‘We Don’t Wait to Be Celebrated’: What Juneteenth Means This Year • Michigan Advance

'We don’t wait to be celebrated': What Juneteenth means this year

The president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History on rest, resistance and remembering. By� Errin Haines �for The 19th Thursday marks the first national ...

‘We don’t wait to be celebrated’: What Juneteenth means this year • Michigan Advance

Juneteenth flag flies along Livernois Avenue in Detroit | Ken Coleman photo This story was originally reported by Errin Haines of The 19th. Meet Errin and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Thursday marks the first national observance under President Donald Trump of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States that became a federal holiday in 2021. This year, it comes as Trump’s presidency has…

‘We don’t wait to be celebrated’: What Juneteenth means this year

This story was originally reported by Errin Haines of The 19th. Meet Errin and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Thursday marks the first national observance under President Donald Trump of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the…

Juneteenth brings reflection on progress, headwinds - The New Bedford Light

BOSTON — Lawmakers reflected on the significance of Juneteenth on Wednesday, promising that Massachusetts will fight for and support Black Americans facing headwinds from new federal challenges. “We have come a long way, and it’s our turn at this point to have the baton in our hand. And if we don’t, and we don’t use the power we have today, after all the sacrifices that were made in the past, shame on us,” Russell Holmes, the longest-serving mem…

Celebrating Juneteenth and What it Means

President Abraham Lincoln had “freed” enslaved people with the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. But it took two and a half years before the executive order was really enforced. June 19, 1865. Let’s sing and dance this historic day, as well as think long and hard about what the day itself signifies.  And few could say it better than Nina Simone. What’s freedom mean? Same thing it is to you – you tell me. (No, you tell me.)It’s just a…