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Black
Awareness
Calendar
2026
January
February
20th February
International Stand Up to Bullying Day
27th February
Africa Day of School Feeding & International School Meals Day
28th February to 1st March
March
Africa Day of School Feeding & International School Meals Day
28th February to 1st March
Africa Environment and Wangari Maathai Day
3rd March
8th March
International Day to Combat Islamophobia
15th March
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
21st March
Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV)
31st March
April
Commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (Kwibuka)
7th April
7th April
22nd April
Day of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
23rd April
20th - 26th April
June
May
11th to 18th May
11th to 17th May
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
17th May
19th May
World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
21st May
25th May
25th May
1st - 30th June
7th June
8th June
Day of the African Child (DAC)
16th June
19th June
15th to 21st June
20th June
21st June
22nd June
Day of Africa‘s Scientific Renaissance
30th June
July
7th July
International Non-Binary People's Day
14th July
15h July
World Day for International Justice
17th July
18th July
Black Leaders Awareness Day (BLAD)
18th July
International Day of Friendship
30th July
August
1st to 7th August
International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
9th August
10th August
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
23rd august
26th August
International Day of People of African Descent
31st Aug
African Traditional Medicine Day
31st August
September
9th September
10th September
15th September
18th September
21st September
International Week of Happiness at Work
21st to 25th September
23rd September
14th - 20th September
October
8th October
10th October
1st to 31st October
18th July
21st October
International Stuttering Awareness Day (ISAD)
22nd October
26th October
Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security
30th October
November
1st November
1st to 30 November
13th to 19th November
International Day of Tolerance
16th November
18th November
19th November
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR)
20th November
20th November
20th November
International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women
25th November
Decamber
1st December
International day of persons with disabilities
3rd December
Africa Telecommunications and ICT Day
7th December
International Humans Rights Day
10th December
14th December
26th December to 1st January