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From thought-provoking exhibits to powerful live performances, Black History Month in Alachua County offers opportunities to learn, reflect, and celebrate. Honor the legacy, culture, and achievements of Black leaders, artists, and trailblazers with this curated list of events and local resources.
Black History Month Events
Dr. Ronald Foreman Lecture Series: Fireside Chat with Bomani Jones at The Reitz Union
Wednesday, February 26, 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Join the African American Studies program on Race and Sport, which features Sports Analyst and Host Bomani Jones. This event is part of Dr. Ronald Foreman’s lecture series, an annual Black History Month event hosted by the African American Studies program. Admission is free.
Cultural Resources:
Black History Month Video Playlist
View more than 30 videos featuring Black community leaders, meaningful exhibits and more.
Alachua County Digital Black Heritage Trail
The Alachua County Digital Black Heritage Trail map and website aim to resist the systematic, century-long erasure and forced removal of Black life in Alachua County. Demonstrative of the resilience and resistance of Black place-making and institution-building, this map reflects the intergenerational memories of Black belonging in Alachua County.
Black History Month with the Alachua County Library District
View upcoming events at Alachua County Library District branch locations and check out a library staff selected book list.
Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection at the Harn Museum of Art
The nationally traveling exhibition from Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Comes to the Harn. Silver Linings: Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection highlights the works of masters, pioneers, and trailblazers who anchor the collection of the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman College has long been an important cultural hub. The historically Black liberal arts college for women began collecting objects in 1899, and in 1996 the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art opened with the mission to uplift art by and about women of the African diaspora.
Image details: Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953), “Color Real and Imagined,” 2014, archival inkjet print with silkscreen color blocks, 54 3/4 x 38 3/4 in. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Gift of Laural Shackelford.
Matheson History Museum Online Exhibition – We’re Tired of Asking: Black Thursday and Civil Rights at the University of Florida
This exhibition follows one slice of African American history in Gainesville, but certainly not all of Gainesville’s Black history. Our goal is to show the Civil Rights movement in Gainesville from the 1960s until the early 70s and how that affected the University of Florida’s racial atmosphere. In a great show of strength on April 15, 1971, Black students decided to take a stand in a protest at Tigert Hall on the UF campus. Their interaction with President Stephen O’Connell would change the course of the university forever.
Evergreen Cemetery Self-Guided Tour
401 SE 21st Ave., Gainesville, FL 32641
On-site honorary signage will indicate these gravesites for neighbors wishing to take a self-guided tour of the city’s only municipal cemetery, established in 1856. Explore the historic cemetery for a self-guided walking tour of African Americans located in the cemetery such as bluesman Willie Green, Sarah McKnight and many others.
