CMU Juneteenth 2025: Freedom Day
CMU Community Events
2025 Juneteenth Keynote Lecture with Dr. Clarence Lang: “Echoes of Freedom & Jubilation”
Tuesday, June 17 at 4:30 p.m.
Rangos 1 and 2, Second Floor, Cohon University Center
Clarence Lang is the Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and professor of African American studies at Penn State. A specialist in African American urban history and social movements, he has spearheaded initiatives that expand student access and career readiness while advancing the recruitment, retention, and professional development of diverse faculty and staff. Before joining Penn State in 2019, Lang held posts at the University of Kansas, including Dean’s Professor, chair of African and African American Studies, and interim director of the Hall Center for the Humanities. An Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, he is the author of “Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936–75” and “Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties,” and co‑editor of three volumes on anticommunism, A. Philip Randolph, and Black urban history.
Fourth Annual Juneteenth Reception with Sankofa Employee Resource Group
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, at 5:15 p.m.
Rangos 1 and 2, Second Floor, Cohon University Center
We are excited to once again partner with Sankofa, CMU’s Black Faculty and Staff Alliance Employee Resource Group, for this time of remembrance and celebration to reinvigorate the power of our communal voice for freedom that is informed by the lessons of our past. Allies, supporters and friends are welcome to gather, build relationships and come together in celebration of Juneteenth.
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