Juneteenth 2025

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2025 BFSA Annual Juneteenth Celebration

June 20 9:30 am – 9:30 pm

You’re Invited!

On behalf of the Black Faculty & Staff Association (BFSA), we warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Annual Juneteenth Celebration on Friday, June 20, 2025, in Levering Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus. This year’s celebration marks the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth and is themed: “Still We Rise: Truth, History, Future, Solidarity & Change”

A day to reflect, honor, uplift, and celebrate the excellence at Hopkins and beyond.

Join the Black Faculty & Staff Association (BFSA) at Johns Hopkins for a powerful day of reflection, celebration, and unity!

Registration Links:

TICKETS:
Free for BFSA members, inductees (plus 3 guests), and kids under 5
All others: $10 (covers food, souvenir program, all events).

Co-sponsors: the Black Faculty and Staff Association; Office of Alumni Relations; ; JHU Office of Diversity & Inclusion; JHU Office of the General Counsel; JHU Office of Human Resources; JH Office of Government, Community & Economic Partnerships; Office of Civic Engagement and Opportunity; JHM Office of Human Resources; JHU Office of Finance and Administration; and JHU Office of the President

Location: Levering Glass Pavilion

 

Register to join via Zoom: https://jh.zoom.us/web.../register/WN_MTzedXfSSUOIq7RD_Lo3ag

 

Author Showcase + Book Signing

9:30AM–12:15PM | Levering Lounge & Great Hall

Author & Baltimore Poet Laureate of Maryland & “Lady Brion an international spoken word artist, activist, organizer and educator

  • Moderated by Alicia Wilson, JD
  • Doors open at 9:30AM | Program starts at 10:00AM

 

Indispensable Role of Blacks (IRB) Induction Ceremony

1:30PM–4:00PM | Great Hall & Lounge

Honoring 2025 Inductees into the Indispensable Role of Blacks (IRB) Exhibit

2025 Inductees:

  • Joel Bankson, MD, PhD
  • Nathan Connolly PhD & Shani Mott, PhD
  • Cleon Davis, MS, PhD
  • Cherita Hobbs, MS

13th Anniversary of IRB | 30th Year of BFSA which kicks off in the Fall

Doors open at 1:30PM | Program starts at 2:00PM

 

Celebration Dinner + Performances

5:00PM–8:30PM | Glass Pavilion

  1. Griot - Gordon “BaBa Soorah” Parks
  2. Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr
  3. Mr. Lou Fields
  4. Singing Sensations Youth Choir
  5. Brinae Ali & Friends by Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley

Live performances | Doors open at 4:30PM | Program at 5:00PM