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Juneteenth: Connecting the Historic to the Now


  • National Museum of African American History & Culture Washington DC (map)

A panel of scholars will explore the origins of Juneteenth discuss the historical and current political significance of the holiday. Panelists: Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University; Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University; and Imani Perry, Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. Kevin Young, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, will moderate HERE.