<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Hello,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">We'd like to invite you to the DAC Celebration of Juneteenth. There are two main Juneteenth events this
year, both virtual events via ZOOM, open to all, both taking place on Thursday
June 17th.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">At noon on June 17th. educator Dr. Ashley
Robertson Preston of Howard University will give the Annual Juneteenth lecture <b style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Collective Action,
Liberation, and the Power of Your Voice: Channeling the Energy of Juneteenth</span></b><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. Dr.
Preston is an educator, activist, author, and historian, who received her PhD
from Howard University in African Diaspora Studies, and has been an Assistant
Professor at Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, a lecturer in the
African-American Studies Program at the University of Florida, and will be
teaching at Howard University this Fall.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Registration for this event is open to all and
is sponsored by the Marine Biological Laboratory Diversity and Inclusion
Committee. <b>Please find the registration link at: <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woodsholediversity.org%2Fevents%2Fjuneteenth&data=04%7C01%7Ckgriffen%40whoi.edu%7C48a6bad17add458733b008d926cb57a8%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C637583477807417309%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=cXQdafnTis8gY9TZRmMUEXm9rVEXIzsyM%2B0cBQkG0CM%3D&reserved=0" style="color:blue">www.woodsholediversity.org/events/juneteenth</a></b><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">
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<span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The other main virtual event </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">is STEMfest 2021: Recognizing African American
and Caribbean STEM professionals, a showing of short film interviews
created by Falmouth and Mashpee High Schools students. This virtual program is
also open to all, 6:30 PM -8:00 PM on June 17th. This event is a collaboration
between the Falmouth and Mashpee High Schools as well as the Waquoit Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Woods Hole Diversity Advisory
Committee. Students will present their interviews in a 90-minute film
festival-like program. <b>The live ZOOM link provides access without registration
to this event: <a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffalmouth-k12-ma-us.zoom.us%2Fj%2F86230895014&data=04%7C01%7Ckgriffen%40whoi.edu%7C48a6bad17add458733b008d926cb57a8%7Cd44c5cc6d18c46cc8abd4fdf5b6e5944%7C0%7C0%7C637583477807427303%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=SPNO7FNMFxsdGnJYQz6GRVY9OY3KPaCijI0bBwW4%2Bfk%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://falmouth-k12-ma-us.<span class="gmail-mark9x0gp8hvz">zoom</span>.us/j/86230895014</a></b><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Also note
the other elements our Juneteenth web page: the call to a Freedom walk, at your
own pace on your own time. There is also a link to a "make Juneteenth a
national holiday", which has over 3 million signatures thus far. There is also a small educational section on
the bottom of our webpage with information about the African American Heritage
Trail of Martha's Vineyard...Another section has educational information about
the history of slavery in the North.<br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span>Juneteenth
is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in
the United States.
Juneteenth is often cited as African-American Independence Day, a special
day of recognition by many municipalities and states. Observances commemorate
June 19, 1865, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was finally enforced in
Texas, the last of the seceding states to be occupied by the U.S. army. At the
time an estimated 250,000 persons were still enslaved in Texas, despite the
signing of the proclamation more than two years earlier. In Woods Hole and
Falmouth our goal is to celbrate, educate, and converse about this history and
the possible role this holiday may have in the future. <span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information contact DAC Committee Members: </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Matthew Person, MBL: <a href="mailto:mperson@mbl.edu" style="color:blue">mperson@mbl.edu</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kwanza Johnson, NOAA: <a href="mailto:kwanza.johnson@gmail.com" style="color:blue">kwanza.johnson@gmail.com</a></font></span></p><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee</span><br></font><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"><br></span></div></div></div></div>
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