Black History Month

This year marks the centennial of Black History commemorations in the United States. In alignment with this milestone, our theme—A Living Legacy: 100 Years of Learning, Leadership, and Impact—highlights how Black history is not only remembered, but actively shaping our world today.

The figures represented in this banner reflect three interconnected dimensions of that legacy.

Learning

Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall represents Learning through his lifelong commitment to education, legal scholarship, and constitutional understanding. As the first Black U.S. Supreme Court Justice, his work reminds us that learning is a powerful tool for challenging injustice, expanding opportunity, and reshaping systems.

Learning equips us to understand the past—and to change the future.

Leadership

Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. represents Leadership through his moral courage, vision, and ability to mobilize communities toward collective action. Through nonviolent protest, organizing mass movements, and advocating for civil rights legislation, he helped transform public consciousness and advance structural change in the United States.

Leadership turns knowledge into movement.

Impact

The Black Rosies
The Black Rosies represent Impact—the often-overlooked contributions of Black women who worked in factories, shipyards, and defense industries during World War II. Their labor was essential to the war effort and transformed economic opportunity for Black families, even as they faced discrimination at home.

Impact is the tangible difference people make when their work changes lives, communities, and history.

Together, these stories remind us that Black history is not confined to the past—it is learned, led, and lived every day.