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Council reads proclamations for Lupus Awareness Month and National Garden Week
Summary
Meeting participants read two proclamations: May 2026 as Lupus Awareness Month, highlighting disproportionate impacts on women of color, and June 7–13, 2026 as National Garden Week, recognizing gardeners' contributions to community wellbeing.
The meeting included two ceremonial proclamations read aloud for public record.
A proclamation designated May 2026 as Lupus Awareness Month and highlighted research cited in the proclamation that, according to the text read, Black women are three times more likely to develop lupus and experience more severe symptoms. The presenter named Renisha MacLean and her "fight for the butterfly movement" as a local advocate working on lupus awareness across the Southeast.
The meeting also read a proclamation recognizing National Garden Week (June 7–13, 2026), praising gardeners for promoting nutrition, community stewardship and ecological balance. The proclamations were presented by the Moderator; one requestor with lupus could not attend due to a flare-up.
