#  HMS commemorates Juneteenth, collectively envisions ‘new beginning’ 

 





June 19, 2020

 

 

 For the first time, the entire university closed on June 19 and gave faculty and staff a day off to observe [Juneteenth](http://www.juneteenth.com/), 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLlrnWBV5Y&feature=youtu.be)

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