Volunteers with the Mobile chapter of the AARP are highlighting local African-American history. Each week in February they’ll host a different, free event to teach others about black history. It’s every Monday in February at the Via Health,

Groups celebrating Black History Month are including this year’s theme of African Americans and Labor as part of their commemorations.

Black History Month started as "Negro History Week" in February 1926 as a way to chronicle the accomplishments of African Americans in the aftermath of slavery.