Juneteenth

For organizer Mae Hazleton, this wasn't the first celebration of its kind, but it felt like it. "Juneteenth was made a federal holiday in 2021, but this, for me ...

"Juneteenth is about freedom, and there are still freedoms that the African-American community doesn't enjoy — being healthy, wealthy and wise," said Hazleton. "We want you to learn about the community and what we are offering, but we also want you to enjoy the food. It's a community effort to get these kids where they need to be," Rivera said. People crowded a booth to register to vote then hugged each other before sitting down to eat together as a new community. "I have a variety of resources, everything from nutrition and exercising to preventing chronic diseases. "Juneteenth was made a federal holiday in 2021, but this, for me, is the inaugural event. It was co-sponsored by All About the Ballots, GoMountDora, Community Development Corporation of Mount Dora, Black Voters Matter, Black Women’s Roundtable and Peachy Enterprises.

As activists gathered in a park just a short walk from the U.S. Supreme Court, Loretta Ross remembered the days before the Roe v. Wade decision.

"Y'all are the wombs that are at risk; y'all are the bodies that they're trying to eliminate," Ross said. "Many folks are living in communities where they don't have access to housing, gainful employment, safe environmental conditions," she said. "In 2015, I had a life-threatening pregnancy," she said. "Yes, they may be struggling," Davis said. She spoke at a rally on Saturday, planned around the Juneteenth holiday weekend, organized by a coalition of mostly Black-women-led groups. "Fifty two years ago when I was a first-year student at Howard University, I had an abortion," Ross told the crowd, gathered on an unseasonably cool June afternoon.

On Sunday, churchgoers will celebrate Juneteenth during their worship services. Members of the clergy reflect on the role of the church and the holiday ...

"Our faith requires us to be active in restoring and repairing the wrongs that stem from America's original sin of slavery." In Galveston, Texas — the birthplace of Juneteenth — congregants at Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church will begin their service at 11 a.m. and end the day with a freedom march. We call that End Slavery for Good, ensuring that no one be subject to slavery, even as punishment for a crime," says the Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi. Fields says that "they were believing God to liberate them" – not Abraham Lincoln nor their slave masters. Juneteenth is also called Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day and Freedom Day. It's the most recent new federal holiday, since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was introduced in 1983. Generations later, this hymn is still sung to remember how it felt to be a slave and to continue to seek equality and justice.

With live performances, vendors, food and dance, community members gathered in celebration for Juneteenth in downtown Boise.

The Patriot Front members were arrested on June 11 for conspiracy to riot after a 911 caller alerted the police to a group of men crowding inside in a U-Haul truck. It is where I love and where I want to be,” Owens said. “If you pull out your camera, and in every one of your group photos everybody looks only like you, then you’ve probably got some work to do. “Juneteenth is a space of so much Black joy for people across the diaspora. Last year, the state and federal government signed a law designating June 19 — known as Juneteenth — as an official holiday. Holiday celebrations took place across the state with events happening in Twin Falls and Lapwai. Students at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg will also celebrate the date on Monday.

The new federal holiday marks the day residents of Galveston received General Order No. 3, which freed slaves in Texas.

This year, you can spend Juneteenth learning about Black history, going to an event, or spending time with your loved ones at your own home. Learning more about the holiday as well as Black culture and history is a perfect way to observe it To start, you can read some books about Juneteenth or Black history. If you do decide to plan a cookout, make sure you incorporate red food or drinks, which represent the sacrifice made by slaves from the past.

When Juneteenth became a federal holiday last year, South Carolina organizer Jamal Bradley was excited for it to finally get the recognition it deserves.

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Celebrations of freedom took over Middle Tennessee streets this weekend in honor of Juneteenth.

However, it was also built on the land of a plantation once owned by the slave-owning Hadley family. This year marks the second annual federal observance of the holiday. Purchased by Nashville officials in 1912, Hadley Park was the first park bought by Metro Nashville intended for people of color and is considered to be the first public park for African Americans, according to the state's history marker.

