We rose to be you, we rose to be me,Above everything expected, we rose To become the knowledge we never knew,We rose Dream, we didAct we must Kristina Kay,We Rose © 1996, Juneteenth.com We Rose was written by artist and writer Kristina Kay Robinson at the age of 9. In the...
"Juneteenth is like a Black family reunion." Melorra Green, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, works to support San Francisco's annual celebration in her role as the co-executive director of the African American Art & Culture Complex. She says the holiday reminds her of family. “Juneteen...
As part of our U.S. office Juneteenth program, we invitedLeigh Frazier, Deputy District Attorneyin Santa Clara County, to share her thoughts on race and equality from the view of an African American criminal prosecutor. Leigh talked about her family’s background, time where she has seen a...
June 19, 1865, “Juneteenth,” was the day freedom finally came to the enslaved people of Texas, and is now celebrated as our second American independence day. But African Americans in eastern North Carolina, in counties already occupied by Federal troops, heard the news of the Emancipation ...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too by The Conversation June 19, 2024 Kris Manjapra, Tufts University The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black...
Now that Juneteenth is recognized as a national holiday, advocates are weighing in on how Americans should mark the occasion and what the day should mean going forward.
I feel like part of my identity is being monetized, reduced to a commodity that anyone and everyone can buy. This phenomenon has been given a name:rainbow washing. We’ve seen similar appropriations of Black History Month and Juneteenth. ...
Juneteenth and James Patterson This week’s d’var Torah on B’haalotecha and lifting up marginalized voices. I know that social media gets a bad rap, but every once in a while, something amazing happens on Twitter. This might be because my feed is a carefully curated Venn diagram of ...
June 14, 2023 Belong We have a responsibility to build a safe and accepting world – Leanne’s Pride Story June 12, 2023 Belong Celebrating Juneteenth at Qualtrics June 9, 2023 From the Q-mmunity Turning data into actionable insights – ZZ ...
prompting companies to speak out in support of racial justice. They’re sharinglengthy statements declaring “black lives matter”to staff and the public,pledging millionsto social justice organizations, andmarking Juneteenthas a company holiday. Leaders areapologizing and resigningover problematic comp...