On Day 5 of Embrace Ideas Festival, hosted by Massachusetts College of Art and Design as we kick off Juneteenth!

The panel that follows, facilitated by Latoyia Edwards of NBCUniversal Boston, explores what equity looks and feels like for a community by learning from the past with the following esteemed historians: Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, author and professor, Wellesley College; L’Merchie Frazier, Museum of African American History; Dr. Johnnie Hamilton-Mason, professor, Simmons University and King Boston Scholar-in-Residence and Dr. Barbara Krauthamer, an associate professor of history and an associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

We also commemorate the first honorees of the Embrace Awards: Mayor Kim Janey and Robert Lewis, Jr.