Juneteenth originated in Texas, commemorating June 19, 1865, when African Americans in Galveston learned belatedly of the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been signed more than two years before.
Three students from the Merle-Smith Campus—Selim Calis ‘25, Nabeel Rifai ‘23,and Orhan Tufan ‘25—visited the Downtown campus to raise awareness of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria.
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