One year ago, I had the great honor of signing legislation to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday—the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin.

That is why Vice President Harris and I have appointed leadership in the federal government that looks like America. Our Administration is taking a whole-of-government approach to advance equity and racial justice and address the lasting impacts of systemic racism on Black communities. To honor the true meaning of Juneteenth, we must not rest until we deliver the promise of America for all Americans. Juneteenth marks both the long, hard night of slavery and subjugation and a promise of a brighter morning to come.

Columbia celebrated its sixth annual Juneteenth gathering at Riverwalk Park on Saturday, which became an official city holiday in 2020.

And to see the youth come out is the most touching," Massey said. "It's a beauty to see the diversity this year, that it's different and makes me feel like it's not just an African-American or black holiday. Now, it has become a very well-attended event that brings dozens of business owners, local chefs and artists to the park.

African Americans throughout the nation celebrate Juneteenth, but who knows what actually happened on June 19, 1865? As the nation observes the second ...

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Background: Utica held its Juneteenth Celebration a day early at Chancellor Park on Saturday, June 18th, 2022. Juneteenth is the anniversary of June 19, ...

The monster is cast adrift and one day rescues a little girl from drowning. Yet, from his very first eye-opening inception, the monster is abandoned and ostracized by his own creator. I will never forget looking at my eyes in the rear view mirror and wondering then what it must be like for people who have to look over their shoulder every time they walk up the street or enter a store. I screamed at the man and told him he was barking up the wrong tree. The mere thought of this made me irate in a way I had never felt before. “I will avenge my injuries. Maybe we were looking for the same gift, I thought. Juneteenth is the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when the news slavery was outlawed finally reached Galveston, Texas. Utica’s longstanding annual celebration goes back to when African American Heritage Day was celebrated in August in the park. As in —- these are the types of conversations that can enlighten the minds and hearts on both sides. As in —- understanding how different life is in America for the oppressors and the oppressed. The profound irony with regard to the monster is that he is in inherently good and wants desperately to be embraced and loved. Freedom for all people in America may only be achieved when the oppressors learn to feel empathy for the oppressed —- and when the oppressed learn to feel a sense of forgiveness for the oppressors.

The federal government's embrace of Juneteenth is an occasion for both celebration and concern. Activists invested in the freedom of Black Americans rightly fear that the holiday will become commercialized and stripped of its radical, somber meaning.

Juneteenth would be a great opportunity to link up, or in some cases resurrect, the celebrations of Black freedom held in communities across the United States. Emancipation Day celebrations on January 1 were common in Black communities at the turn of the 20th century. Much of the heavy lifting to save Juneteenth from being another commercialized holiday has to be done by “everyday people.” This brings us to a final reflection on the potential power of Juneteenth. It should never be forgotten that the holiday itself originated in Texas and is at its heart a local story of emancipation. Considering the echoes of “redemption” by white Southerners to destroy Reconstruction via political violence in the South being felt in the January 6 “riot” at the Capitol building, this lesson is still sorely needed. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the mainstream press is too often only about his “I Have a Dream” speech, and ignores his radical critiques the triple evils of militarism, greed, and racism. Juneteenth offers the only opportunity on the federal election calendar to celebrate the genuine heroism of the Black men and women who went from toiling in fields to, at long last, being given a chance to learn how to read and write. For one, it is important to steer clear of what can be called the “MLK Day trap.” In other words, avoid making Juneteenth about one sliver of Black history, and instead make sure it captures the totality of the Black experiences of freedom in the summer of 1865. But less than a year later, Johnson reversed the order and returned the land to the plantation owners. Likewise, Juneteenth coverage focusing only on the moment the formerly enslaved in Texas learn of their freedom fails to miss how that day represents a broader history of the dream of emancipation—and the reality of broken promises. The general had asked Black Americans in Savannah, Ga., what could be done for them after their liberation by Union troops. The federal government’s embrace of Juneteenth is an occasion for both celebration and concern. Activists invested in the freedom of Black Americans rightly fear that the holiday will become commercialized and stripped of its radical, somber meaning.

