GOOGLE CALENDAR REMOVES DATES FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH, PRIDE MONTH, WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH

Tue 11 February 2025:

Google Calendar no longer shows the start dates for Black History Month, Pride Month, Women’s History Month, and other events.

The company’s calendar used to mark those days in early February, March, and June but they are absent in 2025.

A Google spokesperson, Madison Cushman Veld, provided the Guardian with a statement that said the listed holidays were not “sustainable” for their model.

“Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing – and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” the statement said.

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“So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.”

The decision to no longer acknowledge Black, LGBTQ+ and women’s holidays is another move on the growing list of changes that Google has made following the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency.

Google also revealed in late January that users in the US would see the name of the Gulf of Mexico changed to the “Gulf of America” and that the company would start using the name “Mount McKinley” for the mountain in Alaska currently called Denali after executive orders from Trump signed during his first day in office. The company enacted the Gulf name change for US users on Monday.

Many users on social media have expressed disappointment and frustration with Google’s latest decision. Following the changes, users who wish to track events such as Pride Month, Black History Month and Indigenous Peoples’ Month must now manually add them to their calendars.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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