From Houston to Queens, cities across the country are honoring Juneteenth with festivals, concerts, parades, and community gatherings rooted in Black joy and remembrance.
By: Shelby Stewart
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We should stand up for those working to register and mobilize voters and ensure they have the best legal advice and follow the rules. bit.ly/43G11Ub
“So, it’s just — it’s just an opportunity to really just kind of blow things wide open and go, “Well, this is another huge part of the story that hasn’t been told.”
Also let me recommend historian Annette Gordon Reed’s “On Juneteenth” for your summer reading list. I felt vindicated reading that Reed, a Texan, always saw Juneteenth as a Texas celebration. Her dive into the complicated history of Texas, slavery, integration & this holiday is riveting.
a defining factor in my generation
the damnable ‘respectability politics’
and they still won’t leave us tf alone
My son just asked why Netherlands has so many Black people on the team
I told him we are everywhere.
For America's 250th birthday, see her true colors.
Filmed in Super 35 by Ernest Dickerson and enlarged to 70mm for select first-run engagements in 1992, Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated, Denzel Washington-starring MALCOLM X screens on 70mm 🎞️ on Saturday, July 4 and Tuesday, July 7.
🎟️: filmlinc.org/70