As United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and ...

Michael Williams teaches African American history at Temple University in Tokyo and left the U.S. when he was 22. “But as a Black person within the Black community I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s celebrate us.’” They don’t feel like they’re on solid ground in terms of being able to retire comfortably or pay off student debt or just cover their bills.” Tashina Ferguson, a 26-year-old debate coach, was living in New York at the time of Eric Garner’s death. “A lot of people tend to enjoy hip-hop culture and the attire and certain parts of our culture, but I feel like it’s important to acknowledge all parts of Black culture,” she said. Windham has lived in Taiwan for five years, and had always celebrated Juneteenth growing up in Texas. For her, it’s an opportunity to educate people about a different part of American culture, even the darker parts. He’s now 66 and had lived abroad for much of his adult life, but returned to the U.S. for graduate school in Boston and Baltimore. Wright plans to move in 2023 to Portugal. Through her podcast, she already knows of Juneteenth celebrations this weekend in Lisbon, the capital. Wright, 47, hosts a podcast “Blaxit Global” and said many of her guests are tired of the U.S. “The commerciality of Juneteenth has become this like whole, ‘Put it on a T-shirt, put it on ice cream tubs’ type of thing,” she said. She moved to South Korea in 2019 and will celebrate Juneteenth on Sunday with a group of drag performers at a fundraising brunch for the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. While there are no official statistics tracking Black Americans moving abroad, many are discussing it more openly after the police killing of George Floyd. In the aftermath, many African Americans saw the U.S. “from the outside in” and made up their minds not to return.

Crass commercialization of a holiday is as American as a Labor Day sale, and so it is up to us to keep the true spirit of Juneteenth alive.

Juneteenth would be a great opportunity to link up, or in some cases resurrect, the celebrations of Black freedom held in communities across the United States. Emancipation Day celebrations on January 1 were common in Black communities at the turn of the 20th century. Much of the heavy lifting to save Juneteenth from being another commercialized holiday has to be done by “everyday people.” This brings us to a final reflection on the potential power of Juneteenth. It should never be forgotten that the holiday itself originated in Texas and is at its heart a local story of emancipation. Considering the echoes of “redemption” by white Southerners to destroy Reconstruction via political violence in the South being felt in the January 6 “riot” at the Capitol building, this lesson is still sorely needed. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday in the mainstream press is too often only about his “I Have a Dream” speech, and ignores his radical critiques the triple evils of militarism, greed, and racism. Juneteenth offers the only opportunity on the federal election calendar to celebrate the genuine heroism of the Black men and women who went from toiling in fields to, at long last, being given a chance to learn how to read and write. For one, it is important to steer clear of what can be called the “MLK Day trap.” In other words, avoid making Juneteenth about one sliver of Black history, and instead make sure it captures the totality of the Black experiences of freedom in the summer of 1865. But less than a year later, Johnson reversed the order and returned the land to the plantation owners. Likewise, Juneteenth coverage focusing only on the moment the formerly enslaved in Texas learn of their freedom fails to miss how that day represents a broader history of the dream of emancipation—and the reality of broken promises. The general had asked Black Americans in Savannah, Ga., what could be done for them after their liberation by Union troops. The federal government’s embrace of Juneteenth is an occasion for both celebration and concern. Activists invested in the freedom of Black Americans rightly fear that the holiday will become commercialized and stripped of its radical, somber meaning.

19 June commemorates the end of slavery in the US and is a federal holiday. The day marks an opportunity to reflect on ways to combat racism in every ...

