BU Adds Juneteenth as an Annual Holiday in University Calendar Antiracist Makeover
An African American band at an Emancipation Day celebration on June 19, 1900, in Austin, Tex. The event marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. Starting this year, it will become an official University holiday. Photo courtesy of Mrs. Charles (Grace Murray) Stephenson/Austin History Center General Collection Photographs/The Portal to Texas History University News
And Columbus Day will be renamed Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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Boston University now recognizes Juneteenth as an official holiday and will rename the Columbus Day holiday Indigenous Peoples’ Day on its calendar, part of an ongoing effort to make BU “the diverse, equitable, and inclusive community that best embodies our values” President Robert A. Brown announced in a letter sent to the University community on Thursday.
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