University of Washington Tacoma professor Dr. Luther Head leads a discussion on Black military service, and how it paved the way for increased democracy and Civil Rights in America. In conjunction with Tacoma's Buffalo Soldiers Museum. 

Dr. AK Sterling presents an alternative vision for Black History Month, expanding its focus beyond well-known figures and events to explore "the history of identification, accomplishments, innovation, and excellence within the Black culture."

Back when Discovery Park was still known as Fort Lawton, hundreds of Black soldiers were stationed there as part of the US Army’s 25th infantry. This ongoing exhibit at Seattle Center looks at the history of the revered Buffalo Soldiers and their contributions to the region. On February 5, a jazz performance showcases their musical legacy.

The new show at Wa Na Wari, a Black cultural center located in a historic home in the Central District, features airbrush pieces, photography, and more from artists Marin Burnett, Brandon Donahue-Shipp, DK, and Christopher Iduma. Live music and refreshments from 6–8pm. 

Improvisers from Unexpected Productions will get together every Sunday to create an on-the-spot sitcom in the style of Norman Lear classics like All In the Family  and The Jeffersons from scratch in front of a live studio audience: you. Sunday nights. 

Bessie Coleman was one of the first female aviators to earn a pilot's license, and the very first African American woman to earn one. She couldn't get a license in the United States so she saved up money to move to France by working as a manicurist in Chicago. Her great-niece Gigi performs a historical reenactment of her life. 

Tamara Payne, whose father Les authored the Pulitzer-winning biography The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, and who served as primary researcher on the book, discusses the reporting and research behind a modern classic work of American history. 

Noir Lux, a local Black woman–owned candle company, will host a pouring bar at MOHAI Mercantile. Participants will get a lesson in candle-making, and the chance to pour their own soy wax candle. 

Part of the Advancing Racial Equity series, this program will feature a discussion of a lost speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The panel includes Eighth Generation CEO Colleen Echohawk, County Councilmember Jorge Barón, Glover Empower Mentoring's Marcus Boston, and moderator Gordon McHenry, Jr., of the United Way. There will also be a performance by the Rhapsody Project. 

The Northwest African American Museum hosts Dr. Doretha Williams, of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture for a discussion on Black family history and genealogy.