On the Strategic Intelligence platform, you can find feeds of expert analysis related to Systemic Racism, Human Rights and hundreds of additional topics. As a UK-based author of a related study details here, Black players are overwhelmingly praised for physical prowess, and white players for intelligence and character. It cited an alarming rise in hate speech and incitement to violence. However, some progress has been made on seeking reparations for slavery and the abuse that extended long past 19 June 1865. The push for federal holiday status gained momentum amid a racial reckoning that began in 2020. On 19 June 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued, Black people in Galveston, Texas were belatedly informed of their freedom by soldiers reading from a general order as they marched through town.

U.S. stock markets, banks and USPS are closed Monday for Juneteenth in 2022. Flashback: Because Juneteenth became a federal holiday just days ahead of the ...

Now we all have the ability to pursue the Founding Fathers' vision." Why it matters: Because Juneteenth is not recognized as a holiday in a majority of states, many state employees across the country are not allowed to take a paid vacation day to observe the holiday, which celebrates the end of slavery in the U.S. "We celebrate that day for American independence. - Flashback: Because Juneteenth became a federal holiday just days ahead of the holiday in 2021, there wasn’t time for many businesses, including the U.S. Postal Service and stock markets, to mark the day last year. - "Think about July 4th," Austion said. - This year, about 30% of private employers are offering Juneteenth as a paid holiday compared to 8% in 2020, according to survey data from the Wisconsin-basedInternational Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans.

Since President Joe Biden declared the day a federal holiday last year, more companies are giving the day off, but few are commemorating it with additional ...

Also known as Emancipation Day, the name blends “June” and “nineteenth” — the date in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced ...

Juneteenth marks the day when America at last began living up to its founding creed. Even as the national unemployment rate sits at a near-historic low of 3.6%, Black joblessness lags at 6.5%. The racial wealth gap — a pronounced failure of social policy — has only increased over the past 40 years. It’s not hard to understand why, though, a century and a half later, Douglass’s words still sting. The African American story from that day forward was one of halting progress — from the 15th Amendment, to Brown v. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. In effect, it asks Americans to reconcile their national aspirations with the reality of persistent inequalities.

Juneteenth is celebrated as a federal holiday June 20, 2022, after becoming an official holiday in 2021 by an executive order from President Joe Biden.,

In President Biden's proclamation of the official federal holiday he wrote, "In its celebration of freedom, Juneteenth is a day that should be recognized by all Americans...A day in which we remember the moral stain and terrible toll of slavery on our country—what I’ve long called America’s original sin. But Juneteenth always held a sacred space for those who had endured the horrors of slavery and racism. Juneteenth honors the date, June 19, 1865, when the last Confederate community of enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, received word that they had been freed from bondage.

Black Americans living overseas have embraced Juneteenth as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black ...

Michael Williams teaches African American history at Temple University in Tokyo and left the U.S. when he was 22. “But as a Black person within the Black community I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s celebrate us.’” They don’t feel like they’re on solid ground in terms of being able to retire comfortably or pay off student debt or just cover their bills.” “A lot of people tend to enjoy hip-hop culture and the attire and certain parts of our culture, but I feel like it’s important to acknowledge all parts of Black culture,” she said. “As a kid, I remember the street being lined with street vendors, and there’s music going on and there’d be the Juneteenth parade rolling through,” he said. Windham has lived in Taiwan for five years, and had always celebrated Juneteenth growing up in Texas. For her, it’s an opportunity to educate people about a different part of American culture, even the darker parts. Payne, an organizer, has lived in Taiwan for 11 years and said he also celebrated Juneteenth growing up in Milwaukee, which has one of the oldest celebrations nationwide. He’s now 66 and had lived abroad for much of his adult life, but returned to the U.S. for graduate school in Boston and Baltimore. Wright plans to move in 2023 to Portugal. Through her podcast, she already knows of Juneteenth celebrations this weekend in Lisbon, the capital. “The commerciality of Juneteenth has become this like whole, ‘Put it on a T-shirt, put it on ice cream tubs’ type of thing,” she said. She moved to South Korea in 2019 and will celebrate Juneteenth on Sunday with a group of drag performers at a fundraising brunch for the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. While there are no official statistics tracking Black Americans moving abroad, many are discussing it more openly after the police killing of George Floyd. In the aftermath, many African Americans saw the U.S. “from the outside in” and made up their minds not to return.

