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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: January 23, 2024