Agenda #: 5.5
Meeting Date: February 4, 2025
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
FROM: Daniel Fox, City Manager
TITLE: BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION.
STRATEGIC
GOAL: Safe, Sustainable & Healthy Community
RECOMMENDATION:
Adopt the Proclamation declaring February as Black History Month.
BACKGROUND:
Black History Month is an annual celebration in February which recognizes and celebrates the significant contributions that African-Americans have made to American history.
Historian and author Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded what has now become National Black History Month in 1926, to remember and celebrate African American history.
Black History Month has been recognized by every U.S. President since 1976 when Gerald Ford issued the first African-American History Month Proclamation, urging Americans to “honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” The Association for the Study of African American Life and History has highlighted “African Americans and Labor” as the theme for 2025 Black History Month, intending to encourage broad reflections on intersections between Black people’s work and their workplaces in all their iterations and key moments, themes, and events in Black history and culture across time and space and throughout the U.S., Africa, and the Diaspora.
The City of Diamond Bar is proud to honor the achievements and accomplishments of Black Americans in our community, throughout our state, and nation.
PREPARED BY:
REVIEWED BY:
Attachments:
1. 5.5.a Black History Month Proclamation