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates enslaved African Americans' emancipation. The day is also often observed for ...

Awareness of Juneteenth and black culture is a fundamental part of American culture. However, facing the unflattering aspects of the US' past is essential for creating a more equitable society. Slavery is a horrible part of US history.

Union Gen. Gordon Granger set up his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, and famously signed an order June 19, 1865, "All slaves are free.

"We want the Juneteenth museum to help eliminate the scourge of modern slavery and human trafficking," Jackson says during a tour of the building. "Our city puts out a very positive image, but there is a dark side to Galveston," says Eugene Lewis, retired Galveston police commander and early Juneteenth booster. He built his own house and the houses of other emancipated people in town. "It was the men with the guns. Until recently, the structure was headquarters for a Texas homebuilder until earlier this year when June 19 Museum Inc., based in Washington D.C., acquired it. "Consistent with the American culture it's already being commercialized," she says. What was so unique about the Juneteenth Order that it is now a federal holiday? It was a church affair." Black people could go to the beaches there but we could not celebrate anyplace else." "It was not a piece of paper that freed enslaved people of Texas," he says. It was a family affair. With the new Juneteenth federal holiday, signed into law last year by President Biden, the city hopes it will also become a must-visit site of essential American history.

Now that Juneteenth is celebrating its second anniversary as an official U. S holiday, the debate on just how to commemorate the day rages on.

The collection is impressive, providing a nice balance between history, the present and the future while also shining a light on black history, black filmmakers and Oscar-worthy performances by black actors. The holiday takes place on June 19, to commemorate the date when enslaved people in Texas were finally notified of the Emancipation Proclamation - 2.5 years after it was signed. And some, well, are binging black films on Apple AAPL Black Film Archive.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, editor of the Black Agenda, about celebrating Juneteenth without misappropriating the holiday.

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The staff of Streetsblog is off today to mark the Juneteenth national holiday, the celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865.

Although the holiday has long been celebrated, it wasn’t until last year that President Biden finally signed into law a bill creating Juneteenth National Independence Day. From the staff at Streetsblog we wish everyone a safe and memorable holiday. The staff of Streetsblog is off today to mark the Juneteenth national holiday, the celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865.

The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation, in which President Abraham Lincoln ...

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Lee, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated activist and leader, fought for years to have Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday.

Lee, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated activist and leader, has spent decades fighting for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday. Sims has continued the tradition of her grandmother's dedication to service and giving back. Much of Lee's life has been dedicated to service and helping others not only in her community but across the nation.

Today is the Juneteenth holiday—an observance of freedom and memory marking the emancipation by the Union Army of the last enslaved Black Americans in Texas in ...

While many Americans have observed it in the past, its emergence on the federal calendar should remind us that the legacies of bondage and slavery are not new to us—in our country, or at Middlebury. Juneteenth is a day Black people across the country come together to celebrate community. Wherever you are this summer season, please take some time today, and this week, to reflect on our histories, the forms of systemic racism that have shaped and continue to shape us, and the ways we can undo the legacies of oppression in the lives of Black Americans. Together we can imagine and continue to build more just communities in all the places where we live, work, and study.

The official federal holiday was on Sunday, marking the 157th anniversary of when the last slaves were finally set free in Texas.

Monday marked just the second time in U.S. history that the federal government has recognized Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, ...

