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White Coats Against Racism & Injustice Kneel
May 25, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
White Coats Against Racism & Injustice Kneel
Join us on May 25, 2023 for the White Coats Against Racism & Injustice Event on the UPMC Montefiore Lawn. Please join us as we kneel for 9 minutes and 29 seconds in solidarity at 1:15 pm (the anniversary of George Floyd’s death). The purpose of this event is to unify against hatred and violence based on race within our Black, Brown, and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.
The tentative agenda for this event includes:
12:50pm – Performance by CAPA jazz choir
12:55pm-1:14pm – Remarks by Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD, Naudia Jonassaint, MD and Rickquel Tripp, MD, MPH, CDR, USNR from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
1:15pm 1:24pm – Unified kneel by everyone
1:25pm – 1:30pm – Closing remarks by community member Felicia Savage Friedman
Two food trucks will also be available if you would like to purchase lunch at this event.