Saturday, February 22, 2025,  12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST

The Westin Washington, DC Downtown, 999 9th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

ASALH is continuing traditions established by Dr. Woodson, including hosting an annual luncheon to highlight the Black History 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.

Online ticket sales are closed. There may be a limited number of tickets available. To see if tickets are available, please call (202) 238-5916 between 9-5 pm EST on Friday or 8-10:30 am EST on Saturday.

If you are attending, please fill out the food allergy form below before February 14, 2025. Thank you!

Seating assignments, dietary needs, and other luncheon-related information will be communicated in February 2025.

Choose to book your stay with either The Westin Hotel or The Hyatt Regency Hotel.

FREE and open to the public! Featured at the luncheon will be the 2025 Festival Book Signing Event from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the authors and have their book signed at this exclusive event!

FREE and open to the public! The Annual Luncheon will also feature exhibitors from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. More details on this event and featured exhibitors are coming soon.