Google Deletes Cultural Events from Calendar: A Controversial Move Sparks Outrage
Google has removed references to Black History Month, Women’s History Month, LGBTQ+ holidays, and other cultural events from its calendars, citing the unsustainable nature of manually maintaining hundreds of global events. This decision follows Google’s rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and its adoption of names for geographical locations mandated by executive orders. Users must now manually add these events to their calendars. While Google maintains it continues to celebrate cultural moments elsewhere, the calendar change has sparked user criticism.
John Q. Hosedrinker