Steven Rogers is a retired professor from Harvard Business School and Kellogg School of Business. He has lived in Evanston over 40 years. His daughters attended King Lab and Evanston Township High School.
Juneteenth is both personal and historic for Steven Rogers, whose ancestors Richard and Susan Duty were freed from slavery in 1865 and helped build a thriving Black community in Louisiana. Their legacy lives on.
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