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Blaze Engulfs Former Juneteenth Museum Property

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie January 16, 2023January 16, 2023

“I feel like my past is getting away from me,” said Opal Lee, who founded the institution 20 years ago. She said the collection was unharmed.

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A 50,000-Square-Foot Juneteenth Museum Is Coming to Texas

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie June 17, 2022June 21, 2022

Opal Lee, who helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday, is a founding board member, and her granddaughter Dione Sims will be the museum’s director.

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Meaningful Events to Honor Juneteenth in New York City

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu June 16, 2022June 17, 2022

From Harlem to Brooklyn, from joyful dance to quiet reflection, here are eight ways to observe Juneteenth and recognize the enduring repercussions of slavery.

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Indiana Museum Apologizes for Offering a “Juneteenth Watermelon Salad”

by Sarah Rose Sharp June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

The watermelon is associated with a painful history of racist tropes against Black Americans.

Posted inArt

The Fault Lines of Freedom, From Juneteenth to Independence Day

Avatar photo by Crystal Z Campbell July 3, 2020June 30, 2022

Solidarity gestures are trending but as we move from one “Independence Day” to another, will they be accompanied by structural change?

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Two Poems on Liberation by Rosamond S. King

Avatar photo by Rosamond King June 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Rosamond S. King, a Brooklyn-based poet, is a TriniGambianAmerican, has been publishing poetry since 1994, and won a Lamda Literary Award in 2018.

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What We Can Learn From a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

John Wilson’s 1952 mural “The Incident,” is a salient meditation on the horrors of lynching and though physically lost, the mural endures in archival images, preliminary sketches, and studies.

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How Black Artists in Texas Demonstrate the Spirit of Juneteenth

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir June 21, 2020November 5, 2020

For better or worse, words like “proud,” “unapologetic,” and “resilient” have come to define Texans, and these words and this attitude also define a spectrum of Black artists who are from, or have lived in, Texas.

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Remembering Juneteenth

Avatar photo by Deborah Roberts June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

I learned to love Juneteenth long before I became aware of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. I think my father was his happiest on that day; he permitted himself to do whatever he wanted on Freedom Day.

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About the Black Skin We Live In

Avatar photo by Cherise Smith June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

As Juneteenth approaches, I’ve been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.

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A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino June 19, 2020November 5, 2020

This week, for a special Juneteenth edition, we’ve invited Black artists in Texas to reflect on quarantining from their studios.

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Commemorating Juneteenth? Here Are a Few Black-Organized Events to Support

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell June 18, 2020November 5, 2020

As the Black liberation holiday is being embraced by the mainstream, it feels important to note that actions (and dollars) speak louder than words. Here are a few Black-led organizations to support on June 19 and beyond.

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