[All-postdocs] Juneteenth Events - June 17

[Woods Hole DAC]

Hello,


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.


At noon on June 17th. educator Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston of Howard
University will give the Annual Juneteenth lecture *Collective Action,
Liberation, and the Power of Your Voice: Channeling the Energy of
Juneteenth*. 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.

Registration for this event is open to all and is sponsored by the Marine
Biological Laboratory Diversity and Inclusion Committee. *Please find the
registration link at: www.woodsholediversity.org/events/juneteenth
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The other main virtual event 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. *The live ZOOM link provides access
without registration to this event:
https://falmouth-k12-ma-us.zoom.us/j/86230895014
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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.


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.



For more information contact DAC Committee Members:

Matthew Person, MBL: mperson at mbl.edu

Kwanza Johnson, NOAA: kwanza.johnson at gmail.com

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