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<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">We are incredibly excited for our upcoming annual event! BlackInNHMs week starts<span class="ContentPasted2"> </span></span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Sun
Oct 15 through Sat 21 Oct</span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">. BlackInNHMs week is a series of synchronous and asynchronous activities and content shared through
social media (twitter, instagram, facebook, LinkedIn) and our website. </span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="docs-internal-guid-7925c878-7fff-2823-9338-908753e818aa"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted4">See
the schedule and </span><a href="https://www.blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-week" style="text-decoration:none" id="OWAd95b05b9-8113-7b75-c71c-cf470ec68758" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">register</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted4"> using
this link (</span><a href="https://www.blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-week" style="text-decoration:none" id="OWA082e5a21-77f9-23c9-26f6-9dabfb44df98" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-week</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted4">).</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">Our week is one aspect of our goal of celebrating and building community for Black folx working in NHMs; encouraging and facilitating
Black people’s participation in NHMs professionally and as patrons; and<span class="ContentPasted2"> </span></span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:700;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">engaging non-Black
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">As a 501(c)(3) non-profit, we are a grassroots
organization of dedicated professionals (curators, professors, collections managers, graduate students and communication specialists) building the infrastructure from the ground up to engage and create a community for Black folks who are in, were in, or interested
in being in NHMs. </span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">We are asking that natural history museums and collections<span class="ContentPasted2" style=""> </span></span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">actively
support this initiative<span class="ContentPasted2"> </span></span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">by participating in and advertising the events and following us on
social media to like and repost our curated content to ensure it reaches a broad and diverse audience.</span><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> Even taking
just a few minutes to forward this email or our website to the right person could have a lasting impact.</span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none"> We would also love to form long-term collaborations with museums and collections who are serious about their stated commitments
to diversity, equity and inclusion to bring our initiatives into physical spaces to increase their impact. Try as we might, we cannot make natural history museums (with all of their historical and contemporary issues related to race and colonialism) welcoming
places for Black, Indigenous and other people of color without the earnest engagement of the institutions themselves. We hope you hear us. </span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">Please join us during our annual event to learn more about what we can accomplish together,</span><a href="https://www.blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-week" id="OWA1d5fcb3d-abbd-226a-fe80-95638288b443" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted2" style="margin:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"> </span></a><b style="font-weight:normal" id="docs-internal-guid-dd26f029-7fff-bf8f-752c-94560ecebf36"><a href="https://www.blackinnhms.org/2023-binhms-week" style="text-decoration:none" id="OWA876b911c-100b-434a-9f11-5386c67a8381" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted5"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">register
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<span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight:400;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px;text-decoration:none">Website:<span class="ContentPasted2"> </span></span><a href="https://www.blackinnhms.org/" id="OWAd0aa63fd-05bf-fcf2-1c36-7e0992506af0" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted2" style="margin:0px;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.blackinnhms.org/</span></a><span class="ContentPasted2" style="font-weight: 400; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> </span></p>
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