATED FOR ITEM: N/A
AGENDA TITLE:
title
Adoption of Proclamation Recognizing February 2025 as African American/Black History Month in Mendocino County
(Sponsor: Supervisor Mulheren)
End
RECOMMENDED ACTION/MOTION:
recommendation
Adopt Proclamation recognizing February 2025 as African American/Black History Month in Mendocino County; and authorize Chair to sign same.
End
PREVIOUS BOARD/BOARD COMMITTEE ACTIONS:
The Board routinely adopts proclamations recognizing various events in Mendocino County.
SUMMARY OF REQUEST:
Since 1976, every American president has designated February as Black History Month and endorsed a specific theme.
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.
Considering Black people's work through the widest perspectives provides versatile and insightful platforms for examining Black life and culture through time and space. In this instance, the notion of work constitutes compensated labor in factories, the military, government agencies, ...
Click here for full text