Cornell Club of Boston co-sponsors Virtual Hats & Heels Tea with The North Shore Juneteenth Association
North Shore Juneteenth Association Inc. is a group of community leaders seeking to create awareness about the Juneteenth holiday, educate the broader community about positive aspects of African American culture, and dismantle racism by using events and programming as a tool for change.
What is Juneteenth? Juneteenth is an American Holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the date that enslaved Black people of Galveston, Texas, learned that President Abraham Lincoln had freed enslaved people in rebel states two and a half years earlier. This was the last group of enslaved Black people to learn of their freedom! Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom. Is a day to reflect on how far we have come and how we will continue to move forward. Juneteenth is the Black American Independence Day.
The North Shore Juneteenth Association is pleased to announce our speaker for this year’s Hats & Heels Tea is noted Cornell University Professor Carole Boyce Davies. Tickets are on sale now (please note the first ticket is your admission, the second is for your swag bag.)
Learn more about The North Shore Juneteenth Association
About the speaker:
Carole Boyce Davies is a distinguished professor and internationally-recognized scholar of African Diaspora Studies and Black women’s writing in global context, and a student-first, Caribbean-American radical intellectual committed to social justice. She is currently the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University.
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2021
Time: 4:00 - 5:00pm
