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Newsletter | Winter 2024 Article 4 | South Central MIRECC

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Calendar of Events January-March 2024

Here’s this quarter’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) calendar of events for VA-recognized holidays and months.

January

  • Poverty in America Awareness Month
  • Emancipation Proclamation Implementation (1963)
  • 1/4 World Braille Day
  • 1/11 National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness
  • 1/15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • 1/18 Paralyzed Veterans of America Founded (1946)
  • 1/27 Liberation of Auschwitz (1945)
  • 1/29 The Seeing Eye Established (1929)

February

  • National Black History Month
  • National Senior Independence Month
  • AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
  • 2/2 Four Chaplains Memorial Day (1943)
  • 2/7 Black HIV/AIDS Day
  • 2/4 USO Founded (1941)
  • 2/10 Lunar New Year
  • 2/11 National Shut-In Visitation Day

March

  • Women’s History Month
  • Deaf History Month
  • Irish-American Heritage Month
  • 3/1 – 3/7 – National Invest in Veterans Week
  • 3/8 International Working Women’s Day
  • 3/11 Ramadan Begins (Ends April 9)
  • 3/20 – 3/24 LGBTQ+ Health Awareness Week
  • 3/22 Tuskegee Airmen Activated (1941)
  • 3/31 Transgender Day of Visibility
  • 3/21 World Down Syndrome Day
  • 3/31 Easter

Last updated: June 13, 2024