Google Calendar update removes Black History Month, Pride Month
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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.
What changed on Google Calendar?
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.
Why did Google remove these observances?
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.
In this photo illustration, the logo of google calendar is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen with a google logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Idrees Abbas/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"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."
How does this fit into Google’s other changes?
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.