What is Juneteenth?

By dhahn ()

Last month, Boston University announced that it was adding Juneteenth to the University calendar as an official holiday, so we asked Andrea Taylor (COM’68) BU’s senior diversity officer, to explain Juneteenth’s origins, history, and purpose. As [...]we emerge from a pandemic and a year of intense reckoning around racial justice and equality, the longtime civil rights activist, former University trustee, and former president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute talks about the day’s significance.
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