While the celebration originated in the Southern United States, New York City has been celebrating Juneteenth long before it became a national holiday. The Brooklyn Juneteenth Arts Festival, one of the longest-running…
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“I introduced this to make Juneteenth a federal holiday to commemorate the end of chattel slavery, America’s original sin, and to bring about celebration, crushing racial divide down to a point of…
Across the country, Juneteenth, a national holiday immortalizing June 19, 1865, the day on which all enslaved people in Texas were freed, has seen a recent public resurgence. Following the police killings…
