What’s the Right Way to Mark Juneteenth? The Newest US Holiday Is Confusing Americans • Iowa Capital Dispatch

What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest U.S. holiday is confusing Americans

Activist and retired educator Opal Lee, 94, known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth, speaks with U.S. President Joe Biden after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law in the East Room of the White House on June 17, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. The United States’ newest federal ho…

Jeffersonville Library holds Juneteenth program

JEFFERSONVILLE – Juneteenth is one of the newest federal holidays celebrated in the United States. It commemorates the day the last of the enslaved African Americans in Texas were set free on June 19, 1865. That was during the aftermath…

What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans • Iowa Capital Dispatch

Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie Yates sit in a decorated buggy for Juneteenth 1908 in front of Houston’s Antioch Baptist Church. (Photo courtesy of the African American Library at The Gregory School, Houston Public Library)The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestl…

What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans • Kentucky Lantern

An emancipation day celebration in the coal mining town of Jenkins in Kentucky’s mountains was captured in this undated historic photograph from the early 20th century. (University of Kentucky) The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the…

Juneteenth Holiday Can Bring Unity

If you wondered why the banks were closed on Thursday, it’s because of Juneteenth. Many people still are figuring out the meaning of Juneteenth and how to celebrate the newest federal holiday. The black community has long celebrated this day, which points back to June 19,1865. On that date, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, to tell slaves the Civil War had ended and they were free. It made the Emancipation Proclamation a reality. “It …

What’s the right way to mark Juneteenth? The newest US holiday is confusing Americans – BG Independent News

By TIMOTHY WELBECK Ohio Capital Journal The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, Americans have wrestled with what to make of the holiday.What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? Should holiday observers attend barbecues and cookouts? Should Juneteenth’s observance