DEI&B Updates

CCC Cookbook

We are excited to share updates to the 2025 Cultural CommUnity Connections (CCC) Cookbook as a way to remember our January CCC event that brought us together to share great food, company, stories, and traditions. Inside, you’ll find recipes from all CCC events, including those we enjoyed this year. We hope you have fun recreating some delicious meals! View the cookbook.  

 

Confidential Resource Provider

Month-Long Observances in June

  • Pride Month
  • Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month
  • National Caribbean American Heritage Month
  • Black Music Appreciation Month
  • Portuguese American Heritage Month


Religious or Cultural Observances

  • Eid-al-Adha (Islam, June 6-10)
  • Summer Solstice (June 20)
  • Hijri New Year (Islam, June 26-27)
 

Dates of Significance

  • HIV Long-term Survivors Awareness Day (June 5)
  • Loving Day (June 12)
  • US Army Birthday (June 14)
  • Juneteenth (June 19)
 

Library Resources


Pride Month
https://library.neco.edu/subject-guides/lgbtqia

Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month
Leaving Tinkertown by Tanya Ward Goodman  

Black Music Appreciation Month
Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music by John Lowney

Juneteenth
We have three physical books in our Behind the Eyes collection in the library: 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross