It’s Black History Month, and here’s how you can celebrate it in Boston

Details on 14 events in the arts, education, film, theater, and more.

‘Dreaming Zenzile’ at the Emerson Paramount Center. T Charles Erickson / Arts Emerson

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Boston doesn’t need a particular month to celebrate and commemorate Black history — just ask the folks at The Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket, who do just that year-around.

But there’s something special about the events mounted each February, when institutions of all stripes in Greater Boston — in theater, music, the arts, education, literature, and beyond — step back and consider the best ways to mark Black history and its impact on our region.

Below you’ll find a list of more than a dozen local events to help you celebrate Black History Month in Boston; follow the links for more information on each.

Through Feb. 26: Learn about families still searching for justice at a special ‘Un(re)solved’ installation at the Museum of African American History

Feb. 3: Check out Boston Public Library’s event: Plant-based eating across the African diaspora

Feb. 5: Enjoy ‘rhythm, rhymes, and reparations’ at a BHM poetry slam

Feb. 7-28: Celebrate Black Americans through film at The Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival

Feb. 10: Listen to the ‘Sound of Soul’ at Berklee College

Feb. 10: Tune into a book talk with Anita Hill

Feb. 17: Get ‘Drunk Black History’ in Somerville

Feb. 17-March 20: Cambridge’s Central Square Theater to debut play ‘Young Nerds of Color’

Feb. 18: ArtsEmerson to debut documentary ‘Fannie Lou Hamer’s America’ followed by Q+A

Feb. 22: City Winery Boston will host Black Opry’s Black History Month celebration

Feb. 23: Visit the Museum of African American History for a special documentary screening: ‘Jubilee, Juneteenth and the Thirteenth’

Feb. 23-27: Experience the life of Miriam Makeba in ArtEmerson’s ‘Dreaming Zenzile’ at the Emerson Paramount Center