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A Folk Medicine Perspective to Black History Month

with Urban Wholistics

Join Urban Wholistics during Black History Month for an informative talk focusing on medicinal herbs and how to use them. Experience an herbal tea and take a recipe to create at home.

Join Urban Wholistics during Black History Month for an informative talk focusing on medicinal herbs and how to use them. Experience an herbal tea and take a recipe to create at home.

Urban Wholistics is a total health, community based, grassroots initiative created to beautify open land in neighborhoods that have been historically excluded from access to wholistic green spaces. They are committed to making a strong contribution to an improved environment, job creation and giving back to their community through the development of green spaces, Urban Wholistics, is able to engage community through education, instruction, land development and the creation of economic opportunities. 

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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) has selected African Americans and Labor as the theme of Black History Month 2025. In celebration of this theme, Toledo Library is hosting programs throughout February that spotlight Black-owned businesses in Lucas County.

From the ASALH website (asalh.org):

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.