Events

Your donation of healthy breast tissue is important to breast cancer research that may lead to better treatments or a cure. Please note that this is not a diagnostic procedure and has no direct medica...Read more

"APIDA" is used in order to be more inclusive of South Asians. APIDA stands for Asian Pacific Islander Desi American, with the Desi term representing South Asian identifying people.

European festival marking the beginning of summer; also a celebration of labourers and working classes; established 8-5 workday. May Day/International Workers' Day

A celebration of Jewish Americans and Jewish American Heritage.

Cinco de Mayo marks the anniversary of the 1862 victory by Mexican troops over invading French forces at the Battle of Puebla. 

The date of 17 May was specifically chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization's decision in 1990 to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder.

Juneteenth, an annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War, has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s.

The brutal abduction and murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, galvanized the emerging civil rights movement.

August is International Peace Month and a time to reflect on the First World War. 

The Assumption refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary being assumed — body and soul — into heaven at the end of her earthly life.