Juneteenth
“So every year, in mid-June, you can expect a federal holiday now to usher in crime and violence into America's inner cities," one Newsmax host grumbled on Monday night.
We don’t need your Juneteenth-branded ice cream, corporate America. Put your money where your signaling is, and actually lift up Black communities.
Rather than giving employees the holiday off, Amazon is promoting staff swag and “dress-up week”—a decision some workers and union activists call deeply insulting.
Garnell Whitfield Jr., who lost his mother in the Buffalo massacre, is among locals calling on the country’s leaders to do more on race relations and gun violence this Juneteenth.
It’s a day to remember the plight and emancipation of the Texas freedmen. The U.S. should get its own national Emancipation Day.
To create the freedom it’s promised, America must liberate itself from many of the lies we have long told ourselves.
President Joe Biden signed a new bill into law on Thursday afternoon, acknowledging the significance of June 19, the end of slavery in the United States.