Black Scientists Lead the Push for Equity in Science and Medicine
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 13, 2024
By Tonya Russell
Donita Brady, PhD
The Juneteenth holiday celebrated on June 19 is one of delayed recognition. It’s a day for Black Americans to celebrate freedom and civil rights. It commemorates a date, in 1865, when the last large group of enslaved people in the U.S. belatedly learned they were legally free, at the end of the Civil War and two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
It took over 150 years for Juneteenth to be recognized as a federal holiday, and today, in academia and other large institutions, the pattern . . .
