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NIEHS Marks Juneteenth with Lecture, Lunch

On a cafe table, a tent card announces the NIEHS Juneteenth event

Tent card announcing the Juneteenth event

Photo: Steve McCaw/NIEHS

Resnik plays a piano.

Dr. David B. Resnik, a bioethicist at NIEHS, wrote and performed a song for the event.

Photo: Steve McCaw/NIEHS

Archer and Perry stand in the meal line, with cafe worker preparing to serve them.

NIEHS deputy director Dr. Trevor Archer (l) and Juneteenth planning committee member Beth Perry of NIEHS’s Office of the Director are among those in the meal line.

Photo: Steve McCaw/NIEHS

Holliday seated at cafe table with foods spread out before him.

Ransom of NIEHS Comparative’s Medicine Branch enjoyed a holiday-inspired meal of Texas barbecue in the cafe. Red foods and drinks are traditionally featured at Juneteenth events.

Photo: Steve McCaw/NIEHS

NIEHS marked Juneteenth on June 16 with a lecture, “A New Birth of Freedom: A Look at the Hawkins and Crutchfield Family in Historical Memory and Photography from Henderson, NC to Cambridge, MA during the Jim Crow Era,” by André Vann, coordinator of University Archives and instructor of Public History at North Carolina Central University. Vann described the oral and journaled histories of one family across five generations.

Dr. David B. Resnik, a bioethicist at NIEHS, wrote and performed a song for the event.

The cafeteria served a holiday-inspired meal of Texas barbecue in the cafe. Red foods and drinks are traditionally featured at Juneteenth events.

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