Google Calendar update removes Black History Month, Pride Month
The Brief
Google Calendar no longer marks the start of Black History Month, Women's History Month, or Pride Month on its platform.
A Google spokesperson said the changes were made in mid-2024 as part of a shift to only displaying public holidays and national observances.
The move follows other recent changes by Google, including updates to Maps based on new federal guidelines under the Trump administration.
LOS ANGELES - Google Calendar users recently noticed that certain cultural observances, including Black History Month and Pride Month, are no longer displayed on the platform.
The company previously included these events in prior years, but for 2025, they have been removed without public announcement.
The change, which The Verge first reported, has sparked online discussion, with users questioning why these events were excluded.
A Google spokesperson confirmed the update, The Verge reported, stating that the company is now only showing public holidays and national observances instead of manually maintaining a broader list of cultural moments.
The backstory
Google Calendar previously included February 1 (Black History Month), March 1 (Women's History Month), June 1 (Pride Month), and November 1 (Indigenous Peoples Month) among its recognized observances.
These events are no longer listed for 2025. Google said the change was made in mid-2024 when the platform stopped manually adding cultural moments and shifted to relying on a third-party source, timeanddate.com, for holiday listings.
Users who wish to track these observances must now manually add them to their personal calendars. Google has not yet responded to comment from FOX TV Stations.
What they're saying
Google said the decision was made due to scalability issues, as manually maintaining hundreds of observances across different countries had become unsustainable.
"Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world," a Google spokesperson told The Verge. "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."
Big picture view
The removal of these observances comes amid broader shifts in Google's policies following the election of President Donald Trump.
Google recently ended its diversity hiring goals, aligning with broader industry changes in response to Trump's executive order rolling back DEI initiatives.
The company changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on Google Maps after the administration updated its official sources.
Google also announced it would use the name "Mount McKinley" instead of Denali, following the administration's stance on place names.
What's next
Google Calendar users who want to track observances like Black History Month, Pride Month, and Women's History Month can manually add them to their personal calendars.
Google has not indicated whether it plans to restore any of the removed observances in the future.
The Source
This article is based on reporting from The Verge and previous FOX TV Stations coverage.
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