Have you ever attended an event expecting to get one thing, only to leave with a conviction you didn’t know you had? This happened to me in March of 2026 when I attended the Fred D. Gray Symposium in Montgomery, Alabama. I had never heard of the symposium or Fred
April is Arab American Heritage Month. This month, which became federally recognized in 2021, is a time to reflect on the contributions and rich culture of Arab Americans. Each year, the Arab American Foundation establishes a theme to guide the month’s celebrations. The 2026 Arab American Heritage Month theme is
March is Women’s History Month. This month, which began as Women’s History Week in 1980, is a time to reflect on all the contributions women have made to our world while not always having the same rights and privileges as men. In her Women’s History Month Proclamation at the start
In honor of Black History Month, º£½ÇÂÒÂ×’s student organization the Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity Alliance created a weekly spotlight on Black trailblazers in psychology. Each week, IDEA created a flyer highlighting one trailblazer and shared it via weekly emails and social media posts throughout Black History Month. As Black History
February is Black History Month. This year is a particularly special celebration as it marks a century of Black history celebrations, as the celebrations began in 1926 with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s (ASALH) first national Negro History Week. This celebration would morph into the
This semester, the Structural Racism Programming Subcommittee of the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Institutional Equity and Anti-Racism Committee (IEARC) ran the º£½ÇÂÒÂ× Book Club. The club read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Coates has been called “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” by the New
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) began in 1999 when Gwendolyn Ann Smith started a vigil to honor Rita Hester, a Black transgender woman from Massachusetts, who was murdered in 1998. This day closes out Transgender Awareness Week and occurs during Transgender and Non-binary Empowerment Month. The purpose of this day
Last March, I was part of a group of representatives from º£½ÇÂÒÂ× who attended the Inaugural Symposium of the Fred D. Gray Institute for Human and Civil Rights in Montgomery, Alabama. The values which have guided Gray’s remarkable and historic career are now being upheld by the Institute, and º£½ÇÂÒÂ×
November is Native American Heritage Month. This month has been federally designated since 1990, but the push for formally recognizing the contributions of Native Americans dates back to 1916 in New York State. In Proclamation 6230, the first recognition of what at the time was called National American Indian Heritage
National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from September 15th to October 15th. The first national celebration of Hispanic heritage was National Hispanic Heritage Week, which began in 1968 under President Johnson. In his proclamation, President Johnson noted, “Several of our States and many of our cities proudly bear Hispanic
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