We are an American family collectively, even when there are partisan political and ideological divisions. There were all these different versions of January 6 that really led to the end of Reconstruction in the 1870s and the 1880s. We had the rise of the convict lease system. And founders there would be in quotes, because we know that the founders of the country were actually multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural women, as well as men. So, on the one hand, we have got Juneteenth and supporters of multiracial democracy. So when we think about the personal as the political, this is as important a holiday for America as July 4 our is. They're stories of Black people trying to leave plantations in Eastern Texas and other places to reunite with loved ones. So Juneteenth sort of reflects a complicated history of America and American democracy. He's the author of the upcoming book "The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century." The city of Boston marked the holiday with a weekend celebration of Black arts and culture. In Galveston, Texas, home to the longest-running Juneteenth celebration, the past was alive. Monday marked just the second time in U.S. history that the federal government has recognized Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought word of slavery’s end to Galveston, Texas, freeing the last enslaved people after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

Now a federal holiday in the united states, juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved african americans on june 19, 1865, in texas.

Today the U.S. observes the second Juneteen federal holiday. But how many of us are just enjoying a day off without understanding its significance?

The holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., is making only its second appearance as a national holiday. For 23 years, Project 21 members have promoted Juneteenth as a means of encouraging community, self-improvement and American exceptionalism. Today the U.S. observes Juneteenth, its youngest national holiday.

Bjarke Ingels Group and Texas-firm KAI have unveiled renderings of the National Juneteenth Museum, which will be located in Fort Worth.

“Our hope is that this building will become a gateway to the Historic Southside community of Fort Worth while serving as a national and global destination,” said Alligood in the release. Fort Worth-based PR and marketing firm Sable Brands is the project developer. Like its predecessor, the new and considerably larger museum—envisioned as an “epicenter for education, preservation, and celebration of Juneteenth nationally and globally”—will include dedicated space for exhibitions and educational programming and be joined by a food hall showcasing local purveyors, a business incubator supporting Black entrepreneurs, a recording studio where museum-goers can document their own unique histories, and a 250-seat theatre for larger events. “As a Black architect, this project is one of the most rewarding experiences of my career,” said Alligood in a museum press release. The design is by Bjarke Ingels Group ( BIG) with Douglass Alligood serving as partner in charge on the estimated $70 million project. Late last week, local Fort Worth media shared initial design renderings of the planned museum along with news of an anticipated groundbreaking by the end of this year.

WASHINGTON – It took more than two years for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach the last enslaved people in Texas – and it may take as long to ...

“Anytime that Black people can come together in a celebratory reason or mood, it’s always going to be good as it creates opportunities for people to network and to build.” We’re still going through a whole lot of issues,” he said. Aquil Hameed, a Black business owner in Tucson, thinks it is great that Juneteenth is now recognized as a national holiday. “So this (observing Juneteenth) is just the beginning towards moving towards other issues that the country can recognize as part of our history.” We’re looking to get more steam from a state level,” said Cloves Campbell, the publisher of Arizona Informant Newspaper, which has been organizing an annual Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration in Phoenix for almost 20 years. Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the day when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and told enslaved Black people there that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation – which had been signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863.

On Sunday, churchgoers will celebrate Juneteenth during their worship services. Members of the clergy reflect on the role of the church and the holiday ...

"Our faith requires us to be active in restoring and repairing the wrongs that stem from America's original sin of slavery." In Galveston, Texas — the birthplace of Juneteenth — congregants at Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church will begin their service at 11 a.m. and end the day with a freedom march. We call that End Slavery for Good, ensuring that no one be subject to slavery, even as punishment for a crime," says the Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi. Fields says that "they were believing God to liberate them" – not Abraham Lincoln nor their slave masters. Juneteenth is also called Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day and Freedom Day. It's the most recent new federal holiday, since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was introduced in 1983. Generations later, this hymn is still sung to remember how it felt to be a slave and to continue to seek equality and justice.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation on the celebration of Juneteenth in Iowa Monday, in its second year recognized as national holiday.

