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.
Sherrilyn Ifill
“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.”
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
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
A 'Song For My Father' www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
For Black women farmers, tending the land is ancestral and healing
Black farmers have lost millions of acres since the early 1900s. Today a generation of growers is working to rebuild and reconnect communities to the land.
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My son just asked why Netherlands has so many Black people on the team
I told him we are everywhere.
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
#BlackskyNews #Juneteenth
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and they still won’t leave us tf alone
a defining factor in my generation
the damnable ‘respectability politics’
Shana V. White (she/her)
Brennan Center
mahalianem
Denise Oliver-Velez
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)
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Horace Silver’s tribute to his father has become a jazz standard covered by scores of artists.
Black farmers have lost millions of acres since the early 1900s. Today a generation of growers is working to rebuild and reconnect communities to the land.
19thnews.org
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative is a clear abuse of power.
www.brennancenter.org
#Juneteenth
Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera "Omar" About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said.
#Pinks #MomSky #ProudBlue
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