U of A Black Advancement and Engagement
When
Where
Student Union Memorial Center, Pima Room
Speaker
Cheree Meeks, EdD, assistant dean for leadership and student development at the U of A W.A. Franke Honors College, will explore the history and impact of the NAACP through a look at the organization's legacy of advocacy and leadership.
What
The university will mark Juneteenth with a three date speaker series and Art of Food dinner.
The dinner event will be on June 26 from 4-6 p.m. at the Health Sciences Innovation Building Forum. The dinner will feature food inspired by the Harlem Renaissance – which spanned the 1920s and 1930s – and a talk from Johnique Woods, associate director of event planning with Arizona Student Unions.
Tickets are available online for $25.
Juneteenth is celebrated each June 19 to commemorate the arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, Texas, in 1865 – more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed – to announce that enslaved people in Texas were free. The university began observing Juneteenth as a paid holiday in 2023.