Ankeny hosted its second Juneteenth Festival this year on Saturday. Des Moines public libraries held several events with Iowa Juneteenth organizers on the history and celebration of the event. Iowa has celebrated Juneteenth for more than two decades longer than the nation at large. “I’m deeply grateful that it’s working so tirelessly to ensure Juneteenth has the prominent place in our collective memory that it deserves,” Reynolds said.

Union Gen. Gordon Granger set up his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, and famously signed an order June 19, 1865, "All slaves are free.

"We want the Juneteenth museum to help eliminate the scourge of modern slavery and human trafficking," Jackson says during a tour of the building. "Our city puts out a very positive image, but there is a dark side to Galveston," says Eugene Lewis, retired Galveston police commander and early Juneteenth booster. He built his own house and the houses of other emancipated people in town. "It was the men with the guns. Until recently, the structure was headquarters for a Texas homebuilder until earlier this year when June 19 Museum Inc., based in Washington D.C., acquired it. "Consistent with the American culture it's already being commercialized," she says. What was so unique about the Juneteenth Order that it is now a federal holiday? It was a church affair." Black people could go to the beaches there but we could not celebrate anyplace else." "It was not a piece of paper that freed enslaved people of Texas," he says. It was a family affair. With the new Juneteenth federal holiday, signed into law last year by President Biden, the city hopes it will also become a must-visit site of essential American history.

Juneteenth celebrations should acknowledge that the 13th Amendment, not the Emancipation Proclamation, abolished slavery nationwide.

But even as I appreciate the symbolic value of our new federal holiday—the first since King Day— if we hope to uphold the ideals of racial equality and, dare I say, democracy we must appreciate the fact that, in origin, Juneteenth did not actually commemorate the formal abolition of slavery in the United States. Why? Well, no matter what you’ve heard, history does not repeat itself. The same influences that go to keep down and crush down the rights of the poor black man bear down and oppress the poor white laboring man.” If one considers the 13th Amendment’s framers’ motivations, it should be clear that its aims did not include opening the door to the return of chattel slavery. Consequently, the 13th Amendment’s abolition of slavery and “involuntary servitude” reflected so-called Radical Republicans’ desire to establish fairer terms of work for the laboring classes. Since the North paid a steep price for its war against the southern “slaveocracy,” northerners would not have abolished slavery only to lay the groundwork for its reintroduction. But even as Republicans saw slavery as an impediment to the nation’s economic development and slaveholders as despots with little regard for democracy (a conclusion many white northerners came to during the political crises of the 1850s), they believed that the federal government did not have the authority to abolish slavery. The implications of Lincoln’s proposed containment policy were clear to the leaders of the slaveholding states. To be sure, cotton slavery was very profitable at the time of Lincoln’s election in 1860; however, slavery’s profitability hinged in no small part on the institution’s physical expansion—owed to cotton production’s exhaustion of the soil. Some, likewise, contend that this provision permitted, if not incentivized, the evolution of bound labor from a system of chattel slavery (a system in which slaves and their offspring were the permanent property of individuals who profited off their labor) to a system in which states profited directly from enslaving black convicts. Ignorance of Juneteenth is owed to two matters: In 1865, Juneteenth had no significance for African Americans outside of Texas, because it does not actually commemorate the abolition of chattel slavery in the United States. Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary “13th” popularized this claim, although, as historian Daryl Michael Scott has argued in his excellent “ The Scandal of Thirteentherism,” the claim dates back to the prison rights movement of the 1960s. Juneteenth was first celebrated in Texas on June 19, 1866, to commemorate the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas. When reflecting on Juneteenth in his controversial Netflix special, “The Closer,” comedian Dave Chappelle stressed, correctly, that President Lincoln had declared slaves in Galveston, Texas free long before they had received word of the presidential promulgation.

African drummers, music, interactive games, educational sessions, food and more were part of Vanderbilt University's annual Juneteenth celebration.

