HMS commemorates Juneteenth, collectively envisions ‘new beginning’
For the first time, the entire university closed on June 19 and gave faculty and staff a day off to observe Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Harvard Medical School marked the Juneteenth holiday with a first-ever virtual breakfast to unite, celebrate, and according to HMS Dean George Q. Daley, “to commit together to making Harvard Medical School a better place." Tiara Lacey,a PhD candidate in BBS and a board member of Minority Biomedical Scientists of Harvard spoke spoke at the breakfast. View her Video