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Diversity and Inclusion Calendar

Summer Term

Fall Term

Spring Term

 

June 

  • LGBTQ+ Pride Month
  • Immigrant Heritage Month
  • Caribbean American Heritage Month
  • June 19: Juneteenth
 

July

  • Disability Pride Month
  • American Muslim Heritage Month
  • July 3: Dharma Day (Buddhism)
  • July 26: Americans with Disabilities Act Signed “Disability Independence Day”
  • July 27-28: Ashura (Islam)
 

August

  • Aug. 26: Woman’s Equality Day


 
 

September

  • Latina/o/x Heritage Month
  • Sept. 16: Mexican Independence Day
  • Sept. 25-27: Rosh Hashanah (Judaism)
  • Sept 26-Oct. 5: Navratri (Hinduism)

October

  • LGBTQ+ History Month
  • Filipino American History Month
  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  • Oct. 4-5: Yom Kippur (Judaism)
  • Oct. 9- 16: Sukkot (Judaism)
  • Oct. 11: National Coming Out Day
  • Oct. 24: Diwali (Hinduism)

November

  • Native American Heritage Month
  • National Veterans and Military Families Month 
  • Nov. 11: Veterans Day
  • Nov. 13: World Kindness Day
  • Nov. 16: International Day of Tolerance
  • Nov. 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance Day

December

  • Dec. 1: Worlds Aids Day
  • Dec 2: International Day of the Abolition of Slavery
  • Dec. 3: International Day for People with Disabilities
  • Dec. 10: International Human Rights Day
  • Dec.18 – 26:  Hanukkah
  • Dec. 24: Christmas Eve (Christianity)
  • Dec. 25: Christmas Day (Christianity)
  • Dec 26: Jan 1 - Kwanzaa
 

January

  • Poverty Awareness Month
  • Jan. 4: World Braille Day
  • Jan. 15: World Religion Day
  • Jan. 16: Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • Jan. 22: Lunar New Year
  • Jan. 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

February 

  • Black History Month
  • Feb. 20: World Day of Social Justice

March

  • Woman's History Month
  • Gender Equality Month
  • National Women’s History Month
  • March 8: International Women’s Day
  • March 15: Equal Pay Day
  • March 22: Ramadan Begins
  • March 25: International Day of Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • March 31: International Transgender Day of Visibility

April

  • Autism Awareness Month
  • Arab-American Heritage Month
  • Community Service Month
  • Earth Month
  • April 14: National Day of Silence
  • April 19: Youth Homelessness Matters Day
  • April 20: Ramadan Ends
  • April 22 – Earth Day

May

  • Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
  • Jewish-American Heritage Month
  • Speech and Hearing Awareness Month
  • May 21: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development