Social Justice Resources: Juneteenth

Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America
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There are just four states that don’t recognize the Juneteenth holiday: Hawaii, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana
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Six Black museums in the US have joined forces to create the a website. June 22nd, 2020, on their Web site the group premiered a film "Juneteenth: Justice, Freedom, Democracy" in celebration of the 155th anniversary of word reaching the last people being held in slavery in the United States that they were free

Juneteenth facts by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States

Juneteenth (a portmanteau of June and nineteenth), also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, and Cel-Liberation Day, is an American holiday celebrated annually on June 19. It commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union general Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas, that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free

Becky Elzy and Alberta Bradford: Spiritual Folklorists

Ralph Ellison’s “Juneteenth”

The Birth of Juneteenth; Voices of the Enslaved

Abraham Lincoln’s initial draft of the Emancipation Proclamation is among the treasures contained in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress

When a Former Enslaved Person Debated a Former Confederate in the House of Representatives

Born in Slavery: Portraits and Narratives of Formerly Enslaved People

Warner Music Group, Sony Music, Spotify and more plan to commemorate the June 19 holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S.

U.S. National Archives Unearths Original Juneteenth Order

President Biden signed legislation into law on Thursday, 6.17.21 establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day -- a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States

The Project on the History of Black Writing (HBW) has been in the forefront of research and inclusion efforts in higher education for over 30 years.

Brought to Kansas City in 1980 by Horace M Peterson III, founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America INC, Juneteenth is an annual heritage celebration and platform that celebrates the emancipation of enslaved Africans in America and provides the backdrop to pay tribute to the founders of our community. Description from the website.

Lawrence food entrepreneur Amber Brown is opening a community kitchen called The Commissary on on Juneteenth

Lawrence community celebrates Juneteenth

Reflections on Juneteenth_KU Chancellor Douglas A. Girod M.D.