Black History Month: speakers, programming & vendors for ERGs services for ERGs.
Black History Month is the annual observance held throughout February in the United States and Canada (and October in the United Kingdom) that recognizes the central role of Black people in history, culture, and contemporary society.
Black History Month spans the full month of February, honoring the contributions, resilience, and futures of Black communities in the U.S. ERG leaders use this window to elevate Black voices, partners, and programming — and to set the tone for the work that has to continue the other eleven months.
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More than a calendar moment.
Black History Month is not a tribute month. It's a planning window — one of the only stretches where Black voices, partners, and programming are guaranteed sustained attention from leadership. ERG leaders who treat it as a strategy moment build leverage that lasts into the rest of the year.
The dates were chosen on purpose: February holds the birthdays of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, the founding of the NAACP, and the ratification of the 15th Amendment. The month carries weight before you add a single calendar invite.
For ERG leaders, the work is twofold: celebrate the breadth of the Black diaspora — African American, Caribbean, African, Afro-Latine — and elevate the contributions of Black colleagues across the business, not just during February.
What follows is the planning architecture: speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a 6-week timeline — built for ERG leaders who want a month that lands and a year that follows through.
The BHM pitfalls.
What sinks BHM programming isn't usually a missing speaker — it's a misread of the moment. The three misses worth naming out loud.
Defaulting to slavery and civil rights only.
Black history is also Black futures — tech founders, climate scientists, contemporary artists, joy. Pair the hard history with the present and the future.
Flattening the diaspora.
African American, Afro-Caribbean, African immigrant, and Afro-Latine communities have distinct histories and needs. A single panel can't represent all of them — say so out loud.
Shrinking the month to a soul-food potluck.
Catering is welcome, but if the only programming is a meal, you've turned 28 days of history, scholarship, and Black excellence into a lunch. Pair any food moment with a learning, listening, or action slot.
Real examples from BHM ERGs.
Short video spotlights from ERG leaders who ran great BHM programming. Borrow the format. Skip the guesswork.
Curated for Black History Month.
Speakers, facilitators, and vendors filtered for BHM programming. Pulled live from ERGs.io — every profile is one click away from a full bio, rate, and inquiry form inside the platform.
Alecia Danielle
Chef Jumoke Jackson
Crwn Network, LLC
Daphne Valcin
Discover Live
Dr. Angela Holliday-Bell
Real BHM programming ideas from ERGs.io.
A few of the most-favorited Black History Month ideas ERG leaders are running this year. Open ERGs.io to browse the full library — filtered, saveable, and bookable with vendors.
Other observances in the calendar.
Every observance gets its own planning page — speakers, vendors, programming ideas, and a timeline.
Stop scrambling. Start planning the month that lands.
ERGs.io pulls every speaker, vendor, and programming format into one workspace — so planning BHM takes one afternoon, not one month of late nights. Free to start.