Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan issued the following announcement on June 19.
Henry Ford Health System has invited its 33,000 employees participated in a virtual storytelling project to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday last Friday, June 19, 2020.
One of the oldest, yet not as familiar holidays in the U.S., it is the blending of the words “June” and “nineteenth” and marks the day in 1865 when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX to share the news that the Civil War had ended and slavery had finally been abolished. It is believed that Gen. Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation – signed two years earlier by President Lincoln – to a group of African Americans that same day.
Henry Ford’s president and CEO, Wright Lassiter, III, said the system is committed to real, tangible change, especially in the wake of current events. “It has been such a tumultuous time in our nation. So many of us, including me, have experienced a range of emotions as we watch the grief, anger and disbelief manifest in ongoing civil unrest, including here in our own communities. Watching these moments, I find myself searching for glimmers of hope – signs of meaningful change in what I’ve recently referred to as the pervasive phenomenon of intolerance and indifference to racial injustice and inequality.”
Original source can be found here.
Source: Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan
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