Sunday, June 19, 2022 — Building a Culture of Reparation: Juneteenth National Forum on Reparations: An inspirational, educational, mobilizing, organizing gathering. Convened by the Global Circle of Reparations and Healing…
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As we celebrate Juneteenth, our fight for racial equality continues. By Kaitlin Byrd, Harper’s Bazaar — As a Black woman, Juneteenth is a celebration for my ancestors. It is a chance to remember…
Holding on to our history in these days of cultural appropriation makes sense. By Alexandra Jane, The Root — By now, we’ve all heard of the backlash Walmart so deservingly received after…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Seba Malcolm said it, we saw it and history has proved it. Indeed, he taught that “of all our studies, history is best qualified to…
Monday, June 21, 2021 — On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor talks with callers. Topic The Juneteenth Holiday, Reparations and HR-40 Plus The…
Juneteenth is an opportunity to recover the possibilities of history. By Kerri Greenidge, New Republic — In the early 2000s, before the levees broke in New Orleans, it was still…
By Julianne Malveaux — High props go to 94-year-old Opal Lee, the Texas woman determined to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Thanks to her efforts and those of others like…
While recognition of Juneteenth is important, it’s just the beginning of a long road to true Black freedom. By Nicholas Powers, Truthout — “All slaves are free,” Union troops shouted. On…
By Derek Major, Black Enterprise — Hours after the House passed the bill and less than a day after returning from his first trip abroad as President, Joe Biden has…
It’s worth exploring if Congress and the President just inadvertently opened up fresh new legal avenues for reparations by passing Juneteenth and calling Tulsa a “massacre”. By Thurston Renrick, The…
By Andre M. Perry and Rashawn Ray, The Brookings Institution — There is a widespread belief that reparations for Black people is too tough a pill to swallow for most…
By Darryl Pinckney, NYREV — I will look for you in the stories of new kings. Juneteenth isn’t mentioned in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois or Carter Woodson, the founder of The Journal of Negro History. I haven’t yet come across a description of the first Juneteenth celebrations equivalent to Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s report of the ceremonies for the Emancipation Proclamation as it was read aloud on Port Royal…
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