Celebrating Juneteenth

Elana Harris, interim managing director at the BU Office for the Arts (left), and Malachai “M.C.” Damm (STH’21), associate director at the Newbury Center, select T-shirts for themselves during Boston University’s annual Juneteenth Celebration for faculty and staff at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground on June 17. The event—which included food, a raffle for self-care items and mugs, free T-shirts, and a running slideshow of images chronicling the history of Juneteenth—was hosted by BU Diversity & Inclusion, BU’s Faculty & Staff of Color Alliance, and the BU Women’s Guild’s Women of Color Circle. Photo by Cydney Scott