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Diversity Interest Group Talk: Museum of African American History

April 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Join the Diversity Interest Group in the Large Meeting Room from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm for a talk with The Museum of African American History. Sylvia Stevens-Edouard, Senior Director of Community Relations – Liberty Mutual Insurance, Board Chair – Museum of African American History will show a 60-minute screening of the video Jubilee, Juneteenth and the Thirteenth. After the video there will be a 30-minute Q&A. Jubilee Juneteenth and the Thirteenth accurately portrays the influential but often overlooked role that African Americans in Boston and Massachusetts played in the events that led to the abolition of slavery in the United States. It explores the importance of the African Meetinghouse, built by and for Black people in 1906 as Boston’s first black church.

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April 8
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
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