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Taking photos in a nearby town, I stumbled on this Juneteenth celebration. The owner of the barbershop asked me to hang around and take photos of the day.
The town has a large Hispanic community and the celebration was a real melting pot of ethnicities. The overarching theme of the day was love, joy and acceptance, not because organizers made it a slogan, it is just the way people were meeting each other. It was the most joyous community festival I have ever attended, and I am so happy I got to be a part of it.
Taking photos in a nearby town, I stumbled on this Juneteenth celebration. The owner of the barbershop asked me to hang around and take photos of the day.
The town has a large Hispanic community and the celebration was a real melting pot of ethnicities. The overarching theme of the day was love, joy and acceptance, not because organizers made it a slogan, it is just the way people were meeting each other. It was the most joyous community festival I have ever attended, and I am so happy I got to be a part of it.
Taking photos in a nearby town, I stumbled on this Juneteenth celebration. The owner of the barbershop asked me to hang around and take photos of the day.
The town has a large Hispanic community and the celebration was a real melting pot of ethnicities. The overarching theme of the day was love, joy and acceptance, not because organizers made it a slogan, it is just the way people were meeting each other. It was the most joyous community festival I have ever attended, and I am so happy I got to be a part of it.
juneteenth...june 19, 1865
'black people...a central thread in the history of the United States...a challenge to its democracy...' W. E. B. Du Bois
never forget Tulsa--yesteryear...today...and particularly TOMORROW!
#blacklivesmatter
Oreo Shake at the Sugar Land Jazz Festival.
Never heard of Juneteenth before moving to Houston in 1971, thought for a long time it was only a Texas thing. Became a national holiday under Biden. Here’s a history:
open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-18-2025...
Churchill said Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after exhausting all other options.
Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue!
It's insane to me to think that it took two years after the Civil War for all enslaved to be free. Even more insane, it is taking almost 200 years after the Civil War for African American humans to be treated with respect and to have true freedom.
True freedom means walking down the street and not worrying about being a victim of a hate crime. True freedom means having the same level of health care if you get sick. True freedom means having a richness in your environment that includes quality schools and food. True freedom means you are not imprisoned for profit for crimes you may have not committed or drugs the police planted on you. (And I must assert here that I view most prisons but especially for profit prisons as just modern day slavery). True freedom means you work hard and you get the same job and same pay scale as someone who is white and you aren't told by the boss you're just a "diversity hire" or "helping them reach their quota." True freedom means you are entitled to the same rights and treatment and opportunities as every white citizen.
We must do better. We have wasted far too many years living in an oppressive state of being. Audre Lorde said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” I would say human. And, when one human is not free, neither are we.
Above: beautiful humans watching from above as the Black Trans Lives Matter march passes through.
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Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth Celebration in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA. Thousands of people gathered together for a day of celebration in which in 1865 did slaves in Texas found out they were free, however the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln was in 1863. This moment is even more powerful this year, because the entire world has been in an uproar to fight back against the injustices from police brutality against black people. People want change and they have time and time again shown up in numbers to make it known, this time is no different.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is a holiday in the United States honoring African American heritage by commemorating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S. State of Texas in 1865. Celebrated on June 19, the term is a portmanteau of June and nineteenth.
A panel from the Texas African American History Memorial in the grounds of the Texas State Capitol in Austin commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the state on June 19th, 1865. The monument by sculptor Ed Dwight was installed in 2016.
Light projections in celebration of Juneteenth on the National Cathedral, by Reclaiming the Monument
I must admit that while growing up, whether it was due to living out of the US for extended times while growing up, having family members that mostly came from upstate or simply it being an area that my schools never covered, I didn't quite know the history of Juneteenth. Rather I knew *that* it existed but not *why* it existed and it wasn't until fairly recent adult years that I've looked into what it all meant.
This on my part seems mainly a combination of unforseen coincidence but as we take in the day/event this year it cannot be underlined enough that while the measure to make this a federal holiday came within roughly 72 hours many black people are facing much more serious issues such as voter suppression and that in several states, including mine right now, measures to ban critical race theory are being put in place. This both dovetails with this holiday's origins - wherein texan slaves finally learned they were free people nearly three years after everyone else in the country - and is a contradiction as many children will now have this day off but not be permitted to learn *why* they do.
(Sidebar to non black allies - I've seen questions as to how commemorate the day and for that I would say you should both seek out education about this day and seek out ways to help us fight against & overturn these set backs)
In any case, I'm still happy and detemined to celebrate Juneteenth properly by letting myself rest and hope all my other black mutuals are enjoying themselves on this day too! 😘