The following are some examples of Black History Month Events taking place at museums and historical societies across New York State. Check back often for updates.
Hands-on Black History: Oysters!
Saturday, February 1, 2025
1:00pm
King Manor Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/01/handson-black-history-oysters
Black Staatsburg: The Gilded Age Black Community of Staatsburg
Saturday, February 1, 2025
3:00pm
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
In-Person event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=25-42451.0
Celebrating Black History Month
Saturday, February 1, 2025
10:00am
Hempstead Lake State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=31-42129.0
Black History Month: Textile Arts Workshop
Saturday, February 1, 2025
11:00am
Marine Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/01/marine-park-alliance-presents-black-history-month-textile-arts-workshop
Embattled: The Triumphs & Trials of Black New York Soldiers
Saturday, February 1, 2025 - 12:00 to Friday, February 28, 2025
Exhibit
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/events/2025
Black Staatsburg: The Gilded Age Black Community of Staatsburg
Sunday, February 2, 2025
1:00pm
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=25-42447.0
Favored by their Custom: The Leadership of Schenectady’s Early Black Barbers
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
12:00pm
Schenectady County Historical Society
In-Person Event
More information: https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/favored-by-their-custom-the-leadership-of-schenectadys-early-black-barbers/
The Niagara Movement: The Early Battle for Civil Rights Film Screening
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
6:00pm
Buffalo History Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://buffalohistory.org/event/the-niagara-movement-the-early-battle-for-civil-rights-film-screening/
Black History Month: The Life of Rep. Shirley Chisholm
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
6:30pm
Greece Public Library
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://greecepl.librarycalendar.com/event/archives-talk-shirley-chisholm-15835
New Research on Enslavement in Upper Manhattan: A DyckmanDISCOVERED Update
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
12:00pm
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/new-research-on-enslavement-in-upper-manhattan-a-dyckmandiscovered-update/
The Power of Beauty: Rethinking Black Women’s Activism
Thursday, February 6, 2025
6:00pm
New York Historical
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/power-of-beauty-rethinking-black-womens-activism?date=2025-02-06
Black History Month: Nature Poetry
Saturday, February 8, 2025
1:00pm
Fort Greene Park Visitor Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/08/black-history-month-nature-poetry
Black History Month: Science Pioneers
Saturday, February 8, 2025
10:00am
Nissequogue River State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=110-42350.0
SPOMA Annual Wreath Laying
Saturday, February 8, 2025
11:00am
SPOMA
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.timeshudsonvalley.com/stories/spoma-committee-to-host-annual-wreath-laying-ceremony,154700?
Black History Month: Brooklyn and the Abolitionist Movement
Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:00pm
Brooklyn Bridge Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/09/black-history-month-brooklyn-and-the-abolitionist-movement
Black History Month: Seneca Village
Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:00pm
Central Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/09/black-history-month-seneca-village
Black History Month: Langston Hughes and Love Potion Brews
Sunday, February 9, 2025
1:00pm
Crotona Nature Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/09/black-history-month-langston-hughes-and-love-potion-brews
Reckoning with Ancestral Sins: A Conversation Between Descendants of Slaveholders and Slaves in the Hudson Valley
Sunday, February 9, 2025
2:00pm
Irvington Historical Society
In-Person Event
More information: https://irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/events/reckoning-with-ancestral-sins/
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: A Conversation About the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in New York
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
12:00pm
Olana State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=23-42437.0
The Harlem African Burial Ground: History Beneath Our Feet
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
12:00pm
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/the-harlem-african-burial-ground-history-beneath-our-feet/
The Legacy of Former "Colored" School No. 4, a talk by Eric K. Washington
Thursday, February 13, 2025
6:00pm
Van Cortlandt House Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/13/the-legacy-of-former-colored-school-no-4
The Rising Generation: The 19th-Century Black New Yorkers Who Changed a Nation
Thursday, February 13, 2025
6:30pm
New York Historical
In-Person and Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/the-rising-generation-the-19th-century-black-new-yorkers-who-changed-a-nation?date=2025-02-13
HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Thursday, February 13, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13585738
The Handbook of Black Librarianship – Past, Present, and Future
Friday, February 14, 2025
2:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13960861
Those Who Served: The Enslaved and Paid Servants of Clermont
Saturday, February 15, 2025
2:00pm
Clermont State Historic Site
In-Person Event
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=16-42432.0
Farmhouse Family Day: Fabrics of the Diaspora
Saturday, February 15, 2025
11:00am
Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/15/farmhouse-family-day-fabrics-of-the-diaspora
Black History Month: Science Fiction and the Natural World
Sunday, February 16, 2025
4:30pm
Van Cortlandt Nature Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/16/black-history-month-science-fiction-and-the-natural-world
A Protest History of the United States
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
1:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13841874
Black History Month: Art of Stephen Towns
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
10:00am
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42345.0
Mid-Winter Break: Blast Off- Discovering Space and Black History
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
10:00am
Idlewild Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/18/midwinter-break-blast-off-discovering-space-and-black-history1
Explore Historical Black Newspaper Databases
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
1:00pm
New York State Library
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13702503
Painting for the Culture
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
5:00pm
Thomas Jefferson Recreation Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/19/painting-for-the-culture
Mid-Winter Break: Blast Off- Discovering Space and Black History
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
10:00am
Idlewild Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/19/midwinter-break-blast-off-discovering-space-and-black-history
Searching for Timbuctoo Viewing and Discussion with NYS Archivist, Brian Keough and Director, Paul Miller
Thursday, February 20, 2025
2:30pm
New York State Archives Partnership Trust
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/events/2025
Black History Month: Space Explorers
Thursday, February 20, 2025
5:45pm
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42346.0
Mid-Winter Break: Blast Off- Discovering Space and Black History
Thursday, February 20, 2025
10:00am
Idlewild Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/20/midwinter-break-blast-off-discovering-space-and-black-history
The Journey to Freedom Project – Preserving Local Stories from the Civil Rights Movement
Friday, February 21, 2025
10:00am
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13967973
New York International Children’s Film Festival: Celebrating Black Stories
Saturday, February 22, 2025
2:00pm
Staten Island Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/new-york-international-childrens-film-festival-celebrating-black-stories/
Black History Month: Art of Horrace Pippin
Saturday, February 22, 2025
10:30am
Caleb Smith State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=124-42336.0
Black History Month: Black Pioneers in STEM
Sunday, February 23, 2025
1:00pm
Lewis H. Latimer House
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/23/black-history-month-black-pioneers-in-stem
Black History Month: Audre Lorde
Sunday, February 23, 2025
11:00am
Silver Lake Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/02/23/black-history-month-audre-lorde
Rochester's Tuskegee Airman: Leland "Sticky" Pennington
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
2:00pm
Greece Public Library
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://greecepl.librarycalendar.com/event/rochesters-tuskegee-airman-leland-sticky-pennington-19126
Envisioning Seneca Village
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
12:00pm
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://dyckmanfarmhouse.org/event/envisioning-seneca-village/
