Juneteenth
Juneteenth
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Juneteenth Is More Than a Federal Holiday. We Need Reparations Now
The speedy passage to make June 19 a holiday shows that government can act quickly. They should keep that same energy for the House reparations bill.
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Make Juneteenth Great Again: The Caucasians' Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth
Now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday, we created a CRT-free educational curriculum to help colonizer Americans resist the urge to gentrify this celebration.
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In Case You Didn't Already Know, Juneteenth Is a Beyoncé and Solange-Endorsed Holiday
Tina Knowles Lawson told ‘CBS This Morning’ she and her daughters ‘always have and they always will’ celebrate June 19.
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Democratic Senators Will Introduce Legislation to Make Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Happy Juneteenth, everybody! And what a special Juneteenth it is. This year, our holiday commemorating the end of slavery is happening right in the middle of a time when the Black Lives Matter movement is receiving the most widespread attention and support, possibly, since its inception. Now, four Democratic senators are introducing legislation that would make…
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An Exclusive Interview With an Organizer of the Original Juneteenth Cookout
On June 18, 1865, Union Army General Gordon Granger and 2,000 troops, many of whom were black, arrived at Galveston Island to occupy the state of Texas after the last army of white supremacist army of the Confederacy surrendered. The black soldiers started spreading the word to nearby enslaved Africans that something big was going…
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My Ancestors Want Me to Make a Banana Pudding for Juneteenth [Updated]
My mother hated to cook. She was a good cook when it came to things she likedârice, chicken, all kinds of soul food and sweet dessertsâand a bad cook for things she didnât understand or eat. For years, I thought steak was supposed to be tough like shoe leather and chewier than gum. I thought…
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The Timeless Freedom of Miss Juneteenth
What does freedom look like? When youâre a black person in America living in a post-civil rights era world, currently suffocating from the smoke in a racist climate as the words âI Canât Breatheâ echo in the sky, the answer to that question is…complicated, to say the very least. June 19, 2020 marks 155 years…
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What Juneteenth and My Father Taught Me About 'Expectations'
I wouldnât know Juneteenth without my father. Heâs the Texan. He grew up celebrating the holiday that started on June 19, 1865, when slaves on Galveston Island, Texas, finally learned theyâd been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation two years prior. Even though he now lived in St. Louis, heâd always make the same jokey reference…