This year's theme for Black History Month is "Black Resistance". It takes a look at how Black people have fought repression from America's earliest days. From escaping the plantation, to the rise out of poverty and the struggle for equal housing and education to the struggle for voting rights, the resistance lives on even into the 21st century. This theme is a Call to Action to everyone to establish safe spaces where Black life can be sustained, fortified and respected, all in the pursuit of racial justice and equality.