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A CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM: Black Idahoans ring in Juneteenth, host events in Treasure and Magic...
The Times-News· 7 days agoThe National Museum of African American History and Culture considered the day, nationally...
The Pride of Juneteenth
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThat represented an acknowledgment of perhaps the oldest celebration of Black people in this country. But it also transformed Juneteenth into a...
’Juneteenth isn’t just an Independence Day for Black people’: A look behind the holiday
Real Change News· 6 days agoSince its inception on June 19, 1865, Juneteenth has marked an end to a brutal system in which our country profited from the unpaid labor of nearly four million enslaved Africans, according ...
Feeling a bit gaslit by the new federal holiday? Me too.
Real Change News· 6 days agoOne hundred and three years ago, a mob of white people looted, bombed and burned Black Wall Street,...
The best things to do this weekend in San Diego: June 21-23
U-T San Diego· 5 days agoThese are some of the best options for fun in San Diego County this weekend, including food events,...
CULTURE PLAYER: Juneteenth is More Than a Day
Lost Coast Outpost· 6 days agoMonique “Mo” Harper-Desir and Harrel Deshazier strike a pose while volunteering with Black Humboldt during last year’s celebration. For leaders of local arts and culture organizations ...
The Pride of Juneteenth
The Advocate· 6 days agoUntil recently, Juneteenth was a celebration that was only celebrated in Black communities. Then in June 2020, when millions of people across the country...
Defend Liberalism? Let’s Fight for Democracy First
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAmendment, guaranteeing equal protection under the law, became a tool for supporting corporate personhood while Black people sought their rights in the...
Special Edition: Chicago celebrates Juneteenth
Chicago Sun-Times· 5 days agoToday is Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation...
Keisha Che're Jimmerson: Book banning an affront to freedom
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· 5 days agoAs a first-generation college graduate, an educator, a devoted mother and a woman of color, I am a...
