Tackle Your Credit – Reach Your Financial Goals
Jul 31 at 6:00 pm
Join us virtually as we help you navigate the money you have coming in and going out. Together we will discover tools to track income and expenses, discuss strategies on how to understand the credit scoring system and take control of your finances.
Dr. Zulema Blair, Chair DuBois Center
Sandra Hernandez, Senior Consumer Ed. Specialist, FDIC
Hon. James Sanders, NYS Senate
Hon. Brian Cunningham, NYS Assembly
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Commemorates the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote.
Religious/Ethnic Group: United States
Tradition/Practices: Many organizations, libraries, workplaces, and other institutions have observed the day by participating in events and programs that recognize women’s progress toward equality.
Celebrates Krishna’s birthday, Vishnu’s eighth incarnation on earth.
Religious/Ethnic Group: Hindu
Tradition/Practices: Some Hindus choose to fast for the first day of Krishna Janmashtami, choosing only to eat after the midnight celebrations. Dances and songs are used to revere and remember this supreme God. Plays are also carried out re-enacting scenes from Krishna’s early life.
Memorializes the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade, coinciding with the anniversary of the uprising in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) that initiated its abolition.
Religious/Ethnic Group: United States
Tradition/Practices: The Director-General of UNESCO invites the Ministers of Culture of all Member States to organize events every year on that date, involving the entire population of their country and in particular young people, educators, artists and intellectuals
Also called Rakhi, this festival celebrates the protective relationship between brothers and their sisters.
Religious/Ethnic Group: Hindu
Traditions/Practices: The festival is celebrated differently in many different parts of India but usually the family gets together in their fancy clothes and they eat lots of delicious food and Indian sweets.
Mourning of the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem in 586 BCE and 70 CE.
Religious/Ethnic Group: Jewish
Tradition/Practices: In addition to abstaining from food or drink during Tisha B’Av, Jewish tradition also mandates refraining from listening to music, studying Torah, sitting on chairs, and wearing leather shoes.
Celebrates the richness of indigenous cultures and recognizes the challenges indigenous peoples face today.
Religious/Ethnic Group: United States
Tradition/Practices: Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day can include singing, dancing, and eating traditional foods in honor of individual sovereign nations.
Dharma Day, Also known as Asalha Puja, commemorates the historical Buddha’s first discourse following his spiritual awakening.
Religious/Ethnic Group: Buddhist
Tradition/Practices: Dharma Day is typically celebrated by paying homage to the Buddha and his teaching, attending and donating to temples, and by being grateful.