Faculty, staff and students enjoy a festive Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom around Rand Hall. Food trucks, exhibits, rhythmic sounds of Nature’s Drummers and games were enjoyed by all attendees. Faculty, staff and students enjoy a festive Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom around Rand Hall. Food trucks, exhibits, rhythmic sounds of Nature’s Drummers and games were enjoyed by all attendees. Faculty, staff and students enjoy a festive Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom around Rand Hall. Food trucks, exhibits, rhythmic sounds of Nature’s Drummers and games were enjoyed by all attendees. Faculty, staff and students enjoy a festive Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom around Rand Hall. Food trucks, exhibits, rhythmic sounds of Nature’s Drummers and games were enjoyed by all attendees. Faculty, staff and students enjoy a festive Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom around Rand Hall. Food trucks, exhibits, rhythmic sounds of Nature’s Drummers and games were enjoyed by all attendees. Vendors from Black-owned businesses provided food and drink at the celebration.

On June 19, 1865, shortly after the fall of the last Confederate forces, U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas issued General Order No.

He oversees the DON’s office of equal employment opportunity; sexual assault prevention program office; naval education; manpower, analytics, and human resources systems; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and DON’s lifecycle management of senior executives across the department. He says Juneteenth calls us to recognize both the sacrifices made and the remarkable achievements, so that our country can move forward fully mindful of its past. In fact, after nearly 250 years of slavery in America, Juneteenth was followed by brutally enforced segregation, Jim Crow, and legally enforced inequality. As the DON’s chief diversity officer, Hogue leads the implementation of an enterprise-level DON diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy, synchronizes key policies and initiatives, and ensures alignment with the office of the Secretary of Defense. “Juneteenth is an opportunity for us to remind ourselves and each other that emancipation came too late for some,” said Hogue. “Let us remember those who were enslaved, here and elsewhere, so that we might understand just a sliver of the joy that Juneteenth offers.” In observance of Juneteenth, the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Manpower and Reserve Affairs released a video message from the Department of the Navy’s Chief Diversity Officer Mr. Robert D. Hogue.

This year, the Brooklyn Museum held its second annual Honor Juneteenth celebration inviting New Yorkers to celebrate Black liberation, community, and creativity ...

This year, the Brooklyn Museum held its second annual Honor Juneteenth celebration inviting New Yorkers to celebrate Black liberation, community, and creativity with a full day of activities. On June 19, 1865, roughly two months after the end of the Civil War (and over two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation), Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, where they informed the enslaved African Americans there that they were finally free. The date, also known as Freedom Day, would go on to be celebrated by Americans for over a century thereafter.

The museum will be housed in a 50000 sq. ft timber structure on Fort Worth's Southside designed by Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group.

The timber-based design for the building will rise from a rectangular footprint, with an array of gabled rooftops all converging toward a central, open-air courtyard. "As a Black architect, this project is one of the most rewarding experiences of my career." The forthcoming museum will rise on the grounds that have long housed Lee’s Fort Worth Juneteenth Museum on the city’s Southside. The existing museum building will be demolished to make way for the new building.

Juneteenth is actually June 19th, but this most recent Federal Holiday, is celebrated this year on June 20th. Although the federal holiday is new, ...

However, on the trademark side, things have been more active — particularly recently. Trademark filings remain a good indicator of what’s on peoples’ minds — and right now its Juneteenth. Although the federal holiday is new, first recognized in 2021, it had been recognized ever since the June 19, 1865, event it commemorates.

The Executive Director of The North Carolina Apple Festival is facing criticism for a social media post that referred to Juneteenth as a made-up holiday.

“When I read it, I thought of ways to help him in a peaceful way,” she said in an email. Most of the 'Old Fat White Men' success has been built from the individuals and their families for which we celebrate this holiday!" “I certainly have learned my lesson and a lot about Juneteenth over the past day." I was trying to be sarcastic and I guess it didn’t work. Just when is the ‘Old Fat White Man Day’? I really want to celebrate this day.” David Nicholson, a former Henderson County Manager, has apologized after receiving backlash for a post he made following a visit Monday to a closed post office.