Multicultural education: Pride Month

The SMHS Office of Multicultural Education would like to remind you about a pair of upcoming events:

Pride Month

As you might know, June is Pride Month, a time to honor the contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community to American culture and history. June was chosen as the month to celebrate Pride in part to commemorate the Stonewall Riots that occurred in June 1969. The riots were a catalyst for the broader Gay Rights Movement in the U.S. For more information on Pride Month, visit: Pride Month 2024: Origins, Parades, and Dates.

UND’s Pride Center has planned several events to celebrate Pride Month at UND and in Grand Forks. See a list of events on the UND events calendar and via this local “Pride guide.”

Juneteenth

And next week UND will celebrate Juneteenth on June 19. Juneteenth honors the official end of slavery in the United States and marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to free enslaved people. The Emancipation Proclamation, the federal legislation that freed slaves in the U.S., was signed 2.5 years prior to this event, but some landowners in Texas were still holding enslaved people.

Juneteenth became an official federal holiday in 2021. Learn more about Juneteenth via the Congressional Research Service.

On that note, a Juneteenth Celebration 5K walk/run will be held at the Grand Forks Air Force Base on June 18 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. UND will also host a Juneteenth event on Wednesday, June 19.