Events
Black Faculty and Staff Association Juneteenth Celebration
Date and Time
Wednesday, June 18, 2025 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
RSVP
This event is free to attend.
You can RSVP for this event until
June 13, 2025
at
4:00 PM
Location
DeVos Center Building E
Hager-Lubbers Exhibition Hall
401 Fulton St. W, Grand Rapids
Description
Join us as we honor and celebrate Juneteenth, a pivotal moment in American history marking the end of the enslavement of African Americans in the United States. Our university’s Juneteenth Celebration is sponsored by the Black Faculty Staff Association (BFSA) and is a vibrant, inclusive event recognizing the resilience, culture, and contributions of African Americans.
In 1863, during the American Civil War, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared more than three million enslaved people living in the Confederate states to be free. More than two years would pass, however, before the news reached African Americans living in Texas. It was not until Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, that the state’s residents finally learned that slavery had been abolished. The formerly enslaved immediately began to celebrate with prayer, feasting, song, and dance. (source)
This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as juneteenth.
Information
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