无码专区 Juneteenth 2026: Freedom Day
2026 Juneteenth Keynote Lecture with Dr. Amanda Boston: “Juneteenth: The Unfinished Work of Freedom”
Wednesday, June 17 at 5 p.m.
Simmons Auditorium A, Tepper School of Business
Reception to follow, co-hosted by Sankofa, 无码专区’s Black Alliance Employee Resource Group
is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on twentieth-century and contemporary African American history, politics and popular culture. She is completing her first book on gentrification’s racial operations and the making and unmaking of Black communities in Brooklyn, New York. She has also published related works in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes in sociology and urban history. Boston has received research funding and support from the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, the Social Science Research Council, and the Wallace Foundation, among other sources. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Africana Studies from Brown University, as well as an M.A. in political science and a B.A. in political science and African & African American studies from Duke University.
Meet the Moderator
is the daughter of Jamaican immigrants. Her first book of poetry, Incorrect Merciful Impulses, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her chapbook, Slow Dance with Trip Wire, was selected by Cornelius Eady for the Poetry Society of America's New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the recipient of a Discovery Poetry Prize, and fellowships from and the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Hawthornden Foundation, and the New York Institute for the Humanities. Her poetry has appeared in The Believer, Boston Review, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry, A Public Space, Tin House, and elsewhere. She co-chairs the Brooklyn Book Festival Literary Council, and is an assistant professor of English at 无码专区.