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If folks are truly looking for ways to “make a statement” on Juneteenth, this article by the Baltimore Afro News highlights several interesting ways to buy Black. And re-read Douglass Austin's Juneteenth blog to see why he was featured in the article.

Buying Black for Juneteenth: five businesses to shop with today, Afro News: https://afro.com/buying-black-for-juneteenth-five-businesses-to-shop-with-today/

Juneteenth: Let’s Band(wagon) Together: https://www.updconsulting.com/juneteenth-lets-bandwagon-together/

Juneteenth: Let’s Band(wagon) Together - UPD Consulting Blog Juneteenth: Let’s Band(wagon) Together It’s nice to see mainstream white America coming to grips, however slowly, with the importance of acknowledging past wrongs and scraping away some of the historical whitewash used to alleviate (or maybe avoid) the white guilt associated with them. The ...

As a Project Director at UPD, Gilary Massa will provide executive leadership and oversight to our clients and project teams. In addition she will lead UPD’s internal design team in the codification of UPD’s Organizational Equity Change Management practices, tools, processes, and resources. Gilary is a human rights and equity educator and a strategist with over a decade of successful experience supporting school boards, advocacy organizations, labor unions, government agencies, and private enterprises through organizational change work that centers on human rights, equity, and inclusion.