5 Days of Feeling The Love
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Schedule
Monday Jun 13th
@ The Boston Foundation
It’s Not a Zero-Sum Game
09.00 - 12.00 PM

Un-Conference

Global Citizen Circle with Yolanda Renee King
Off-Site Partner Event
MC

Paris Alston
GBH
Opening Remarks

Dr. Lee Pelton
President/CEO, The Boston Foundation
12.00 - 02.00 PM

It's Not a Zero-Sum Game
Lunch & Keynote

Heather McGhee
Best-Selling Author

Dr. Lee Pelton
President/CEO, The Boston Foundation
02.00 - 04.00 PM

Unveiling the Vision for a Community Well-Being Dashboard
King Boston Plenary

Dr. April Khadijah Inniss
Director of Community Engaged Research, King Boston

Abrigal Forrester
Executive Director at The Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc.

Maurice Emmanuel Parent
Artist

Dawn Meredith Simmons
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Front Porch Arts Collective

Neema Avashia
Educator
04.00 - 06.00 PM

Social Time
Featuring Greg Grover Jr. Jazz Quartet

Greg Groover Jr. Jazz Quartet
In Concert
Tuesday Jun 14th
@ Harvard Medical School
Healing from Racialized Trauma
09.00 - 12.00 PM

Un-Conference
MC

Ra’Shaun Nalls
Director of Community Engagement, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
12.00 - 02.00 PM

Healing from Racialized Trauma
Lunch & Keynote

Michael Curry
Mass League of Community Health Centers

Jenee Osterheldt
Boston Globe, Moderator
02.00 - 04.00 PM

Healer's Panel
Panel Discussion

Dr. April Khadijah Inniss
Director of Community Engaged Research, King Boston

Dr. Joan Reede
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan
CareQuest Institute For Oral Health

Dr. Cheryl Clark
Associate Chief, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of General Medicine and Primary Care

Dr. Thea James
Boston Medical Center
4:00 PM

Martha Vedrine
Artist
04.00 - 06.00 PM

Social Time
Featuring Kaovanny

Kaovanny
Artist
7:30 PM

Common Ground Revisted
FREE - Offsite Partner Event
Wednesday Jun 15th
@ ICA Boston
The Saving Power of Culture
09.00 - 12.00 PM

Un-Conference
10:30-11:30am

Olmsted Now Public Dialogue: WHO Has Public Greenspace Been For?
Off-Site Partner Event

Un-Conference
MC

Kwani A. Lunis
NBC 10 Boston
Opening Remarks

Jill Medvedow
Ellen Matilda Poss Director, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
12.00 - 02.00 PM

The Power Of Monuments
Lunch & Keynote

Hank Willis Thomas
Artist, Designer Of The Embrace Memorial

Rujeko Hockley
Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum

Imari Paris Jeffries
Executive Director, King Boston
2:00 PM

Letz Move With Reka
Artist
02.00 - 04.00 PM

Can Culture Save The City?
Panel Discussion

Andrés Holder
Executive Director, Boston Children’s Chorus

Michael J. Bobbitt
Mass Cultural Council

Rob Gibbs
Artist

Sheena Collier
Boston While Black

Gregory Ball
King Boston, Moderator
04.30 - 06.30 PM

Jazz Reception at Klaviyo
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Thursday Jun 16th
@ GBH
Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations
09.00 - 12.00 PM

Un-Conference
10:00 - 11:00 AM

Un-Conference

Book Bans and Challenges on the Rise
Off-Site Partner Event
Opening Remarks

Liz Cheng
General Manager for Television, GBH

Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates
Chief Inclusion and Equity Officer, GBH

Jon Abbott
President/CEO, GBH
12.00 - 02.00 PM

Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations
Lunch & Keynote

Kamm Howard
Executive Director of Reparations United, former Co-Chair of N'COBRA

Tammy Tai
Deputy Director, King Boston
02.00 - 04.00 PM

Are We Ready For City Level Reparations
Panel Discussion

Saraya Wintersmith
GBH

Sheryl Evans Davis
San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC)

Robin Rue Simmons
FirstRepair

Dr. Amilcar Shabazz
UMASS Amherst

Dr. Jemadari Kamara
University of Massachusetts Boston
4:00 PM

Mass Humanities’ Presents Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”.
Film Showing
04.00 - 06.00 PM

Social Time
Featuring Amandi Music

Amandi Music
Singer/Songwriter
Friday Jun 17th
@ MassArt
Equity, Freedom, and the Future
09.00 - 12.00 PM

Un-Conference

Resilient Cities Network
Off-Site Partner Event
MC

Malcolm Johnson
NBC 10 Boston
Opening Remarks

Dr. Mary K. Grant
President, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
12:00 - 01:00 PM

Dr. Johnnie Hamilton-Mason
King Boston Visiting Scholar, Eva Whiting White Endowed Professor,Simmons College School of Social Work

Imari Paris Jeffries
Executive Director, King Boston
01.00 - 02.00 PM

Equity, Freedom, and the Future
Panel Discussion

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson
Michael and Denise Kellen ‘68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College

Latoyia Edwards
NBCUniversal Boston

L'Merchie Frazier
Museum of African American History

Dr. Barbara Krauthamer
Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, UMass Amherst
02.00 - 04.00 PM
Embrace Honors

Embrace Awards

Robert Lewis Jr.
Boys & Girls Club Of Boston

The Honorable Kim Janey
Former Mayor of Boston
Friday Jun 17th
@ Nubian Square
Free Juneteenth Block Party
03.00 - 09.00 PM

Juneteenth Block Party

#UNIbyBostonBallet

Bill Banfield's Imagine Orchestra
Artist

Slick Vick
Artist

SuperSmash Broz
Artist

ReaL P
Artist

Silk: Outside w/ ReaL P
In Concert: Stage 1
Building the new Boston together. Five days of embracing music, art, culture, ideas, joy, and each other.
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