Black History Month Workplace Activities
Celebrate African American Heritage Month with employee engagement that combines wellness, learning, and connection throughout February 2027.
Plan Your 2027 Black History Month Event
Black History Month Ideas for Work
The best February programming combines education, wellness, and community. Here are formats that consistently earn real participation instead of polite silence:
Month-Long Wellness Challenge
Teams log activities while traveling a virtual route through cities central to Black history and culture. Movement powers the journey; the route carries the story.
Educational Waypoints
Digital postcards along the route spotlight historic events, leaders, artists, and innovators from the African diaspora. Add quiz questions to make the learning interactive.
Team-Based Connection
Shared goals and friendly competition bring remote, hybrid, and on-site employees together around something that isn't a meeting.
Stories in the Feed
The activity feed gives employees a place to share what the month means to them, celebrate Black-owned businesses, and highlight local events.
How to Celebrate Black History Month at Work
Successful programs share a few habits:
Partner with your Black ERG. Center Black employees' voices by involving your ERG or Black Employee Network in planning, route themes, and waypoint content from the start.
Make it inclusive and accessible. Walking, yoga, meditation, cycling, strength training, wheelchair activities: with 80+ activity types, every fitness level and ability moves the team forward.
Layer in live programming. Many teams pair the challenge with panels, speakers, volunteer events, or internal learning sessions, and use their own Slack or Teams channels for reflection prompts along the route.
Run it all February. A single lunch-and-learn is forgotten by Friday. A month-long journey builds daily habits and keeps the celebration present for four full weeks.
Example: A 4-Week Black History Month Race
Racery has a ready-made route for February: 900 miles from Selma to Atlanta. A typical month looks like this:
- Teams travel the route past the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Tuskegee Institute, Dorchester Academy, Morehouse College and Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth home in Atlanta
- Pindrops and emails at each landmark tell its story, with an optional quiz on the race page
- Your ERG posts a reflection question each week in your own Slack or Teams channel
- The activity feed fills with photos, comments, and shoutouts for Black-owned businesses and community organizations
- Every racer gets a personalized digital bib, and finishers get an award
It has been done at scale: Zillow's 11 teams raced a 2,020-mile route past 10 HBCUs and received an e-postcard at each one.
Platform Features for Black History Month
Custom Heritage Routes
Build routes through the cities, campuses, or regions that matter to your Black ERG and employees.
Story-Driven Waypoints
Deliver short stories, facts, visuals, and quiz questions at milestones so employees keep learning as they move.
Team Competition
Live leaderboards spark friendly rivalry while keeping the focus on inclusion and community.
Activity Feed
Employees share wins, photos, and shoutouts, and cheer each other on with comments and likes.
Help Building It
On packages from $4,500, we help with route design, waypoint content, awards and emails. Your ERG focuses on the stories.
Reports
Download a race report PDF with charts, plus registrant and per-racer activity reports.
Pricing
Two ways to run your Black History Month challenge:
Do It Yourself
Create and run your own race with Racery's self-serve tools. Pick a route, invite your team, and launch in minutes.
With Our Help
From $4,500 in prepaid racer fees
We meet with you and help plan the race: route, waypoints, quiz, awards and emails.
Every race includes: web and mobile access, 80+ activity types, live leaderboards and route map, personalized digital bibs, and finisher awards.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this only for Black ERGs?
No. Many companies lead these events in partnership with a Black ERG or Black Employee Network, but welcome all employees and allies to participate.
Can we include live events or internal programming?
Yes. Many teams combine the Racery challenge with panels, speakers, volunteer events, or internal learning sessions.
How far in advance should we start planning?
Most teams begin planning 4 to 8 weeks before February. That leaves time to build the route and give people at least two weeks to sign up.
What activities count toward progress?
Walking, running, cycling, yoga, meditation, strength training, stretching, swimming, wheelchair activities, and dozens more: 80+ activity types in all, so every fitness level and ability can participate.
Can we tie this to charitable giving?
Yes. Racery includes peer-to-peer fundraising through Stripe, so racers can collect donations through their personal bib pages for organizations your team chooses to support.
Can we customize the educational content?
Absolutely. Work with your Black ERG to select which historic events, leaders, and cultural moments to highlight along the route.
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