Opinion

Can We Admit Mainstreaming Juneteenth Has Been a Disaster?

NO SOUL

Nearly two years after being nationally recognized, the celebration of Black American emancipation has turned into a misguided holiday of performativity.

Ernest Owens
Ernest Owens
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Ernest Owens

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