The 2025 National theme, “African Americans and Labor” focused 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 African Americans. Studying African Americans’ labor and labor struggles allows for new interpretations and reinterpretations of African American heritage and its continuing evolution. (asalh.org)
 

Curated and presented by Selvin Walker, Junctions' 2025 Black History Month Commemoration, “Cornerstones and Pillars” held at the Lakeshore Mall in Sebring, Florida was a visual and oral exhibit, highlighting National, and some of Highlands County’s past and present African American entrepreneurs, labor contributors, and supporters. Exhibit features included four Guest Speakers, Entrepreneur and Labor Photographic Profiles, Literature and Artisan Displays, Interactive Oral History Video and more. The exhibit was intentional in encouraging broad reflections on intersections between African American’s work and their workplaces in all their iterations and key moments.

Results: The exhibit ran from February 8 - 28, 2025, with over 700 visitors touring the exhibit.