2024 Juneteenth Celebration & Panel

Join Northeastern University for a hybrid panel discussion, Understanding the Reparations Movements, followed by a time of celebration at an outdoor festival in Centennial Common. Panelists include Deborah Jackson, managing director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR) and a member of Northeastern University’s reparations research team, and Joseph Feaster ’75, of counsel at Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner and chair of the City of Boston reparations task force.

Hybrid Panel Discussion:

Understanding the Reparations Movements
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM (ET) | The Cabral Center, John D. O’Bryant African American Institute/Zoom [Hybrid Event]

Moderator:
Dr. Régine Jean-Charles, Dean’s Professor Culture and Social Justice; Director Africana Studies, Northeastern University

Panelists:

Dr. Deborah Jackson, Northeastern’s Reparations Research Team
Dr. Ashley Adams, Northeastern’s Black Reparations Project
Joseph Feaster ’75, City of Boston Reparations Task Force
Elizabeth Tiblanc, Embrace Boston Harm Report

Outdoor Festival Celebration:

1:30 – 3:30 PM | Centennial Common
Centennial Common will hold celebratory activities that include vendors of local black-owned businesses, musical performances, food trucks and more.