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VanJessica Gladney speaking at a podium.

A historian’s take on Juneteenth

In a Q&A, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate VanJessica Gladney talks about what the day means and what broader conversation she hopes it will foster.

Annenberg Classroom, part of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, has released a documentary “Juneteenth: Exploring Freedom’s Stories” that surveys the history of the holiday.

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Mary Frances Berry and Kermit Roosevelt on Juneteenth’s history

A new documentary produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center explores the history of the holiday and illustrates how and why freedom and citizenship were intertwined. The film features Berry and Roosevelt, among others.

A medical worker gives a person a Covid vaccine.

Putting biomedical research advances within reach

Treatments and vaccines are only useful in the hands of the people who need them, and Penn Medicine is working toward better access and equity for biomedical innovations.

Left side of image shows a book cover reading "Undoing Slavery" and the right side of the image shows the author, Kathleen Brown.

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‘Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race and Rights in the Age of Abolition’

Historian Kathleen M. Brown’s new book reexamines the antislavery struggle and is the focus of the first episode of a new podcast series from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.

A home health worker checks the heartbeat of a senior patient.

Home health is another care setting where workers use judgment language

A first-of-its kind study from Penn LDI reveals that Black and Hispanic patients are described negatively, and have shorter visits.

Keisha-Khan Perry in her office, surrounded by books

Truth-teller: Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements

Keisha-Khan Perry, anthropologist of Black social movements in the Americas, is the Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor in Africana Studies.

Elisa Foster stands in the Penn Women's Center Hallway, which contains a display of flyers that showcase the Center's history. Here, the 1980s.

Advocacy, equality, and wellness at the Penn Women’s Center

The Penn Women’s Center occupies three-quarters of a three-story house tucked off Locust Walk, with a front garden dotted with clumps of hellebores and daffodils during the spring. It has a full kitchen, a barbeque in back, and rooms that can be reserved by anyone on campus, with first preference going to student groups.

Kim Tallbear, professor of native studies at the University of Alberta and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, gave the Provost’s lecture on diversity on March 15.

Kim Tallbear

Decolonializing science and technology

Kim Tallbear, professor of Native studies at the University of Alberta, delivered the Provost’s lecture on diversity on decolonializing science and technology.

Zhanar Beketova, Krista L. Cortes, Nesha Subramaniam, and Sharon Smith hold hands at the podium

2023 Women of Color at Penn Awards

The 36th annual Women of Color at Penn award ceremony celebrated the achievements of women of color at Penn and in the broader community, highlighting this year’s theme of self-care and healing.

Lucas Monroe stands under the hoop at the Palestra holding a basketball at his side.

Making moves with Lucas Monroe

The fourth-year guard discusses what he loves about basketball, the history of the game, his social justice work, and his plans for the future.

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