May is Jewish American Heritage Month. This month, which has been federally designated since 2006, recognizes the contributions Jewish Americans have made to the United States. Before becoming a heritage month, Jewish Heritage Week has been celebrated since 1980. “Jewish Americans have worked to improve the conditions of marginalized groups
At this year’s Multicultural Conference for Belonging and Inclusion, the conference committee announced the recipient of the inaugural Community Impact Award for Equity & Inclusion. The Community Impact Award for Equity & Inclusion aims to recognize the outstanding contributions, actions, and/or commitment of an MSP community member related to their
May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. AANHPI heritage has been federally celebrated in May since 1977, beginning as Pacific/Asian American Heritage Week, before being declared a heritage month in 1992. It is a time to reflect on the contributions Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and
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, MSP’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 MSP Institutional Equity and Anti-Racism Committee (IEARC) ran the MSP 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
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